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The first new build through Calgary’s Maa’too’maa’taapii Aoko’iyii’piaya, its Indigenous housing program, will be a 60-unit project in Erin Woods. The southeast housing project will provide non-market housing for Siksika Nation members to live off-reserve. “We want to be able to give our people a place where they can raise their children in a safe […]

Some Newfoundland and Labrador municipalities have recognized National Indigenous Peoples Day as an official holiday but one St. John’s-based Indigenous group is calling for additional action to advance truth and reconciliation. For Chad Bedard, First Light’s manager of knowledge mobilization, tackling truth and reconciliation should involve collaboration. “It means that you start working with Indigenous

Deshanna Tsakoza says spending time at the Klua Lake (Lhuuge Męge) fish camp in northeastern B.C. feels like coming home. Prophet River First Nation held its second annual spring cultural camp last week at Klua Lakes, to reconnect members with the nation’s historical village site, culture and land-based learning. “I’m just at peace here,” said

The sole emergency homeless shelter in the northern Alberta hamlet of Lac La Biche closed its doors this week after an unsuccessful five-month search for a new home. On Tuesday, the shelter run by the Lakeland Out of the Elements Shelter Society ceased operations, at least in its current home: a Lac La Biche County-owned

Two groups representing Indigenous people in New Brunswick have come to an agreement with the provincial government allowing them free access to seven provincial parks. “The message that we sent right from Day 1 is that we wanted to rebuild the relationship between the provincial government and First Nation governments,” Indigenous Affairs Minister Keith Chiasson

Outreach workers Steven Halldorson and Erin Guidolin jump in their Salvation Army-branded vehicle in the back lane between Main Street and Martha Street to help people in Winnipeg who are homeless. They hand out water and food. In the winter, the duo gives toques, mitts, jackets and hand warmers. Giving people basic necessities can be

Some Indigenous governments in Fort Smith, N.W.T., are taking the lead on building housing for the community so it has room to grow. For projects led by the Salt River First Nation and the Fort Smith Métis Council, construction is already underway. “We work together as a community, and we’ll expand as a community so

An international tribunal has ruled that the Government of Canada’s current policies constitute an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, following a gruelling week of hearings on intergenerational trauma. Seven judges of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal — an international court of opinion which investigates human rights violations — issued the interim ruling on Friday. The tribunal

A new shelter primarily for Indigenous women and two-spirit people who are escaping violent home situations is slated to open next month in Cornwall. Geggunas’g House will be run by the Native Council of Prince Edward Island, which plans to open the shelter in June. Geggunas’g means “held for safe keeping” in Mi’kmaw. The shelter

Yellowknife city council has accepted a set of recommendations for how to handle homeless encampments — including one to ban camping on municipal land and to “encourage” encampment residents to relocate to territorial land. Mayor Ben Hendriksen says shifting responsibility by moving residents to Commissioner’s Land is a good thing. “When it comes to issues