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Canada’s housing plan needs a remodel: Senator Varone – SenCA+
February 21, 2025 One of Canada’s greatest challenges is the escalating affordable housing crisis, primarily stemming from a significant supply and demand imbalance. The National Housing Strategy lacks the robustness necessary to effectively address this issue. The demand for new housing throughout the country far exceeds the available supply, with an estimated need for 1.3 […]
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KLEIN: Provinces shouldn’t foot the bill for federal Indigenous responsibilities – Winnipeg Sun
Feb 21, 2025 As a proud Manitoban and Canadian, I am committed to the prosperity of all our citizens, including our Indigenous communities. It’s essential to address a critical issue: the federal government’s responsibility toward Indigenous affairs and the undue burden placed on provincial governments, particularly here in Manitoba. The Constitution Act of 1867 clearly […]
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Tackling Canada’s Discrimination Against Indigenous Language Education – The Tyee
Feb 21, 2025 Unlike English and French, instruction in Cree or Inuktitut isn’t enshrined. Scholar Lorena Sekwan Fontaine on how to fix that. Lorena Sekwan Fontaine has spent decades thinking about discrimination against Indigenous Peoples and its impact on the intergenerational transmission of languages and cultures. Fontaine is a trained lawyer and an associate professor […]
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First Nation to get in-person meeting with Alberta after cancelling virtual discussion about AI centre – CBC
Feb 21, 2025 ‘Seems that this meeting is being set up to provide a tick on the box,’ chief says The Alberta government is working to co-ordinate an in-person meeting with a northern Alberta First Nation to discuss an ambitious plan from celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary to build a massive artificial intelligence data centre. Last […]
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Studies planned for summer will determine Iqaluit hydro project final cost: Proponent – Nunatsiaq News
Feb 20, 2025 Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corp. hopes Nunavut capital city will be off diesel by 2033 Archeological and environmental studies over the summer will help determine the cost estimate for a proposed Iqaluit hydroelectric plant that could replace all of the city’s diesel-generated electricity. “This project can bring about transformational change and can truly empower […]
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Multi-day encampment cleanup underway on Soowahlie First Nation in Chilliwack – Fraser Valley Today
Feb 20, 2025 CHILLIWACK — A multi-day cleanup effort intended to clear out multiple encampments on Soowahlie First Nation land and private property just south of Chilliwack Lake Road got underway Wednesday morning in Chilliwack. Contractor Jason Walters, Wayne Furness of F.H. Forestry Ltd. and a third individual worked all day Wednesday (Feb. 19) to […]
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Local Indigenous artist now curatorial fellow at Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina – CBC
Feb 20, 2025 Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway has seen her art given as a gift by the prime minister and received by the Pope. The co-founder of the Buffalo Arts Institute is now the TD Curatorial Fellow at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina. She will offer traditional knowledge, teachings and programming, and work toward decolonizing the […]
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Aatami talks clean energy and renaming bodies of water in keynote address – Nunatsiaq News
Feb 20, 2025 Makivvik Corp. president highlights how Inuit in Nunavik are taking matters into their own hands Makivvik Corp. president Pita Aatami spoke of Inuit empowerment Wednesday at the Aqsarniit Trade Show and Conference in Ottawa. “It sounds funny when [U.S. President Donald] Trump talks about renaming the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf […]
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Reconciliation or Misallocation? – FCPP
February 20, 2025 The Kamloops B.C. Indian Band (also known as the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation) that announced the earth-shattering discovery in 2021 of children’s graves next to its Indian Residential School, has sought tens of millions in federal grants, including the cost of building a national shrine on its lands. According to Blacklock’s […]
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Doug Ford wants to ‘protect Ontario’ by digging up the Ring of Fire – Ricochet Media
February 20 2025 But consultation isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s international law. And local First Nations want an equitable role in the process In response to a serious question about municipal revenues during the Northern Leaders Debate last Friday, Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford touted the value of, “unleashing northern Ontario’s economic potential, and I’ll tell […]
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