ARTICLES BY
Amy German
Bringing together Val-d’Or preschoolers to march alongside busloads of Algonquin Elders and in between, about 1,500 people took to the streets for this year’s 12th annual Gabriel-Commanda Walk against Racism.
“We also had an increase in the number of schools that participated this year and the communities of Pikogan, Lac Simon ...
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Whereas everybody wants to live healthier and longer and look the best they can while doing so, walking the walk is always a lot tougher than talking the talk.
This is why the Nation likes to check out large-scale expositions like the annual Expo Manger Sante et Vivre Vert or Health ...
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When a woman is pregnant she shares every part of her existence with her unborn child from whatever she consumes to whatever she feels. Now, new research is showing that a pregnant mother with diabetes may also be sharing her disease with her offspring.
According to Dr. David Dannenbaum, an MD ...
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Boasting that they are “Canada’s newest high-growth iron-ore producer”, Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited (LIM) has their efforts focused on the Schefferville Projects, which span from northeastern Quebec over to western Labrador.
With 400,000 tonnes of iron-ore product sold in 2011, operating permits and agreements in place for this year, a ...
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Just 50 km south of Goldcorp’s Éléonore mining project and just a few clicks away from EM-1 is Eastmain Resources Inc.’s Clearwater flagship, the Eau Claire deposit.
As President Don Robinson explains, the company was drawn to the area because it has the same mineral potential as that of Val-d’Or, Timmins ...
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A homegrown Quebec company based in Montreal, Osisko Mining Corporation’s flagship is the Canadian Malartic gold deposit in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.
After several years of preparation, the company finally poured their first gold bar on April 13, 2011 and commercial gold production began soon after on May 19.
To the company’s credit, ...
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Based in British Columbia, Pacific Bay Minerals Limited has exploration projects on the go both nationally and internationally with claims in Quebec, BC, the Yukon and Argentina.
According to David H. Brett, President & CEO of Pacific Bay Minerals, the company has three separate projects in the Otish region. The main ...
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There is a great difference between getting back to nature and then getting back to nature in style or at least so it may seem when you go to great big hunting, fishing and camping expositions in the great big city.
From camouflage gear for every single part of your body ...
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Welcome to Nation Health Matters. This is the first of a new monthly health column that will explore different health topics that are being covered in the media or suggested by the readers of the Nation or health professionals working in Eeyou Istchee.
If you have a health topic that you ...
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Taking their dust-ups from the political arena to the boxing ring, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau and Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau are set to duke it out for charity in March.
While they first sparred over Twitter over a number of Aboriginal issues, such as Canada’s scandalous number of murdered and missing ...
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As February rolls around our attention always turns to the realm of red heart-shaped boxes and declarations of love in the name on Valentine’s Day.
While chocolates are a nice gesture and a dozen red roses are the ultimate traditional gift of the season (though very hard to come by in ...
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Whether you are interested in health care, entrepreneurship, or one of the promised thousands of jobs in the natural resource development boom that is supposed to transform Northern Quebec, there is no better time like the present to start training for a new career in Eeyou Istchee.
Between the road building, ...
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Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come is no stranger to a media storm. But when he joined several other Aboriginal leaders in a high profile and controversial meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper January 11, the media frenzy was at a fever pitch.
A YouTube video posted just minutes after Coon ...
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Looking back on another prosperous year of economic development in the Cree Nation, Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come recently took the time to discuss with the Nation what the government he leads has done for Crees.
While Premier Charest’s ambitious Plan Nord put Eeyou Istchee on the global map as a ...
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Whether you just want to get rid of some extra holiday weight after several weeks of excess or you want to give your life a complete makeover, New Year’s Day is the traditional starting point for many people’s attempts to better themselves.
The problem, however, is that what often begins as ...
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Not even a heart attack December 10 could keep Janie Pachano from passionately advocating a fully funded mandate for the Elders of Eeyou Istchee.
Unable to make it to the December 12-13 Grand Council board meeting in Montreal, Pachano, executive director of James Bay Cree Cultural Education Institute, sent a letter ...
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As the voices of Canada’s Indigenous peoples have grown louder since Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence began her hunger strike December 11 in opposition to Bill C-45 and other federal government attacks on First Nations, the “Idle No More” movement has rippled across Canada and beyond. Now people in Val d’Or ...
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With the shopping all done and the tree ornaments hung, the next thing to think about for your holiday festivities is what to serve your loved ones as you celebrate the holidays.
While Christmas is a holiday that is all about tradition and familiarity, if you are looking to debut something ...
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Though the Ontario Cree community of Attawapiskat has been in crisis over education, housing and health for many years, since its recent time in the media spotlight over a dire housing crisis, the Canadian government has chosen to blame the community over simply handing out aid.
According to Timmins-James Bay NDP ...
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While anyone who believes that Santa Claus is coming to bring them presents on Christmas Eve has no doubt already made their Christmas list a few times over by now, not everyone on your gift shopping list makes it as easy to get them something that will make them happy.
For ...
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She was the voice of a generation of children who had grown up without a school and the face of a movement to fight the Canadian government for educational equality. Though she died in 2010, a new book allows Shannen Koostachin’s story to live on forever.
At the age of 13, ...
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“Unless you can actually fly in there, you would never believe that what you were seeing was in Canada,” says Charlie Angus, Timmins-James Bay NDP MP in reference to the Third World-like living conditions in Attawapiskat, Ontario.
Attawapiskat is the subject of Canada: Apartheid Nation, a new documentary by director Angela ...
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The Cree Native Arts and Crafts Association (CNACA) has seen its own share of growing pains, much like any other entity in the Cree nation but six years later it is struggling to gain new ground.
As one of Eeyou Istchee’s smallest entities, the organization has evolved from managing the Watchiya ...
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Setting out to the change the way young Crees think about working in the field of business, the Cree Nation Youth Council (CNYC) recently hosted its own Cree Youth Business Symposium to inspire a new generation of Crees when it comes to the possibilities of the business world.
The event brought ...
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The community of Waswanipi, the Grand Council of the Crees and GéoMégA Resources gathered the media at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Montreal on October 20 to announce and sign an exclusive pre-development deal for a rare-earths mining project.
According to GéoMégA, the discovery of Total Rare Earths Oxides (TREO) at ...
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It’s hard to summarize just what The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts is in terms of a cookbook, for no other Montreal, or for that matter North American, book that has been published really compares.
Put out by the team behind restaurants Joe Beef, Liverpool ...
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