Decades in the making, a new dialysis unit in Mistissini will finally allow the community’s diabetes patients to receive care at home. The clinic, which opened October 8, offers hemodialysis for patients who had previously been treated in Chibougamau or […]
Archive for October, 2014
Chisasibi fisher succumbs to hypothermia
A Chisasibi man perished in a boating accident while fishing on Wastawawmakw Lake September 24. Johnny Menarick was fishing with James Hill near kilometre 20 beach when an evening storm caught the men in rough waters. Their canoes capsized on […]
Lest We Forget
Lest we forget – that is the phrase that reminds us of the horrors of war and those who gave their lives in conflicts around the world. We all know that November 11 is set aside to take time to […]
Things that go bump in the dark
One of the best things about Halloween is getting scared silly. These days, scary is really scary, as many people can apply makeup with ease and look deader than usual. I suppose that many a zombie, flesh-eater, nightwalker and wannabe […]
Nothing to fear but fear itself
The attacks on Canadian soldiers in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Ottawa couldn’t have come at a better time for the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. As I write in the wake of the two shocking incidents, conspiracy theorists are already spinning worldwide […]
Artist Walter Kaheró:ton Scott brings comic art to Kahnawake kids
Mohawk artist and cartoonist Walter Kaheró:ton Scott moves around a lot. For a while, he was living in Montreal’s St-Henri neighbourhood, playing in punk bands. Last year he was in Vancouver before crossing the Pacific for an artist residency in […]
The Nation’s annual Fall/Winter tourism guide
As the first snow has already begun to fall and the winter clothes pulled out of storage, escaping what is bound to be a long and cold winter is already on the minds of many. Absconding to somewhere exotic and […]
Montreal’s vigil for missing and murdered Indigenous women builds momentum for justice
Despite steady rain, hundreds of people showed up to Montreal’s Parc Émilie-Gamelin October 4 for the march that culminated in this year’s Montreal Vigil for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. “We could have been double if it was a beautiful […]
Barrier Lake residents are leading a spirited battle for the forest
First Nations families in the Laurentian Mountains are fighting in court to stop logging in Parc La Verendrye. Area resident Tina Nottaway is seeking an injunction to stop multinational forestry giant Louisiana Pacific from tearing up her backyard. “The cutting […]
Métis 11-year-old on the right track to auto-racing glory
The last race of Xavier Dorsnie’s season saw some of the most challenging conditions he has raced in. The rain was torrential, obscuring the view of the tight, Formula-1-inspired turns of the Mont-Tremblant karting circuit. The course was slippery, “like […]