Advocates turn up heat on poverty strategy – Catholic Register
Now that Canadians have had nine months to tell Ottawa what they want to see in a national poverty reduction strategy, people like Mary Boyd are hoping to increase pressure…
BR Mba Forest Fire – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Sep 8, 2017 WINNIPEG – Indigenous leaders are calling on the Manitoba government to declare a state of emergency and free up more hotel rooms…
Voters send message as NDP score decisive victory in Saskatchewan byelection – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 8, 2017 SASKATOON _ Voters in the Saskatoon riding of Fairview have sent a pointed goodbye message to outgoing Premier Brad Wall and his Saskatchewan Party by…
MISSING: Angel Swampy, 16, of Ponoka – Ponoka News
September 07, 2017 Ponoka RCMP request help in locating a missing Aboriginal girl last seen Sept. 5. Police say 16-year-old Angel Swampy was last seen near the Ponoka Youth Centre…
PM to meet first ministers, Indigenous leaders Oct. 3 – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 7, 2017 11:54 OTTAWA _ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will convene a first ministers conference, including a meeting with national Indigenous leaders, on Oct. 3. The Prime…
Workers to support families for missing and murdered Indigenous women inquiry – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 7, 2017 13:27 INDIAN BROOK, N.S. _ The Nova Scotia government has hired three community support workers to help the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women as a…
Man dies during altercation with police on reserve northeast of Edmonton – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 7, 2017 11:00 ST. PAUL, Alta. _ The agency that investigates serious incidents involving police in Alberta has been called after a man died on a reserve northeast of…
Indigenous graduate student scholarship gets a makeover – Uregina
Press Release September 07, 2017 The University of Regina’s Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR) has given one of its graduate student awards a makeover. Formerly known as the…
With you until I die’ – CBC
Two First Nations teens, in love and off to college, had a bright future ahead of them. Now they share a grave, and their small Alberta community is trying its…
The importance of documentary – Pique Newsmagazine
Whistler’s Diamondhead Films’ latest, Walk, focuses on missing and murdered Indigenous women There’s a moment in the documentary Walk when the most heart-wrenching kind of recognition takes place. “That’s my…
