A game-changing program for Indigenous women is in jeopardy thanks to cash crunch. Staff at Positive Voice program are looking for a new financial lifeline to continue their work turning peoples’ lives around.  The program at London’s Nokee Kwe Native Education Centre has been turning wall flowers into warriors since 2016. The seven-week course teaches women to…

A Toronto-based Chippewa artist says a recent commission to design a teaser poster for Jeff Barnaby’s new zombie film Blood Quantum was right up his alley. “I’m a huge horror movie fan and to see some representation in the horror genre is really cool,” said Jay Soule.  Soule, also known as Chippewar, is known for politically driven installation…

A senior corporate official with the joint venture behind an LNG terminal project that would eventually ship natural gas from the Coastal GasLink pipeline says First Nations people who support the project are being silenced by “bullying and intimidation.” Susannah Pierce, director of corporate affairs for LNG Canada, the joint venture behind a planned LNG export…

It took Gail Francis of Negotkuk (Tobique First Nation) years to turn an idea into her first children’s book. But all that work comes to fruition when she releases Moonbeam on Monday. Moonbeam is a culturally based children’s book about how a pre-contact Indigenous family names their child. The character Moonbeam is told the story of her…

An event at the First Nations University of Canada in Regina Thursday is bringing together women to have their voices heard.  Speaking for Ourselves will feature women performing songs and poetry, as well as an open mic. The event runs from 4:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. CST and open to the public.  It comes after a Campus Smudge…

Two nurses testifying at the Cynthia Blackjack inquest in Yukon said there was no hesitation to send an ambulance to pick up the ailing woman, the day she died. Nurse Terry Ogilvie was working at the Carmacks Health Centre on Nov. 7, 2013, when the call came for an ambulance to be sent to the house…