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Federally-funded homes now occupied in Nahanni Butte, on site in Lutsel K’e
By Tom Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWT News/North In January of 2024, the federal government announced plans to invest nearly $19 million for new homes in Indigenous communities ...
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Haldimand County OPP charge 3 with cocaine possession
HALDIMAND COUNTY, ON – Haldimand County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged  three people after police observed a ...
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Judge should have shut door to expropriation in title claim: firms
By John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Daily Gleaner The Wolastoqey Nation’s title claim for more than half of New Brunswick was in court again, this time because three timber ...
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Canada’s chief justice decries misinformation as top court turns 150
Canada’s chief justice says the nation’s top court is expanding public outreach as “misinformation and disinformation” circulate and more people get their information from social media. Chief Justice ...
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Yukon premier says northerners are feeling anxious about incoming tariffs
CP-Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai says northerners are feeling anxious about looming U.S. tariffs. Pillai says the cost of groceries in Yukon is already high, as it imports dairy products, fruits and ...
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‘Bad move’: Leaders disappointed by community learning centre closures
By Tom Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWT News/North On Jan. 23, Aurora College announced plans to close its 19 community learning centres, which are located in communities across the ...
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What B.C. Premier Eby’s mandate letters mean for Indigenous peoples
By Bhagyashree Chatterjee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Squamish Chief What do Premier David Eby’s latest mandate letters for ministers mean for Indigenous peoples? These letters, all ...
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Manitoba premier says he’s looking for ways to ban U.S. companies from bids
The Manitoba government is looking for ways to prevent companies in the United States from bidding on provincial contracts as ...
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‘Here we are again’: Death row Canadian waits as Montana looks at resuming executions
By Bill Graveland The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming ...
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Frederick Blake Jr. was sworn in as Grand Chief of the Gwich’in Tribal Council at a ceremony in Tsiigehtchic
The ceremony went ahead even as the tribal council’s board of directors said earlier on Friday it would appeal this month’s N.W.T. Supreme Court decision that declared Blake the winner of last year’s ...
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2 Navajo men and a business partner are indicted for illegal marijuana grow operations
A federal grand jury has indicted a Navajo man, his father and a business partner on charges that they were running illegal marijuana growing operations in New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation to ...
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B.C. Premier Eby bemoans ‘chaos’ and ‘confusion’ as U.S. tariff threat looms
By Marcy Nicholson As economists met British Columbia’s Finance Minister Brenda Bailey around a Vancouver hotel conference table and online on Friday, one announced news fresh to hand, sending a ...