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Carney’s elbows-in approach puts Indigenous nations at risk
BY Janelle Lapointe - August 10, 2026
Nations face difficult decisions with this government: partner on a project, but be left with financial debt and stranded assets if it fails; deny fast-tracked projects and tie up scarce community resources on litigation and front-line confrontation. Read full story
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‘What more do you need?’ says Sen. Audette as researchers find ‘strong intersection’ between MMIWG and online human trafficking
BY Stuart Benson - August 5, 2026
A new report reinforces decades of advocates’ warnings about resource development and community safety, says former inquiry commissioner. Read full story
Opinion
Ontario burns amid Ford’s failing response to climate change
BY Les Whittington - July 29, 2026
In its environmentally backward way, the Ontario government has clearly failed to adjust to the mounting threats of global warming. Read full story
Opinion
Does racism have a face in wildfire response?
BY Rose LeMay - July 27, 2026
A dozen First Nations leaders held a press conference to detail the lack of involvement of First Nations in managing the crisis, and they called out Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s communications as propaganda attempting to spin the wildfire response as entirely positive. Just who is running this disaster, anyhow?  Read full story
Opinion
Of knowledge, research, and Arctic diplomacy through a next generation global lens: Students On Ice connect with communities
BY Paul Dufour - July 23, 2026
The SOI Foundation is a truly global venture having students and educators from every corner of the globe experience to better understand first-hand and to learn more about our planet of people, land, climate, water, and ice and their complex interactions. Read full story
News
‘It’s First Nations that are defending the Crown’: Chiefs oppose separatism at AFN assembly
BY Eleanor Wand - July 17, 2026
Alberta First Nations have 'bought Canada time' though their legal battles against separatists, says Treaty 8 First Nations Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi. Read full story
Opinion
Now is the perfect time to end legislated discrimination in Canada
BY Jerry Daniels - July 13, 2026
By not passing Bill S-2 as amended, Canada would continue severing family and community connections through the second-generation cut-off that fractures our people’s identity. Read full story
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Nutrition North subsidy needs a revamp, says ITK president Obed
BY Tessie Sanci - July 13, 2026
While a third-party report focuses on improving the subsidy's administration, ITK leader Natan Obed says a new transparent model ‘more explicitly focused’ on people—not retailers—who experience food insecurity is required. Read full story
Opinion
The worst health care in Canada is federal
BY Rose LeMay - July 13, 2026
Indigenous Peoples deserve to be healthy. Do remember we’re in this era of reconciliation, when Canada says it will make reparations. NIHB is currently not a reparation. Instead, the program requires atonement for its current inequity. Read full story
News
All-Indigenous steering body for Senate committee brings ‘invaluable’ experience to table, say members
BY Laura Ryckewaert - July 8, 2026
The Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples is now chaired by Quebec Senator Michèle Audette, who has picked up the gavel for the first time since joining the Red Chamber. Read full story