Here are some ways to reduce sugar consumption by Dr. Sharon Messinger There’s a long-term war raging for people’s money led by what I call “Big Sugar”. Sugar is everywhere in the community and it’s cheap compared to healthy foods. It’s […]
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Two Native men from Canada tell their stories of the mass shooting in Las Vegas
“Are those people dead?” Jode Kechego asked a security guard October 1 on the roof of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas after Nevada resident Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival, killing 58 people […]
The Gookumnouch Council shares life teachings
When Irene Bearskin House was 10 years old, she learned in school that the fiddle wasn’t an instrument from her own culture. She became curious: what was played in Cree culture? Bearskin House asked one of her grandmothers, a […]
After 12 years in Egypt, daughters come home with their Mistissini mother
A Mistissini woman’s years-long struggle to bring her daughters home from Egypt is finally over. Candy Gunner landed in Montreal October 2 with Fatma, 16, and Aisha, 13 – leaving only eight hours before an Egyptian court forbid their departure. […]
Taking ownership: GCC discusses private home ownership
The Grand Council of the Crees is looking to begin a new era for housing within the Cree Nation – one that helps facilitate private home ownership and prevents the type of “mass exodus” that has occurred in response to […]
Crees briefed on ongoing provincial and federal inquiries
About 50 people gathered in Val-d’Or October 5 for an information session with the Cree Nation Government and representatives of both the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and the Public Inquiry Commission on relations […]
Waswanipi shelter offers a safe haven for abused women and children
They say it takes a community to raise a child but the Cree have learned it takes one to protect women also. Robin’s Nest, a women’s shelter located in Waswanipi, opened its doors on September 25. Linda L. Shecapio, […]
WWF report a cause for concern in Eeyou Istchee
A new World Wildlife Fund Canada report is raising red flags among staff of the Cree Nation Government (CNG). The WWF study, Living Planet Report Canada, suggests that hundreds of species across the country have faced huge declines in numbers […]
The Cree submission to Quebec’s inquiry on relations with Indigenous people makes waves
When Donald Nicholls walked into the dark, cavernous rooms of the Val-d’Or music conservatory, he was searching for justice, but didn’t know if he would find it there. This wasn’t entirely new to Nicholls: walking into a large hall, papers […]
Eeyou Istchee considers its options as legal marijuana legislation approaches
One of Justin Trudeau’s 226 election promises in 2015 was to legalize the recreational use of cannabis in Canada. Despite breaking or ignoring several campaign commitments it appears that his Liberal government will follow through on this one. As Canada […]