A Canadian Indigenous News Update from L’nuey
Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,
the Mi’kmaq word of the week is…
“Wi’katikn”
(wee-gahdign)
Meaning: Book 📕
In the News
- Louis Riel is about to be declared the first premier of Manitoba – APTN News
- Indigenous economy surging toward $100B, Indigenous leaders say – CBC News
- Mi’kmaq fishers say feds aren’t listening to their concerns about safety – APTN News
- Indigenous rights collide with $35B Western Canada pipeline expansion – Global News
- Deck modification led to fatal capsizing of First Nation fishing vessel: TSB report – City News
- DFO, four Mi’kmaw nations renew interim agreement to harvest lobster | APTN News – Youtube
- N.S. First Nations to exercise right to moderate livelihood during upcoming lobster season – CBC News
- DFO, First Nations at odds over treaty fishery as lobster season about to open in Southwest Nova – SaltWire
- Moderate livelihood understanding renewed before Southwest Nova Scotia lobster season opens – SaltWire
Politics & Law
- TFN and TAA begin legal action over Pond Lake cabin – Penticton Herald
- Chiefs say they need more traps after DFO agreement announced – APTN News
- First Nations in northeastern Ontario and their $10-billion dilemma – Sudbury Star
- New federal water legislation aims to do better on Indigenous rights – APTN News
- Nunatsiavut government withdraws from Furey’s Indigenous roundtable – CBC News
- Poor Inuit housing ‘direct result of colonialism’: federal housing advocate – APTN News
- 2 Manitoba cabinet ministers honoured as history makers for First Nations women – CBC News
- Moe signs memorandums of understanding to strengthen gun rights for Sask. Métis – CBC News
- Province reverses policy withholding ‘specific claims’ from First Nations people – Northeast Now
- First Nations remain committed to protecting their Inherent and Treaty Rights – Anishinabek News
- Treaty 8 chiefs suing Alberta, Canada over stolen children’s special allowance benefit – APTN News
- Proposed lawsuit alleges Alberta government wrongfully kept money meant for kids in care – CBC News
- Statement – Canada launches an Indigenous Advisory Process on broader reform of the Indian Act – Newswire
- Court hears Yukon government appeal over quashing of exploration project in Beaver River watershed – CBC News
- Sask. First Nations call on province, feds to rescind policy that withholds income assistance for recipients – CBC News
Business, Finance & Economics
- Indigenous tourism businesses to receive new federal funding – Windspeaker
- Proposed utility corridor revealed at Indigenous economic conference – Windspeaker
- Indigenous loan guarantee applauded by major projects coalition – Business in Vancouver
- First Nation leader provides Mi’kmaw worldview of economic reconciliation – Windspeaker
- Indigenous organization ‘disappointed’ with feds’ announcement on affordable housing – APTN News
- Panel on capitalization of the Indigenous economy encourages taking time to get it right – Windspeaker
- Assembly of First Nations Responds to Federal Government’s Fall Economic Statement – Assembly of First Nations
- Bayside Development Corporation named as one of the “Top 10 To Watch” Indigenous Businesses in Canada – 989 XFM
Education, Health & Culture
- Learn to make a healthy meal with Indigenous ingredients – CBC Radio
- Global Ozempic shortage affects First Nations communities – CBC News
- Mi’kmaw students at NSCC Strait Area Campus make ribbon skirts – SaltWire
- ‘Kiknu’ long-term care facility aims to redefine Elder care in Eskasoni – SaltWire
- Wolastoqey first, English second: Kehkimin launches new curriculum – CBC News
- Vancouver Island First Nation votes to reclaim authority over child and family services – CTV News
- Naming streets and buildings with Indigenous languages an act of reconciliation: activists – CBC News
- Remembering the Mi’kmaq: A Gambo teacher and her class explore the history of a cemetery – CBC News
- Buffy Sainte-Marie pushes back against CBC investigation contradicting claims to Indigenous ancestry – CBC News
Environment, Science & Technology
- Alberta Energy Regulator needs to do its job, says First Nations chief – APTN News
- Hunters in Nunavut encouraged to report any ‘abnormalities’ in caribou meat – APTN News
- Divers swimming with salmon in remote B.C. streams to enhance conservation – Clearwater Times
- Third Imperial Oil infraction raises Indigenous communities’ environmental alarm bells – APTN News
- First Nation in Yukon says its ‘disheartening’ that territory appealed ruling on Beaver River Watershed – APTN News
- ‘We’re facing extinction as a people in our territory’: Indigenous leaders from Bay St. George South and Port au Port Peninsula say wind energy project is needed – SaltWire