After nearly three weeks without new infections, the Cree Health Board reported two more confirmed COVID-19 cases in Eeyou Istchee April 27, bringing the total in the territory to eight.
While the numbers from the Cree Board of Health’s April 15 COVID-19 public update showed that the region was the least infected in all of Quebec, Cree leadership insists the parade will have to wait.
To date, there have been five confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Eeyou Istchee, bringing the total of Cree currently fighting the virus to six -- one who was diagnosed and has been isolated and treated in Montreal at the Espresso Hotel.
The Eeyou Eenou Police Force (EEPF) is ticketing individuals in non-compliance with social distancing orders.
Kids Help Phone, Canada’s most recognized support helpline for children and youth, has just announced a partnership with We Matter, Canada’s only Indigenous-led and Indigenous youth specific mental health and life promotion organization.
According to a brief radio report, a tuberculosis outbreak struck the Cree and Inuit communities of Whapmagoostui and Kuujjuarapik in January.
The first steps in a 30-year journey to transform the economy and infrastructure of Eeyou Ischee were taken in Montreal February 17.
One of the major points of interest at the Cree Nation Government Board Council meeting in Montreal January 28-30 was the presentation of the CNG’s proposed new private housing initiative.
Amid growing uncertainty surrounding the company’s future, Nemaska Lithium’s board of directors announced January 20 the appointment of Jacques Mallette as its new chairman.
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.
