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By Isaac Nay  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Before her jewelry venture blossomed into an Indigenous business consultation company, Ashley Clark was about to launch a line of sterling silver pieces. Then she saw an advertisement for a photography workshop at the ADAAWE Indigenous Business Hub in Ottawa. At the facility, ...

By Matt Simmons  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As Teresa Waddington proudly proclaimed LNG Canada is on track to wrap up construction in Kitimat, B.C., this year, the  room full of hundreds of attendees at the BC Natural Resources Forum  erupted in cheers. “We are 90 per cent complete, bringing  Canada’s ...

 By Susan Montoya Bryan And Ken Ritter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -A federal judge is being asked to issue a stop-work order on a $10 billion transmission line being built through a remote southeastern Arizona valley to carry wind-generated electricity to customers as far away as California. A ...

By Ian Bickis THE CANADIAN PRESS A First Nation-led financing model has reached $2 billion in loans issued as it works to close the economic and infrastructure gap between member nations and the rest of Canada. The First Nations Finance Authority is crossing the lending threshold a decade after issuing ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s doing something in Nunavut he rarely does in public, which is to reflect on his father. Trudeau is in Iqaluit to mark the signing of an agreement to hand over powers to the territorial government when it comes to their management of ...

By Jacqueline St. Pierre  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is slated to close negotiations on its deep geological repository (DGR) in late 2024. The NWMO has been in discussion concerning Canada’s 175-year-long plan to bury its nuclear waste since 2008, and the process of developing ...

     By Matteo Cimellaro  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For some First Nations, the choice between economic self-sufficiency and environmental and climate concerns has arrived at a crossroads as the Coastal GasLink pipeline nears operation, critics say. Coastal GasLink, the disputed pipeline opposed by Wet’suwet’en hereditary leadership, reached mechanical completion ...

By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Kebaowek First Nation is considering legal action now that the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has given the go ahead to Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to construct a Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF) for solid low-level radioactive waste at its Chalk River Laboratories site ...