PACT Nookimis Grandmothers inaugural International Bridge Walk Against Human Trafficking
By Lynne Brown SAULT STE. MARIE—Human trafficking, sexploitation, along northern corridors is real. It’s dangerous and dirty, chocking on abuse and trauma. Human trafficking has...
Breaking Free, Breaking Through video launch creates dialogue about domestic abuse
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY—The Ontario Native Women Association (ONWA) and Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) recently launched their Breaking Free, Breaking Through...
TEK elders planning demonstration in Ottawa this October
By Leslie Knibbs OTTAWA—After over two years of trying ‘to get the ear’ of both provincial and federal governments on TEK’s concerns about aerial spraying,...
Peltier’s Auto Sales continues to expand on services
By Rick Garrick FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION—J.C. Peltier has sold about 11 vehicles since opening up Peltier’s Autos Sales about four months ago on City...
Nipissing First Nation calls on all members to protect fish for generations to come
By Kelly Anne Smith NIPISSING FIRST NATION—Nipissing First Nation (NFN) Chief Scott McLeod is dealing with rebel fishermen and angry non-First Nation fishermen with a...
Bronze monument commemorating Charles Henry Byce unveiled in Chapleau
NAUGHTON, ONTARIO (September 21, 2016)–A bronze monument commemorating Charles Henry Byce, Canada’s most highly-decorated Indigenous soldier of the Second World War, was unveiled at the...
Multi-faceted economic development projects in Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek
By Rick Garrick ROCKY BAY—Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek (BZA) is developing two run-of-river hydro projects on the Namewaminikan River in partnership with AXOR Group and two...