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Sitansisk Kolusuwakon, Holiday 2024 Edition – St. Mary’s First Nation
Sitansisk Band Offices are closed for the holidays starting Wednesday, December 18, starting at Noon (12h00), and will reopen for regular service on Monday, January 6 at 8:30 a.m. as usual. Members looking for assistance with non-urgent matters are requested to call the Band Office at +1 (506) 458-9511 or +1 (888) 445-6644 and leave […]
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Foundations Newsletter – December 2024 – FNMHF
Dec 16, 2024 Dear Valued Members and Stakeholders, as we approach the end of a very eventful fourth quarter, I am proud to reflect on the progress we have made together at the Fund. This quarter has been marked by collaboration, engagement, and a steadfast commitment to advancing sustainable housing opportunities for First Nations communities […]
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Indian Gaming Association Applauds Biden-Harris Administration for the Fourth and Final White House Tribal Nations Summit
Washington, D.C. – December 9th, 2024 – The Indian Gaming Association and its Chairman, Ernie Stevens, Jr., commended the Biden-Harris Administration for hosting the fourth and final White House Tribal Nations Summit. This landmark event underscored the administration’s commitment to strengthening Nation-to-Nation relationships with Tribal Nations and its historic progress in supporting Native communities across the […]
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Federal investment to support Indigenous-led wind projects in New Brunswick – ReNew Canada
December 11, 2024 The Government of Canada announced over $1 billion in additional investments to ensure that as New Brunswick’s electricity demands grow substantially over the coming years, demands can be met with clean electricity that is both reliable and affordable. NB Power estimates the following investments could help power up to 140,000 homes. Up […]
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Concerns raised about enforcement in baby eel fishery if licences redistributed – CBC
Dec 11, 2024 Fishers attending DFO meeting question if minister has given enough thought to proposal Fishers are raising questions about how federal enforcement officers will cope if a proposal to increase the number of people licensed to net baby eels in the Maritimes goes ahead next year. The concerns emerged during a meeting held […]
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Northern stores ‘absolutely not’ hiking food costs when federal funding arrives, says CEO – CBC
Dec 11, 2024 Dan McConnell says his company is looking to lower food prices The chief executive of the North West Co. Inc. is rejecting accusations that its stores in remote Indigenous communities hiked food prices as funding flowed in this year from federal programs aimed at making necessities more affordable. Dan McConnell made the […]
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Quebec’s electric challenges and Nova Scotia’s opportunities – Halifax Examiner
December 5, 2024 When we think of Canada being a major energy exporter, we usually think of Alberta and the shipping of crude oil and its products to the United States. We also export electricity to our neighbour to the south. Given Canada’s abundance of hydroelectric power, most of the electricity we export to the […]
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Get up close to polar bears — and the humans who live among them — in this new doc series – CBC
Dec 05, 2024 Nanut Narratives premieres Friday An upcoming documentary series on polar bears in the eastern Arctic is as much about the enigmatic creatures as it is about the people who live alongside them — and their knowledge, the project argues, is key to preserving polar bear populations in an era of climate change. The […]
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Through a Mi’kmaw lens – MUN
Dec. 4, 2024 First graduate course of its kind at Memorial University Memorial’s first sustainability-focused Indigenous course changed Angela Brockway’s educational path. Originally enrolled as a bachelor of business administration undergraduate student at Grenfell Campus, Ms. Brockway says the new graduate-level Mi’kmaw Perspectives on Sustainability course caused her to re-evaluate her degree program. Mi’kmaw Perspectives […]
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Canada, Inuit take step toward new marine-protected area off Labrador coast – TheIndependent.ca
December 4, 2024 Nunatsiavut, Makivvik sign memorandum of understanding with federal government A new agreement between the federal government and Inuit in Labrador and Quebec marks the next stage of a process to create a new Inuit Protected Area and national marine conservation area off the coast of Labrador. On Nov. 28 federal and Inuit […]
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