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When Yukon University officially opens in Whitehorse this spring, it will become Canada’s first university north of 60° latitude. As an institution for the North and by the North, it will also feature a mandate based upon a unique collaboration with local First Nations.
At the mouth of the Great Whale River sits the communities of Whapmagoostui and Kuujjuarapik, where the Cree and Inuit sides have very different social systems, languages and even police jurisdictions.
Almost a year to the day after his passing at the age of 81, the Eastmain-1 hydroelectric dam and generating station were renamed for former Quebec Premier Bernard Landry in a celebration that brought together leadership from the Cree Nation and Quebec on November 4.
According to Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Chief Ghislain Picard, Montreal’s renaming of Amherst Street with the Mohawk word Atateken is “significant” because it strays away from Quebec’s historical treatment of Indigenous people as “not very dignified.”
Back in 2018, for the first time in the city’s history, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) released data regarding street checks to independent researchers
A champion of the environment, Deputy Grand Chief Mandy Gull is campaigning for a styrofoam ban in Eeyou Istchee because of the long-term impact it has on the land.
Members of the Eeyou Eenou Police Force (EEPF) hope a new union contract will help better protect them from the risks that come with their duties.
While another fall moose hunt is in full swing at La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve, this year’s visitors will notice an increased presence of the park’s other inhabitants – the Algonquins of Barriere Lake.
Though she wouldn’t know what it really meant until she was a legal adult, Neecha Dupuis’ childhood was marked by a desire to go home.
Carcajou is a new summer training program for Indigenous people run by the Canadian Army – and which now includes three young Cree recruits from Mistissini and Waskaganish
