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Blackwater Now Toiling In Slovakia
Judd Blackwater’s professional hockey career continues to take him to various parts of the world.
Blackwater, a 28-year-old forward who is from the Blood Tribe in Alberta, is a much travelled player who has suited up for 12 different squads during his pro career.
This year alone Blackwater has already played for two teams…
Though he’s just 11, Samuel Assinewai is gearing up to represent Canada in an international hockey competition.
Assinewai, who is Ojibwe, was selected to represent his country at the inaugural Russian World Hockey Challenge. The tournament will be held in Moscow from May 5 to May 9.
This event will include teams with players born between 2001 through 2005.
Assinewai, a…
Partnership to help with high cost of food
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Lac Seul First Nation and Creewest GP Inc. (a for-profit corporation owned by First Nations in the northeast) have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a food distribution and logistics centre in Sioux Lookout to better provide food to northern communities.
The plan calls for a new…
The Canadian Aboriginal Aids Network is spreading awareness about the impact of the disease in the Aboriginal community.
Each year, CAAN holds a week-long series of events across Canada inviting key partners, members of parliament, and members of the public, to come to together to engage in discussion around issues faced by those affected by HIV and AIDs, and learn preventative measures…
Taking action to address the number of First Nations children living in poverty has been a constant battle with both the provincial and federal governments for British Columbia’s youth advocate.
“I’ve had a series of in-depth investigative reports over the years that have looked at the impact of poverty on children and families, especially First Nations children and families, and I…
It has been decades in the making but Debbie Brisebois still can’t believe it’s officially here.
On Dec. 2, the Nunavut Media Arts Centre had its official grand opening in Iqaluit. The 8,000-square-foot building is located in the core of the business and government district.
“It feels totally amazing,” said Brisebois, executive director for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation.…
Three women stood shoulder to shoulder, each carrying eagle feathers, one wearing an “honouring our sisters” shirt, and announced that the new federal government was delivering on one of its campaign promises. Work for the national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls was beginning.
“The extent of crime against Indigenous women and girls is not an Indigenous…
First Nations people who are still feeling the impacts of a catastrophic tailings dam breach are speaking out against a permit that will see more mine effluents released into a nearby lake.
The B.C. government granted Imperial Metals the two-year discharge permit for the Mount Polley mine northeast of Williams Lake in order to avoid overflow from an open storage pit.
The permit…
The statistics are sobering. But not surprising.
The RCMP recorded homicide rates for the first time in 2014 as they pertained to Aboriginal people. Nationally, 23 per cent of the 516 murder victims were Aboriginal, while one-third of those accused of murder were Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people account for only five per cent of the Canadian population.
“I’m saddened and it’s…
Canada’s Indigenous people had strong representation at the Paris climate change conference where 195 countries came together to negotiate a practical plan to deal with greenhouse gas emissions to slow down climate warming.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde accompanied Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and two federal ministers in the four-person Canadian delegation…
The Speech from the Throne on Dec. 4 was short on pages and details, but for Indigenous people it underscored the promises made during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election campaign.
Trudeau reiterated his commitment to “undertake to renew, nation-to-nation, the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples, one based on recognition of rights, respect, co-operation and…
December 9, 2015
One of the first actions taken by the Notley government when elected was to throw NDP support behind the call for a national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women.
The federal government has made that call.
Throughout his election campaign, Justin Trudeau said the government would convene a national inquiry. Yesterday, the Liberals honoured…
December 4, 2015. Governor General David Johnstone outlined commitments by the Liberal government to Indigenous people in the Speech from the Throne. Justin Trudeau pledged to undertake a renewed nation-to-nation relationship with Indigenous people during his election campaign, as well as undertake an inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women…
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
This past weekend, the Samson Cree Nation was rocked by violence. Kirsten Cutknife, 20, was found dead in a residence on Nov. 28. Charged with second degree murder in her homicide is Joshua Crier, 19. Crier is also charged with assaulting Zoe Littlechild, 20, with a weapon. Littlechild was not seriously injured. All three young people are from…
Theresa Morrisseau hadn’t really thought much about cancer in the first 59 years of her life.
Growing up in Rocky Bay in an Ojibwe speaking home, health resources and education were scarce. If she was sick, she’d go see a doctor in nearby Beardmore on the one day a week the doctor came there, but in between episodes she didn’t pay it much mind.
“I’m a very stubborn person,” the…