Morning Brief: State of emergency in Ottawa – iPolitics
Feb 7, 2022 Today’s Morning Brief is brought to you by Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. The federal budget provides an opportunity for government to take key actions to build…
Opinion: Jeff Ward on driving change for Indigenous Peoples through technology – The Globe and Mail
Jeff Ward, who is Ojibwe and Métis, is the founder and chief executive officer of Animikii, an Indigenous technology company that creates digital products and provides website and software development…
‘We’re left behind’: Inuit mine worker blasts COVID-19 rules keeping him from job – Nunatsiaq News
Feb 4, 2022 For the better portion of the last two years, Rankin Inlet resident Kumanaa Autut has been at home instead of working at the Meadowbank mine. In his…
B.C. First Nations plan to appeal ruling to restore natural river flows 70 years later – CTV News
Feb. 4, 2022 VANCOUVER – Two First Nations say they will appeal parts of a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling released last month that rejected their bid for an injunction…
Alberta Indigenous leaders speak up against approach to Coutts border crossing protest and blockade – CBC
Feb 04, 2022 Leaders say there are glaring disparities between response to this protest and past Indigenous-led ones linda manyguns, associate vice-president of Indigenization and decolonization at Mount Royal University,…
It’s mining week in B.C. and First Nations are using the moment to call for more authority, consent – The Narwhal
Feb. 3, 2022 ‘B.C. laws for mineral tenure date back to the gold rush, to the time the province was emerging as a province — it’s ridiculous’ The BC First…
Bowman, First Nation and Métis leaders call for Dogar’s resignation over comments about Indigenous people – Daily Herald Tribune
Mayor Sandy Bowman and Indigenous leaders in the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo region are demanding Councillor Shafiq Dogar resign and are accusing him of saying Indigenous people come to Fort…
Three Indigenous chiefs disavow ‘freedom convoy’ and ceremonies taking place in Confederation Park – Ottawa Citizen
Feb 03, 2022 Three local Indigenous chiefs have disavowed the “freedom convoy” protesting in Ottawa and said in a press release the Algonquin Nation did not sanction Indigenous ceremonies taking…
Morning Brief: Committee calls GoFundMe to testify – iPolitics
Feb 4, 2022 Good morning, and happy Olympic Ceremony Friday. — Committee calls GoFundMe to testify: A parliamentary committee voted unanimously to call GoFundMe executives to testify about the crowdfunding…
Bearspaw First Nation purchases Clearwave Broadband – CFWE
February 3rd, 2022 Clearwave will continue to be based out of Edmonton The Bearspaw First Nation has made it’s first major acquisition since creating the Ozja Thiha Legacy Trust. On…
