Training program successful in northern Ontario
By Rick Garrick Hardy Giles Consulting has already provided heavy equipment operator employment opportunities for about 20 unemployed and underemployed Indigenous people through a recently-announced...
Nipissing University President to shape National Reconciliation Council
By Kelly Anne Smith NORTH BAY – Nipissing University President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Mike DeGagné has been appointed to form Canada’s new National Council on...
PPF names Karen Restoule as its 2018 Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow
OTTAWA, Jan. 16, 2018 – The Public Policy Forum is pleased to announce that our 2018 Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow is Karen Restoule, who...
Lajeunesse heads stateside
By Sam Laskaris ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA – As it turns out Troy Lajeunesse will not be completing his junior hockey career close to home. Or even...
Concerned citizens march through downtown Ottawa for nuclear safety
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’, a private consortium, is proposing to permanently store nuclear waste near the Ottawa River at Chalk River. It is also applying for...
Groups express serious concerns over proposed 10-year re-licensing of Chalk River Laboratories
The Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council, the Anishinabek Nation, Ottawa Riverkeeper, the Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, and Stop Oléoduc Outaouais are jointly...
Let’s see a line in the sand for off-reserve taxation
By Maurice Switzer My grandfather, Moses Marsden, left Alderville Indian Reserve #37 in 1920 because he saw no future there for himself or his growing...