Staff at Kahnawake’s health and social services department don’t want their community members to worry about groceries and meals amid self-isolation directives and closures of all non-essential businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s why they launched an emergency food service that is providing hot meals twice a day for elders and those with limited mobility or…

First Nations which postpone their elections because of the COVID-19 pandemic will not be penalized by the federal government, as some had feared. “I think this is a constructive change. It’s unfortunate it didn’t happen sooner,” said University of Saskatchewan law professor Dwight Newman. Newman, a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous rights in constitutional law,…

Just over a decade ago, hundreds of people started to become ill with flu-like symptoms in Manitoba’s Island Lake region. It was 2009, and H1N1 influenza had begun to spread. It would take a devastating toll on remote First Nations in the area, including St. Theresa Point.  The First Nation was hit hard. Hundreds became ill and some…

A Manitoba chiefs organization wants the federal government to allow Cuban doctors into Canada to help First Nations deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.  Southern Chiefs Organization Grand Chief Jerry Daniels said a letter would be sent by Friday morning formally asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to allow Cuban Health Care Brigades into the country to…

It started with a meme. Justin Young and Justine Manuel were sitting at home in Kamloops, B.C., when they saw a meme that said “if you are having a hard time staying home, shave off your eyebrows.” The couple had already been spending lots of time at home and started working from home on March 20.…

Cree police in northern Quebec are being called into service to help residents get the message about the need to follow guidelines regarding social distancing and not gathering in large groups.  It is just one of the new security, health and safety measures added to Cree communities as the fight to slow the spread of COVID-19…