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.
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
