By Craig Wong THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA- Business headlines in 2023 saw a housing crisis and the fight against inflation take centre stage while the job market proved to be stronger than expected. Housing and the cost of living will likely remain at the forefront in 2024, as will central ...

Cargojet Inc. says it has renewed a partnership with Arctic-focused airline Canadian North to deliver cargo to the region. Mississauga, Ont. based Cargojet says that under the deal, it will be the exclusive provider for air cargo from Winnipeg and Ottawa to Iqaluit, while Canadian North will continue to distribute ...

 By Brian Williams  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Construction began around 6:30 a.m. Friday morning, and by 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon, a new home is expected to be completed for a family from Oneida Nation of the Thames. Imagine Build is an organization working alongside Oneida Nation of the Thames to ...

HALIFAX NS- Halifax is taking the first steps toward designating a Mi’kmaq seat on its municipal council. The move is something that’s been in discussion for years after hearing from First Nations in the Halifax area that a Mi’kmaq representative should be added to council, Indigenous community liaison and councillor ...

 By Alessia Passafiume THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA- A Federal Court judge has verbally approved a landmark $23-billion settlement that will see Ottawa compensate more than 300,000 First Nations children and their families over chronic underfunding of on-reserve child-welfare services. The settlement comes more than 15 years after the Assembly of ...

By Mike Stimpson  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A year after publicly disclosing a confidential agreement between Grand Council Treaty #3 and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation Chief Jeffrey Copenace remains against a proposed “deep geological repository” for nuclear waste. “I’m firmly against,” Copenace said in an ...

By Pauline Kerr  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter BROCKTON- Brockton’s commemoration of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Orange Shirt Day, on Sept. 30, went a step further than acknowledging the importance of telling the true stories of the devastating abuses of the residential school system, and other abuses ...

 By Sam Laskaris  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Teling Our Story, a four-part docuseries about Indigenous people in the north and eastern Canada, is now available for free streaming on CBC Gem. “It’s to rectify the one-sided history we learn, and that history we learn at school,” said Abenaki director Kim ...