Category: In Brief

Aboriginal gaming innovation at its best

Adding to Montreal’s already thriving gaming industry, Rezolution Pictures has branched out with Minority Inc. to produce games. Executive producer and chief spiritual officer Ernest Webb has always wanted to share stories of the James Bay Cree with the world […]

IFAW dog clinics

The International Fund for Animal Welfare will be hosting veterinary dog clinics in two Cree communities. Vets at the clinics perform surgeries to spay or neuter dogs as well as vaccinations and other routine procedures. IFAW is in Waskaganish June […]

Robbie Robertson awarded Order of Canada

After 50 years of rocking out and writing songs that shaped decades and generations, Six Nations of the Grand River rocker Robbie Robertson graced a stage he had never graced before when he received the Order of Canada at Rideau […]

Outgoing Auditor General addresses Aboriginal poverty

With her last kick at the can as Auditor General, Sheila Fraser delivered her final recommendations to the federal government regarding Canada’s greatest needs for change. Among them were swift recommendations to address Aboriginal poverty. According to Fraser, despite how […]

Romeo Saganash named Natural Resources critic

As a nod to the growing influence of the Cree Nation, NDP leader Jack Layton appointed newly elected MP Romeo Saganash to the shadow cabinet as Natural Resources critic. Saganash will be carefully monitoring the work Conservative minister Joe Oliver […]

Chisasibi man dies in canoeing accident

According to a report, George F.A. Pachano died in a freak canoe accident on Tuesday, May 10 at 8:30 am. Pachano was travelling by canoe on waters near Chisasibi when the front of the fiberglass canoe apparently split open. He […]

Plan du Nord finally released to the public

After years in the making and much talk from Premier Jean Charest and Natural Resources Minister Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec finally unveiled the long-awaited Plan du Nord, the province’s long-term plan for development in northern Quebec. The Plan was presented to […]

Waswanipi man hit by train in Sudbury

Tragically, Leonard Neposh Matthews, 40, originally from Waswanipi, died May 5 after being struck by a train just after 1:00 am. Matthews had been living in Sudbury at the time of his death to pursue an Honours BA in Law […]

RCMP database on missing women delayed

The RCMP national database that was set to replace the database that the Native Women’s Association of Canada’s Sisters in Spirit (SIS) initiative had created to track data on missing and murdered Aboriginal women has now been delayed until 2013. […]

Aboriginal health puts the brakes on oilsands growth

The perception of Aboriginal Health and Canada’s failure to protect the environment regarding Alberta’s oilsands production is leaving a foul taste in the mouths of many Americans and turning them off from purchasing Canadian oil. While oilsands production is slated […]