Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall shakes up cabinet in light of leadership race – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Aug 30, 2017 REGINA _ Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has made changes to his cabinet in light of his party’s leadership race that has seen several ministers step…
New Brunswick follows P.E.I. and signs child care funding deal with Ottawa – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Aug 30, 2017 By Jordan Press THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA _ New Brunswick and P.E.I. have signed child-care funding agreements with Ottawa, one year after the four Atlantic…
Fires spark evacuation order for three northern Manitoba First Nations – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Aug 30, 2017 WASAGAMACK, Man. _ Some 2,000 residents of a remote Manitoba Indigenous community took turns piling into boats in the darkness as they fled a large…
B.C. First Nations chief charged with sexual offence involving minor – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Aug 30, 2017 VICTORIA _ British Columbia’s prosecution service says a charge of sexual interference of a person under the age of 16 has been laid against a…
Future Nunavut educators get scholarships honouring late language activist – Nunatsiaqonline
August 30, 2017 2017 winners—Pauline Copland of Arviat and Karla Malaiya Evaloakjuk of Pond Inlet Two future Nunavut educators are the recipients of the 2017 Jose Amaujaq Kusugak Scholarship, established…
Decolonizing the classroom at John Abbott College – Montreal Gazette
August 30, 2017 It’s safe to speculate that the majority of Canadians with European roots know little about Indigenous culture and even less about life here before the first European…
The Indian Act has got to go – The Chronicle Journal
JUSTIN Trudeau’s solution to ages of dense, top-down governance of Canada’s complex Indigenous file is to double the bureaucracy. What? Is splitting the existing federal department in two really the…
Overdose crisis unites diverse group – Times Colonist
August 29, 2017 For the past several months, a group of frontline workers, illicit-drug users and parents have met to discuss how they can better inform the public on the…
Province offers ‘urgent relief’ in opioid crisis – North Bay Nugget
August 30, 2017 Ontario is putting an additional $222 million over three years toward fighting an opioid crisis the government said claimed the lives of 865 people in the province…
U of L, Red Crow College teaming up for Niitsitapi Teacher Program – Lethbridge Herald
August 30, 2017 The University of Lethbridge and Red Crow College are teaming up to provide a new teaching program to help teachers work with Blackfoot children and youth. The…
