Education has been a hot topic in Eeyou Istchee for some time now between the recent Cree School Board elections and various education reforms that have brought new information into the public view. In light of this, the CSB held […]
In The Issue
Catching the Spirit
The movement to find out whatever happened to Canada’s growing list of over 520 missing and/or murdered Aboriginal women is taking off. This year, the Cree Indian Centre of Chibougamau (CICC) successfully pulled off their event to remember those sisters […]
The best of the best
From classical form to contemporary poses, Les Grand Ballets Canadiens is about to launch a new season that will celebrate everything fabulous about the ballet and beyond. Though Les Grand Ballets was formed in 1957, this year they are celebrating […]
Sending the wrong message
n mid-September many rural Manitoba Aboriginal communities were shocked and horrified when they opened their packages of supplies to combat the H1N1 virus sent to them by the federal government. The packages had hand sanitizers, masks, gloves and a series […]
Hey, is that me on the screen?
The portrayal of Indians on the silver screen has always intrigued Neil Diamond. That’s because he is a filmmaker and a Cree. And that is why he decided to make a feature-length documentary on the way Hollywood has depicted North […]
The final farewell
He may be gone but that does not mean that everyone has finished saying their goodbyes. Albert Diamond spent a lot of time in Val-d’Or throughout his life for business, pleasure and benevolence purposes and on Wednesday, September 23, the […]
Shooter apprehended in Nemaska
According to Freddie Wapachee, Deputy Director of the Nemaska Police Force, on September 15, at 11:22 am, the police received a call from a local resident indicating that shots had been fired within the community. Police responded immediately to track […]
Goose thief caught in Chisasibi
In early September, Chisasibi police received multiple complaints for reported break-ins and thefts of frozen geese from the freezers in residents’ homes. According to Chisasibi Police Director Samuel House, Barry Bearskin Sr. was arrested carrying a hunter’s packsack containing several […]
Update on Moses drug charges
Both Laura Moses, 51, and her daughter, Kim Moses, 23, have been formally charged with multiple charges of drug trafficking as a result of their arrest last spring. Both mother and daughter are set to appear in court in Chisasibi […]
100 years later
A revived tradition in Quebec’s far north is filling the region’s community freezers and linking its people to a part of their past. In August, Nunavik hunters brought in a 56-foot (17-metre) bowhead whale along the Hudson Straight coast – […]