Nipissing sending 68-member team to Toronto – North Bay Nugget
September 20, 2017 It’s a critical time for university recruitment in Ontario this week, with more than 120,000 prospective students and their supporters visiting the Ontario Universities’ Fair in downtown…
Viewpoint: Whose land is it anyway? – Gulf Islands Driftwood
September 20, 2017 As a relative newcomer to Salt Spring Island — but a life-long resident on Turtle Island— I hope to offer a gentle reflection following the “yes/no” debates…
Coates: Helping Indigenous Peoples is about more than embracing UN declarations – Ottawa Citizen
September 20, 2017 As world leaders, including our own, meet at the United Nations this week, there have been renewed calls for Canada to fully embrace the United Nations Declaration…
It’s just so heartbreaking’: Marystown death adds to list of missing and murdered women in N.L. – CBC
Ryanna Grywacheski, 18, was killed Saturday in an alleged murder-suicide September 20, 2017 The list of missing and murdered women in Newfoundland and Labrador has grown by one more, and…
BR Highway Of Tears Walk – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Sep 20, 2017 VANCOUVER – Family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women will begin a five-day walk along a notorious stretch of highway in…
Liberal minister urges Conservatives to kick Sen. Lynn Beyak out of caucus – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 19, 2017 OTTAWA _ Liberal cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett is urging the leader of the official Opposition to kick Sen. Lynn Beyak out of the Conservative caucus.…
Manitoba NDP leader says questions about assault accusations continue – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 19, 2017 By Steve Lambert THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG _ New Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew acknowledges that he will continue to face questions about 14-year-old domestic…
B.C. asked oil, gas industry to ‘refine’ climate plan recommendations: documents – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 19, 2017 By Laura Kane THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER _ British Columbia’s former Liberal government asked oil and gas corporations to “refine” the language of recommendations made…
Going home: Last of northern Manitoba’s wildfire evacuees return to community – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 19, 2017 WINNIPEG _ The last of several thousand people forced out by a wildfire in northern Manitoba last month are returning home. The Canadian Red Cross…
Heavy Head confirms bid for mayor’s chair – Lethbridge Herald
In 2013, Martin Heavy Head says he became the first Indigenous candidate to run for Lethbridge City Council. While he didn’t win one of the eight councillor seats, he did…
