First Nations to study viability of Ring of Fire road – The Globe and Mail
Mar. 01 2015 The Canadian government is helping study whether a road to the Ring of Fire mineral belt in northern Ontario is viable. The $785,000 government-funded study to be…
Tax Season 2015: First Nations pay more tax than you think – CBC
Mar 02, 2015 Fewer than half of all aboriginal people qualify for tax exemptions – and even less can actually use them There’s a common misconception in Canada that aboriginal…
Uranium mine proposal in Nunavut spurs debate about caribou herd – The Globe and Mail
Mar. 01 2015 Huli Tagoona was just a girl the first time uranium miners proposed to develop a massive deposit of the radioactive metal near her home town of Baker…
Federal and Ontario governments pay for study on how to ignite the Ring of Fire – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Mar 1, 2015 By Adam Miller THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO _ Some of Canada’s most remote and impoverished First Nations communities isolated within northern Ontario’s so called Ring…
Feds to reopen herring fishery despite objections by First Nations … – The Vancouver Observer
Feb 28th, 2015 Feds to reopen herring fishery despite objections by First Nations and scientists Conservative Fishing Minister reopened the herring fisheries against the views of federal scientists, a court…
Ottawa, Queen’s Park fund Ring of Fire road study – NorthernLife.ca
Mar 01, 2015 Will spend $732K in a First Nations-led initiative First Nations in Ontario’s Far North are being empowered to have a say on a future road to reach…
Investing in emerging Indigenous reporters – JHR
19-year-old Cree reporter Jaydon Flett may soon become a household name. She’s not only the most recent journalist to complete JHR’s Emerging Reporters internship at APTN, but she’s now their…
PDAC: The Show is On! – InvestorIntel
March 1, 2015 In the first week of March every year, 30,000 people from around the world and from every industry possible meet in Toronto for four days. Add alcohol,…
Five stories in Canada we’re watching – Macleans.ca
February 27, 2015 Feb. 27: A meeting in Ottawa on missing and murdered aboriginal women Five stories in the news today, Feb. 27, from The Canadian Press: POLITICIANS TO MEET…
Martinuk: Money alone won’t solve First Nations’ problems – Calgary Herald
February 27, 2015 Today is the highly anticipated roundtable discussion between Canada’s aboriginal leaders and top-level representatives from provincial, territorial and federal governments. The primary purpose, ostensibly, is to address the…
