A woman from the Kitikmeot region in Nunavut is organizing to have packages of menstrual pads, tampons and underwear shipped to girls in the Arctic who can’t afford to buy them. Hovak Johnston is originally from a small community called Umingmaktok — an abandoned hamlet between Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk. She said there are a lot of…

If more Nunavummiut are going to succeed in trade apprenticeships, then the government needs to support their family members too, communities are telling the Department of Family Services.  This comes via feedback from ongoing consultations over changes to the territories Apprenticeship Act. Staff from the department’s career development division hosted meetings in Baker Lake from Jan.…

Percy Wallace said he felt renewed hope when he heard his previously rejected residential school settlement claim was one of over 200 that would be compensated — a hope that was soon dashed after Crown-Indigenous Relations officials again turned down his claim.  Wallace, 56, had been a victim of a student-on-student sexual assault at the Sechelt residential school in…

London, Ont,. teacher Carole Thompson was preparing to teach her Grade 5 class about Canada’s residential school system when she came across a two-minute video on Facebook. In the video, soft-spoken Victoria resident Eddy Charlie talked about why he promotes Orange Shirt Day to remember the Indigenous children forcibly taken from their homes at a young age.  “This…

Chris Gleason is more than happy to show off his 10-month-old daughter, Alice. “She’s amazing. I can’t say enough good things about her, she’s just brightened up our lives,” he said. Alice was one of 19 infants celebrated at a special event this week at the Kwanlin Dün First Nation’s potlatch house in Whitehorse. It was…

In the wake of a new report showing Indigenous people account for almost a  third of prisoners in Canada, the N.W.T.’s justice minister said changes are in order for the territory’s justice system. A release from Correctional Investigator of Canada Dr. Ivan Zinger last month highlighted new numbers showing people of Indigenous ancestry accounted for…