While most were out celebrating the arrival of the New Year, Edith Salt and Rylan Gull-Chum of Waswanipi were celebrating the birth of their second son, Cohen Gull-Chum, the first Cree baby born in 2012. Delivered at 12:29 am […]
Archive for January, 2012
Liberals blast feds over Attiwapiskat crisis
The federal Liberal Party continued its harsh criticism of the Harper government’s handling of the Attawapiskat housing crisis after a December 18 visit to the community by Liberal Leader Bob Rae and the party’s critic for Aboriginal Affairs, Carolyn […]
Happy New (and not the last) Year
We are all looking forward to a new year but many are fearful of the coming of 2012. Some believe the coming year will mark the end of an historic period. Many think that this year will be a […]
Blackstone returns for sophomore season
Premiering Wednesday, January 11, the second season of the award-winning television series Blackstone will be continuing where it left off with last season’s cliff-hanger finale on APTN. The series, which follows the fictitious Blackstone First Nation, is ground […]
Serving up success in a four-course menu
Who offers a four-course menu, including an entree, soup, main course and dessert for $5? Pass by the Sabtuan Regional Vocational Training Centre in Waswanipi, where you can eat to your wallet’s content. “We are not out to […]
Cree Hockey News and Notes
Kapuskasing Flyers Bring Their Winning Ways to Gatineau The AAA Kapuskasing Flyers of the Great North Midget League finished 2011 on a high note, putting together a combined record of 8-1-1 in both GNML games and games played […]
Images of the future
It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, a new five-minute video could be that epic novel that captures the rising spirit of an entire nation. The Cree Regional Economic Enterprise Company – Creeco […]
Eeyou Istchee in the midst of historic evolution
Looking back on another prosperous year of economic development in the Cree Nation, Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come recently took the time to discuss with the Nation what the government he leads has done for Crees. While Premier […]
Better late than never?
The RCMP says it will develop closer working relationships with First Nations groups in a joint effort to solve cold case files on the epidemic of missing and murdered native women in Canada. The RCMP will establish a working […]
A showcase for the artists of Quebec’s 11 Nations
The ground-breaking 11 Nations exhibit at Old Montreal’s Bonsecours Market was unveiled December 13 to a packed gallery that included luminaries such as NDP MP Romeo Saganash and Quebec Native affairs minister Geoff Kelley. With 38 pieces hanging in […]