An organization that helps families find Indigenous children that went missing in the health care system is looking to extend its services to Nunavik. Françoise Ruperthouse, Awacak’s director, and consultant Anna Panasuk were in the region this week and took to the airwaves to share the organization’s mission. Awacak was founded in 2021 after Quebec […]

The New Brunswick government is changing course on holding a public inquiry into systemic racism against Indigenous people in the justice system. “We are fully supportive of an Indigenous-led inquiry on systemic racism,” Keith Chiasson, the province’s Indigenous Affairs minister, told reporters at the legislature Wednesday. That’s a change since the previous Progressive Conservative government,

Windsor Ward 3 Coun. Renaldo Agostino says he would like to see a community for homeless people in Windsor similar to the Avivo Village in Minneapolis, Minn. Agostino and Mayor Drew Dilkens visited the city in April and toured the facility that features 100 secure tiny homes inside a large building that also houses wrap-around

DIY Community Health Timmins is raising awareness about the challenges Indigenous youth face when they leave their home communities to attend school in larger centres. For the past three days, Patrick Etherington and volunteers with the organization have been walking from the Mutual Aid site to Gillies Lake. Organizers said the walks will continue throughout

Canadian National Railway says homelessness is a growing problem along its North American rail network and has pledged $100 million over ten years to fund community groups and shelters that offer services to the unhoused. Non-profits in Canada and the United States, including groups running research projects on homelessness, will be able to apply online

A new Indigenous gathering space is coming to Kitchener this summer. The City of Kitchener said the Indigenous Peoples Gathering Space will be installed in the southwest corner of Victoria Park. It comes after a consultation process with local Indigenous groups started in 2020. Amy Smoke, co-director of O:se Kenhionhata:tie/Willow River Center, said it is

A new Indigenous affordable housing project valued at $22 million will be built in North Bay in less than two years. The federal, provincial and municipal governments announced Friday afternoon that they are all contributing money towards the final cost of the build. That includes $4.5 million from the Canada-Ontario Community Housing Initiative. “These are

The number of people dying while experiencing homelessness is on the rise for the fifth consecutive year in B.C., according to recently released 2024 data from the B.C. Coroners Service. That year, 507 people died while homeless, a more than tripling from 157 deaths in 2020. The reason for the increase isn’t yet clear, according

A drumbeat anchors a crowd of students on a windy day and students, dressed in colourful regalia, dance before hundreds of their peers. For the Indigenous students of Gatineau’s Philemon Wright High School, this wasn’t just a performance — it was a reclamation of the school grounds. For Kaylee Otter, from the Cree Nation of

The City of Yellowknife on Wednesday will begin mulling whether to develop a formal policy on homeless encampments — while some residents of those encampments wonder what their surroundings will look like now that the warmer months are back. One resident, Bobby Villeneuve, says he’s comfortable right now. For almost a year, Villeneuve says he’s