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 ...
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Chief still ‘firmly against’ nuclear waste scheme
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 ...
Read More »Brockton hears the stories in First Nations voices
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 ...
Read More »In their own words and in their own languages, Indigenous peoples are Telling Our Story in new docuseries
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 ...
Read More »Squamish Nation announces big development plans for the North Shore and beyond
By Mina Kerr-Lazenby Local Journalism Initiative Reporter S?wx?wu7mesh ?xwumixw (Squamish Nation) has put forward ambitious plans to develop 350 acres of its land, with work primarily taking place on the North Shore. The plans focus on a pair of North Shore locations, including the Marine Drive area of Xwmelch’sten Capilano ...
Read More »Former Chair of the Northern and Remote Forum of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to takes advisory role with CN
CHALK RIVER, Ontario, March 21, 2023 — Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology laboratory, is pleased to announce that Madeleine Redfern, the former Chair of the Northern and Remote Forum of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, has agreed to return to CNL as a strategic advisor ...
Read More »$3.28 billion Indigenous led LNG project gets B.C. environmental certificate
VICTORIA-The Haisla First Nation on British Columbia’s northern coast has been granted a provincial environmental assessment certificate for a floating liquefied natural gas facility. The B.C. government says the nation, in partnership with Pembina Pipeline Corp., proposes to use electricity to operate the LNG facility and export terminal. The $3.28-billion ...
Read More »Ottawa says Kearl leaks harmful to wildlife; issues order to stop seepage
By Bob Weber THE CANADIAN PRESS Federal inspectors have ruled a release of oilsands wastewater from Imperial Oil Ltd.’s Kearl mine is harmful to wildlife and have ordered the company to take immediate action to stop seepage from a tailings pond. “Based on information enforcement officers have to date, the ...
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