OTTAWA – Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children, according to a...

NORTH BAY – Recent Canadore College  graduate Annette Chiblow is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award. The award recognizes an...

Over 100 community members — including Cooper Taylor  and Patrick Gunsolus –turned out to support the June 11 “Our Dreams Matter Too” walk in Curve...

By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — Lakehead University has recognized their “walking history book” with an Alumni Honour Award. “I feel like I’m a walking...

By Maureen Peltier NORTH BAY– At June’s  Annual Grand Council Assembly of the Anishinabek Nation in Munsee-Delaware,  Anishinabek/Ontario Fisheries Resource Centre chairperson Cliff Meness introduced...

TORONTO – Anishinabek Nation leaders have told provincial government officials that their children in care deserve the right to their culture. “We need to leave...

TORONTO – A Wikwemikong youth is the 2013 recipient of the Bill Messenger Memorial Bursary, awarded by the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres to...

By Jon Cada MUNSEE DELAWARE NATION – There were some youthful faces at this year’s Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Assembly in Munsee-Delaware Nation in June....

CURVE LAKE FN – Councillor Keith Knott is a well-known figure in the Peterborough area, both as an advocate for cultural equality for First Nations...

SERPENT RIVER FIRST NATION – Chief Isadore Day says that his community and the City of Elliot Lake are in talks with the province of...

TORONTO – Marcella Nabigon-Guerin and her daughter graduated from university the same week. Marcella, 40, a citizen of Long Lac #58 First Nation, received a...

OTTAWA –Two Anishinabek members of the Ontario Provincial Police Aboriginal Policing Bureau have been appointed to the Order of Merit of the Police Forces.  In...

By Marlene Bilous RAMA – Anishinabek Nation leaders are demanding to be active participants in all mining-related activities on their territories, not just those involving...

Delia Opekokew received the 2013 Law Society Medal at an awards ceremony at Osgoode Hall in Toronto on May 29. A renowned leader of the...

By Barret Dokis LITTLE CURRENT – A joint venture by six First Nations to build the new Manitoulin Island Hotel and Conference Centre was praised...