Eeyou Eenou Police Force Enforces Social Distancing
The Eeyou Eenou Police Force (EEPF) is ticketing individuals in non-compliance with social distancing orders.
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We Matter and Kids Help Phone announce partnership
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.
CBHSSJB tight-lipped about recent tuberculosis cases
According to a brief radio report, a tuberculosis outbreak struck the Cree and Inuit communities of Whapmagoostui and Kuujjuarapik in January.
CNG partners with Quebec on an ambitious infrastructure project
The first steps in a 30-year journey to transform the economy and infrastructure of Eeyou Ischee were taken in Montreal February 17.
New private housing initiative triggers concern at Council meeting
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.
Nemaska Lithium takes desperate steps to keep Whabouchi mine project afloat
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.
Canada’s first northern university to open in the Yukon
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.
Speculation builds about recent killing in Great Whale
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.
Eastmain-1 dam renamed for former Quebec premier
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.
Montreal street renamed to honour First Nations Peoples
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.”