Michel Awashish and his friend Waka Hughes – affectionately known as Doctor Waka Waka – recently launched a free breakfast program for Waswanipi schoolchildren in association with the Breakfast Club of Canada. With the help of the local band council […]

“The idea is to work from the bottom up,” said Philippe Tsaronsere Meilleur, executive director of the Montreal Native Community Development Centre (MNCDC), describing the basis for Make Yourself Heard, the first-ever Aboriginal youth forum in Montreal. Kicking off March […]

The Right of First Refusal is set to expire November 15, 2015. At that point, in theory, the Cree, Inuit and Naskapi will no longer be guaranteed the regulation’s requirement that 70% of hunting outfitters operating on Category III land […]

Tea has been a part of Aboriginal people’s diet across North America since the coming of the Europeans. I grew up drinking tea from the time I was a baby, which was the norm for Cree families up the coast. […]

It’s been quite a journey for all of us! We have gone through many cold mornings together and some local elections. Spring is here, my friends. Although I still see them “whapiyehwj” white ptarmigans feeding off my birch trees out […]

Social media erupted in righteous indignation recently after the Journal de Montréal and other Sun Media tabloids harrumphed that officials from the Kativik and Cree school boards had attended the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education in Hawaii last May. […]

According to a new report, In Bad Faith: Justice at Last and Canada’s Failure to Resolve Specific Land Claims, the federal Aboriginal Affairs department has used “misleading” and “false” statements to claim success in dealing with historical grievances known as […]

Despite a glowing presentation from Stornoway Diamonds of their diamond-mine project at the recent Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto, Cree attending the conference were not pleased. Stornoway’s presentation failed to make any mention of the […]

Many people in Val-d’Or agree that Willie’s Place is doing great things for homeless people and non-homeless people alike. But the day centre that opened on December 22 was funded with pilot-project money, and the financing runs out on March […]

No one knows what to expect when they hear the words social economy. Is socialism rebranding itself or just getting its act together? The Social Economy Conference of Eeyou Istchee tended to feel like the second assumption. Like many people […]