An Indigenous mural at Algonquin College was smeared with paint Jan. 28, 2020. (Algonquin College) Ottawa police hate crime officers are investigating paint being smeared on a three-story mural that nods to Indigenous stories of creation at Algonquin College earlier this week. The college says someone used yellow paint to deface part of a three-storey mural at its Woodroffe Avenue…

The CEO for Cenovus will be announcing what’s described as the largest community investment in the company’s history Thursday morning. The project, currently under wraps, will be focused on Indigenous communities near the Cenovus oilsands operations in northern Alberta, and will take place over multiple years. The company has planned a press conference with CEO…

Students and community members of the Seven Oaks School Division hope the name of a new school will reflect its student body — and work in the division on reconciliation. The current proposed name for the new kindergarten to Grade 5 French- immersion school is École Templeton — named after William Templeton, a pioneer land owner.  But at a Monday meeting of…

Two initiatives approved this week could start supplying cleaner energy to northern communities by next year in the form of LNG and, potentially, electricity generated from the earth’s own heat.  GasNorth Energy Ltd. announced Jan. 28 it has received approval from the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission to install a natural gas liquefaction facility in an equity partnership with the…

Pearl Keenan, a respected Teslin Tlingit elder of the Dakl’awedi clan, has died. She was 99 years old. Her family says Keenan died early Wednesday morning at Whistle Bend Place in Whitehorse, where she had been living in recent years.  Keenan was known as a tireless advocate for education and the Tlingit language and culture. …

In a sea can outside Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, there are rows of ripening cherry tomatoes working to grow from green to red.   Betty Kogvik and Susie Kununak are making sure those little fruits — which will mark the second harvest from the community’s new agricultural research station — have all the warmth and light they…