This year’s Canadian Journalism Foundation-CBC Indigenous fellowship will go to a pair of podcasters from southern Ontario. Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis paired up four years ago to create a podcast called One Dish, One Mic. “It’s absolutely amazing. I still don’t have words,” said Dockstader. The fellowship is a partnership between the Canadian Journalism…
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Volunteer firefighters are stationed at the entrance to Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation telling visitors all its businesses are closed as a precaution against COVID-19 and advising them not to enter. “We cannot risk this illness reaching us. The way I look at it, death is at our door and it’s not welcome here. If we…
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All four First Nations that were party to the most recent Federal Court of Appeal case challenging the Trans Mountain expansion approval have applied for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Squamish Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribes and Coldwater Indian Band have each filed applications to the country’s highest court, looking to…
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Police in Kahnawake, Que., issued 12 tickets over the weekend to non-residents attempting to purchase cigarettes in the Mohawk community south of Montreal. The community’s COVID-19 task force ordered all tobacco businesses to close on March 21 to minimize traffic from outside the community amid the pandemic. Signs have been posted in French and English on a number…
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The grand chief of an organization that represents 49 First Nations in northwestern Ontario says the province’s Ministry of Health is undermining efforts to set up field hospitals for three northern regions of the province. Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said Monday that the momentum to set up field hospitals in Timmins, Thunder Bay and…
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A B.C. First Nation is applying to argue its case at the Supreme Court of Canada for the protection of its drinking water in relation to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. “This application is unlike any other proceeding concerning the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project,” states the Coldwater application, filed on Friday. “It is about ensuring…
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