The Lingan Golf Club in Sydney is standing pat, at least for the most part. The club has decided not to change its logo, which depicts an Indigenous person wearing a headdress superimposed over a map of Cape Breton. The century-old logo was called into question back in February when Bryson Syliboy, a Mi’kmaw man…

A doctor with Public Health Ontario says sub-standard housing is the biggest threat to the health of people living in Attawapiskat. Dr. Ray Copes was in the community this week to talk to people about elevated levels of trihalomethanes in their water. His visit followed NDP leader Andrea Horwath’s tour of the community, as well as…

The We’koqma’q First Nation in Cape Breton is partnering with fish farming giant Cooke Aquaculture to help with the sales and marketing of the reserve’s Bras d’Or Lakes steelhead trout. Since 2011, a trout farm has been in operation at the reserve. Chief Rod Googoo said it has grown to have more than 50 people work at…

Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Morley Googoo engaged in “direct discrimination” against a former leader of the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association (NSNWA) and other Mi’kmaw women, according to an independent report commissioned by the Tripartite Forum, a federal, provincial and Mi’kmaw government organization.  Googoo has denied the allegations and dismissed the independent report…

Mario Peters, 35, was sitting at home at Pikangikum First Nation in northern Ontario last week when someone came to the door telling him they were evacuating the community due to the threat of wildfires and he would have to grab some belongings and be ready to leave the same day.  His elderly mother was away visiting…

A regional First Nations leader says Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans needs to do more to help a New Brunswick First Nation get its fair share of the snow crab fishery.  Earlier this week, about 25 Members of Natoaganeg First Nation, also known as Eel Ground First Nation, gathered outside the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to protest…