Three men from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, say they were forced into homelessness after they were released on bail from the Baffin Correctional Centre.  “Luckily people have come by to drop off a blanket and a dome tent. I don’t know what I’d do if the people didn’t help,” said 28-year-old Patrick Kudluarok, from the Iqaluit airport.…

In the middle of a pandemic, some people are finding comfort in making homemade face masks for their friends and family, even if they aren’t helpful in preventing COVID-19 and wearing one may even be riskier than not wearing one. Lisa Osler is Métis from Prince Albert, Sask., and has been doing beadwork for over eight…

First Nations are being pressured by the federal government to hold elections in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, say legal experts and band officials. One Saskatchewan First Nation is going ahead Friday despite pleas from its own emergency management team to postpone for 30 days. “They’re forcing First Nations into a really awful dilemma.…

First Nations are being pressured by the federal government to hold elections in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, say legal experts and band officials. One Saskatchewan First Nation is going ahead Friday despite pleas from its own emergency management team to postpone for 30 days. “They’re forcing First Nations into a really awful dilemma.…

Two Mohawk communities around the Island of Montreal say despite closing tobacco and cannabis businesses to minimize traffic from outside the community amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the shops’ non-Indigenous clients keep coming. Kahnawake, on the south shore of the city, ordered all tobacco shops and factories within the community to close on March 21. But multiple…

Gloves, masks and sanitizer are hard to come by in Grassy Narrows First Nation, according to Chief Rudy Turtle.  He said store shelves 88 kilometres southwest in Kenora, Ont., are running bare. While he worries about people getting enough food to eat — not to mention toilet paper — Turtle said his most pressing fear is…