People are self-isolating across the country to flatten the curve of the Covid-19 pandemic but that doesn’t mean you can’t stay occupied. The National Film Board of Canada has over 4,000 films, documentaries and short pieces available to stream for free and this includes a rich library of Indigenous content.  In March 2018, the National…

One of the regional hospitals that will play a key front-line role if COVID-19 hits remote northern First Nations is freeing up beds and ordering additional ventilators in preparation.   The Thunder Bay Health Sciences Centre would not only serve the 100,000 residents of the city in the event of an outbreak, but also deal…

As the Northwest Territories and the rest of Canada continue to practise social distancing to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, the community of Tsiigehtchic is asking the territorial government for a permanent nurse. The Elders Committee in Tsiigehtchic held an emergency meeting regarding the situation on Wednesday. “Now it’s almost like an emergency situation where we…

Elders at a nursing home in Wikwemikong First Nation in Ontario are taking to social media to tell families and First Nations the importance of social distancing, self-isolating, and handwashing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The elders are sharing their concerns to get the message across that measures taken across the country are about protecting residents like themselves.…

The K’atl’odeeche First Nation near Hay River, N.W.T, has declared a state of emergency until further notice in response to the coronavirus pandemic.  Anyone entering the First Nation, either by the all-season road or the ice road, will have to show a security guard proof of band membership. The public will be turned away until leadership…

A Nunavut politician says guaranteed basic income could help some Nunavummiut escape poverty and join the labour force. Arviat North-Whale Cove MLA John Main says the idea — recommended in a 2013 report commissioned by Nunavut’s Anti-Poverty Secretariat — should be researched and piloted.   “If we don’t research and actually try it out … we’ll never know, it’ll just be an idea…