IndigeNews: Mar. 20 – 26, 2023

A Canadian Indigenous News Update from L’nuey

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend, the Mi’kmaq word of the week is…

“Sapikmik”

Meaning: slush; wet snow; soft snow

In The News

  1. Mi’kmaq MP succeeds in riding change dispute – APTN News
  2. Search for graves at Yukon residential school site planned for this summer – CBC News
  3. Manitoba creates new provincewide approach for finding missing people – APTN News
  4. Splatsin First Nation pens B.C.’s 1st child welfare agreement with federal government – CBC News
  5. Video game company is using technology to tell stories based on Cape Breton’s history – CBC News
  6. 20 QUESTIONS: With Mi’kmaw artist Melissa Peter-Paul of Abegweit First Nation – SaltWire Network
  7.  Northern Ontario First Nations claim up to $150 billion over ‘flagrant disregard’ of 1850 treaty – Toronto Star
  8. Feds fund efforts to tackle disproportionate number of Indigenous, racialized people in Canadian prisons – National Observer

Politics & Law

  1. Manitoba MP calls for ‘urgent help’ for First Nations in crisis – APTN News
  2. NDP MP challenges the feds over residential school compensation – APTN News
  3. Initiatives to support racialized people in the criminal justice system – APTN News
  4. Tuma Young: Where language and legal tradition meet – Canadian Bar Association
  5. Elizabeth May tells Nation to Nation that Imperial Oil should be charged – APTN News
  6. ‘Unreasonable, invalid and unlawful’: Fish farm company challenges feds – APTN News
  7. Yukon First Nation aims to develop alternative justice system for some crimes – CBC News
  8. Maintaining the Canadian legal system is obstructing justice for Indigenous peoples – CBC News
  9. Court gives MN-S nod to challenge Saskatchewan’s duty to consult with Métis – Penticton Herald
  10. Nations in British Columbia sign agreement to take over jurisdiction of child welfare – APTN News
  11. Committee grills minister on failure to support First Nations during climate emergencies – CBC News
  12. B.C. First Nations file court case against federal decision not to renew salmon farm licences – CBC News
  13. Legislation needed to protect private land that may have possible school gravesites: Murray – APTN News
  14. 1492 Landback Lane’s Skylar Williams appealing court decision ordering him to pay 70,000 in damages – Turtle Island News
  15. Canada’s highest court refuses to hear appeal on many millions of dollars charged by Alberta law firm to First Nation – Windspeaker

Business, Finance & Economics

  1. First Nations Finance Authority’s solution to address infrastructure on reserve – APTN News
  2. First Nation on Vancouver Island to open 1st Indigenous-led Starbucks in Canada – CBC News
  3. Ernie Daniels: How Ottawa could turn $200 million into $4 billion for Indigenous infrastructure – Financial Post
  4. First Nations Financial Authority calls for partnership over paternalism to close on-reserve infrastructure gap – Windspeaker

Education, Health & Culture

  1. Two-Spirit Day officially recognized in British Columbia – APTN News
  2. They’re not Indigenous — but they’re learning Indigenous languages – CBC Radio
  3. Manitoba First Nation enforcing new measures to combat drug crisis – CTV News
  4. Ten years ago, Cree youth walked 1,600 km to Ottawa in the dead of winter – CBC News
  5. Manitoba licence plate in the works for families of MMIWG and Two-Spirit people – APTN News
  6. New Indigenous-led child development program coming to Waterloo region this spring – CBC News
  7. First Nations researcher exploring psychedelics as healing tool for intergenerational trauma – CBC News
  8. From Île-à-la-Crosse to Brighton, England: ’60s Scoop survivors map journey of reconnection – CBC News
  9. ‘Heartbreak and outrage’: Sask. First Nation leaders in B.C. to discuss taking over child welfare – CBC News
  10. First Nation chooses affluent Vancouver launch pad to reform Indigenous child welfare – Terrace Standard
  11. Bison bone found in Prince Albert, Sask., area points to human life there more than 8,000 years ago – CBC News

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. Rebuild of N.W.T. climate research station ramps up – CBC News
  2. World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning – APTN News
  3. NWT Indigenous leaders call for investigation of oil sands’ impacts – Cabin Radio
  4. ‘We are probably going to be the first oil sands environmental refugees’ – APTN News
  5. Canadian govt to fund 200-MW wind project on First Nations lands – Renewables Now
  6. Oneida, long under boil-water advisory, getting $43M supply upgrade – London Free Press
  7. Anger, fear and questions mark a meeting in Fort Chipewyan with Imperial Oil – APTN News
  8. First Nation in northern Alberta reports Kearl mine leak ‘worse’ than expected – APTN News
  9. Canada moves forward with $7.3bn LNG facility led by First Nations people – Global Construction Review
  10. Feds to provide bottled water, mental health services to First Nations dealing with tailings pond leak – APTN News
  11. B.C.’s latest LNG approval sends mixed messages about commitments to climate and Indigenous rights – The Mirror

Wela’lioq, Msit No’kmaq – Thank you, All My Relations

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  1. The contest is open to all persons who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/howwesayhome, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on November 6, 2023 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on March 4, 2024 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on March 12, 2024.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

‘Definition of Home’ Contest Rules

  1. The contest is open to all persons who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/ourhome, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on July 17, 2023 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on September 30, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on October 6, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

‘Shaping the Epekwitk of Tomorrow’ Contest Rules

  1. The contest is open to all Mi’kmaq who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/progress, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on January 23, 2022 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on April 30, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on May 8, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

‘Connected by Home’ Contest Rules

  1. The contest is open to all persons who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/connected, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on December 12, 2022 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on January 31, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on February 6, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

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