Manitoba provides additional funding to support air services for remote communities
Ottawa – The Government of Canada is providing an additional $8.82 million to the Government of Manitoba to continue the support of essential air services…
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Deadline for National Indigenous Coaching Awards approaches
ONTARIO — The Aboriginal Sport Circle is committed to supporting sport that fosters the development of the whole individual. The National Indigenous Coaching Awards are…
Call for criminal investigation into deaths of children at the Mohawk Institute
Survivors of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford called for a criminal investigation today, saying over 50 children went missing while attending the…
Indigenous getaways and educational experiences in Ontario
With Indigenous communities all across the province and COVID-19 restrictions being lifted more each week, now is a good time to plan some educational visits to…
Six Nations moves to alert level green; bingo hall reopens
As Covid vaccination numbers rise and the community enters the loosest restrictions since the pandemic began, regular operations at the Six Nations Bingo Hall will…
Ceremony for Ontario’s new Indigenous Hub in Toronto
The Indigenous community in Toronto celebrated the ground breaking of a new Indigenous Hub in the city. The new Hub will help meet critical health…
Woodland Cultural Centre gets $9.4 million to renovate former residential school
Set against a backdrop of hundreds of stuffed toy bears, shoes and flowers, Amos Key Jr. Introduced himself in his traditional language. The very same…
B.C. provides funding to First Nation communities for residential school searches
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nation communities to help with searches for human remains at former…
Residents from four First Nations in Manitoba sent to Winnipeg due to wildfires
WINNIPEG — By the time Virginia Thomas left her home community of Bloodvein First Nation in eastern Manitoba on Monday evening, a nearby wildfire had…
Vandal damages memorial to unmarked student graves at Mohawk Institute
SIX NATIONS — The makeshift memorial on the steps of the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School on Six Nations territory was destroyed by a…
Six Nations man named candidate for People’s Party of Canada
BRANTFORD — The Brantford-Brant People’s Party of Canada has named a Six Nations man as candidate for the riding in the upcoming election. Cole Squire…
National Gallery of Canada offers free admission to Indigenous Peoples
OTTAWA — The National Gallery of Canada announced Monday that admission will be free for Indigenous Peoples when it reopens this week for the first…
Former Shingwauk Residential School declared National Historic Site
OTTAWA — Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the designation of the Former Shingwauk (Pronounced: Zhing-waak)…
Walleye or Pickerel, the great debate
National Go Fishing Day was June 18, a great day to find a stream, a lake or pond, bait your hook, cast your line and catch a…
Decolonizing one word at a time, CBC’s new Indigenous podcast
CBC launched “Telling Our Twisted Histories” in May. An 11-episode podcast series that reclaims Indigenous history by exploring 11 words whose meanings have been twisted…