The start of construction for a new health facility, expanding on midwifery services and fundraising to bring a teepee to hospital property are some of the developments in Indigenous health care in Toronto coming in the new year.  Toronto is home to the largest, most diverse urban Indigenous population in Ontario and Indigenous people often experience gaps in…

The manager of the Indigenous students’ centre at the University of Regina says Indigenization should have taken precedence over academic freedom in the case of a poet whose lecture was cancelled after outrage over his connection to the convicted killer of an Indigenous woman.   Misty Longman is a Saulteaux member of George Gordon First Nation…

Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Chief Roberta Joseph says the Yukon government is acting too quickly in allowing a hunt of the Fortymile caribou herd. The territorial government opened the hunt Jan. 1. It will issue 25 permits at a time to a maximum of 225 until the end of March. The Fortymile herd’s population has increased from a low…

The Assembly of First Nations is creating a national plan aimed at helping homeless First Nations people living off reserve. The AFN, which represents roughly 900,000 living in reserves and in cities across Canada, voted to create the strategy in December at a special chiefs meeting in Ottawa. The plan was spearheaded by the Ahousaht First Nation, from…

A hereditary chief with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation says the community is expecting further police action after B.C. Supreme Court ruled in favour of a natural gas company that wants to build a pipeline through its territory. Na’moks, who also goes by John Ridsdale, said he wasn’t surprised that the court granted Coastal GasLink an…

A renowned Canadian poet who had worked with the man convicted of killing an Indigenous woman says he won’t read the killer’s poetry at an upcoming University of Regina event amidst calls for it to be cancelled. George Elliott Clarke said earlier this week that he wasn’t ruling out reading the work of Steven Kummerfield, who was convicted…