Category: 2011 02 11
It used to be that the first targets of an authoritarian government were television and radio broadcasters. Now it’s the Net, its users and ISPs they need to communicate.
Just look at the incipient revolution in Egypt: in a failed effort to cut the growing protest movement off at the knees, ...
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Algonquin communities in Quebec and Ontario are in a state of outrage after KNL Developments Inc. clear-cut 1,100 hectares of land within an old-growth forest in Beaver Pond so that it can build a new subdivision.
The Algonquin have always stated that the forest, located 20 minutes outside of Ottawa, had ...
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Just days after the Alberta government announced that a new panel of experts had been formed to monitor the environmental impacts of the province’s oil sands, one of its members has already quit.
While the panel was only announced at the end of January, five days after its official formation Helen ...
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Television was never a big part of my early childhood. In the early 1980s, TV was a new phenomenon that had just been introduced to our community merely a decade before. Even though mom and dad furnished our living room with a new TV set we had nothing to watch. ...
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It was a cold day but that didn’t stop people for showing up for the official opening of the Mistissini Justice Building on January 31.
A proud Justice Director Donald Nicholls led people on a tour. Though the facility has the usual trappings of a courthouse complete with holding cells and ...
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She has rapidly become Canada’s culinary Queen of Hearts as the host of Bitchin’ Kitchen on Food Network Canada, but Nadia Giosia was “bitchin’” long before her small-screen debut.
For that matter, while she is the host of a TV cooking show, Giosia, a.k.a. Nadia G, has never actually set foot ...
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In early January the Innu of Pessamit were shocked and dismayed to discover that the Nevado Resources Corporation had been illegally carrying out drilling on their ancestral lands known as the Nitassinan.
“We have never given Nevado permission to drill on our territory. We demand that it cease all activities immediately,” ...
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While the Cree and other nearby communities in Quebec hold their breath waiting for the ruling from the November 23 COFEX/COMEX hearing over whether Strateco Resources will be allowed to pursue a uranium exploration ramp in the Otish Mountains, tension has been building on both sides of the debate.
In the ...
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Strapped for cash since loosing one third of their funding with the Federal Government’s decision to put an end to the Aboriginal Healing Fund, the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal has since had no choice but to try and raise funds publicly.
Fortunately, about a year ago when the shelter’s Director, ...
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Aboriginals in the Val-d’Or area will now have the opportunity to get a leg up when it comes to starting out healthier lives as the city’s Native Friendship Centre (VDNFC) has just opened a new clinic.
Dubbed the Minowe Clinic, which in Algonquin means “being healthy,” the facility, located within the ...
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I was listening to JBCCS early-morning radio and there was an interesting homegrown song about love, which in many ways, reflects the mood at this time of year. Holiday wise, it’s just a few days past Groundhog Day, who, incidentally, emerged on a stormy cloudy day, and the thankful forecast ...
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On Monday, January 31, I attended the official opening of the Justice Building in Mistissini. It was impressive. The whole gang can be proud of this accomplishment. It’s another nail in the coffin of dependency. Self-governance is closer than ever and this is something that is recognized by all. But ...
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