Officials are closely monitoring the area upstream from the twin Cree and Inuit communities of Whapmagoostui and Kuujjuaraapik after at least one massive landslide occurred along the Great Whale River on the morning of April 22.
After raising concerns for decades about over-harvesting by sports hunters in La Verendrye wildlife reserve, Anishinabe chiefs reached an agreement-in-principle with the Quebec government April 2 that establishes a moratorium of at least one year on moose hunting.
Canada is in a punishing third wave of infections, even as vaccines continue to be administered at growing rates.
A rapid rise in new cases in the Quebec City and Gatineau areas led the Quebec government to close schools and all non-essential commerce in these regions March 32, while also bringing back the 8 pm-to-5 am curfew.
As is the case around the world, the economy in Eeyou Istchee has contracted during the Covid-19 pandemic – throwing revenues, jobs and development timetables into disarray.
As cases again begin to rise, the Cree Health Board (CHB) is warning about the rise in Covid-19 variants in Quebec and the rest of the country.
Covid-19 case numbers are rapidly declining across Quebec, though there is renewed worry as new variants are beginning to spread across the country, which the Cree Health Board (CHB) called “extremely contagious.”
Covid-19 case numbers are rapidly declining across Quebec, though there is renewed worry as new variants are beginning to spread across the country, which the Cree Health Board (CHB) called “extremely contagious.”
As Covid cases continue to steadily decline across here and across Canada, the Cree Health Board (CHB) urges continued caution as new strains of the virus have been detected in the Abitibi and Montreal regions.
A new wind energy project in Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuaraapik is launching environmental and social impact assessments for the twin communities’ Cree and Inuit populations. Community consultations that began February 16 will determine the social acceptability of the project, which proposes to partly replace the use of diesel-powered electricity with renewable energy.
