Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,
The Mi’kmaw phrase of the week is…
“Wli Ankweyasi!”
🗣 (will-ee ahn-gweh-ya-see)
Meaning: take care of yourself!
In the News
- Inuit in Ottawa applaud Google’s latest addition to translation tool – CBC News
- Google adds first Indigenous language in Canada to its translation service – City News
- First Nations vote down resolution to endorse $47.8B child welfare reform offer – CBC News
- Northern Ont. First Nation protests after ancestral remains found during excavation – CTV News
- N.B. election: Blaine Higgs says Indigenous people ceded land ‘many, many years ago’ – Global News
- AFN vote on $47.8B child welfare reform deal doesn’t pass after lengthy debate – The Canadian Press
- ‘He’s really a go-getter’: Potlotek 11-year-old youth to host Mi’kmaq language-learning game nights – SaltWire
- Amber Jadis, founder of STEAM P.E.I. and Bricks 4 Kidz, remembered for visionary and creative spirit – SaltWire
- ‘Great opportunity now to reset:’ says Cindy Blackstock after chiefs vote against AFN deal on child welfare – APTN News
Politics & Law
- Wolastoqey chiefs accuse PCs of fear-mongering – CBC News
- Heiltsuk chief blasts Canada’s Indian status policy in UN speech – CBC News
- AFN to discuss next steps after child welfare reform deal is defeated – CFWE
- Canada settles agriculture benefit claims with First Nations for $1.4B – City News
- Canada, First Nations agree on unmet agricultural claims – The Western Producer
- Manitoba Métis MP announces he won’t run in next federal election – APTN News
- Sitansisk First Nation hosts community forum with N.B. political candidates – CBC News
- AFN national chief encourages chiefs to vote in favour of child welfare deal – APTN News
- Chiefs in Calgary pass resolution to re-negotiate child welfare deal with Ottawa – APTN News
- Saskatchewan NDP candidate urges Indigenous voters to get to the polls – The Canadian Press
- Legislation to handle miscarriages of justice in Canada could be law by Christmas – APTN News
- How will Indigenous voters cast their ballots in upcoming provincial elections? – Regina Leader Post
- 2 First Nations chiefs in Alberta want more dialogue, collaboration on child welfare deal – CBC News
- First Nations leaders call for overhaul of negotiation process for child welfare reform deal – CBC News
- How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism – CBC News
- AFN leader questions if Tories would top $47.8B child welfare reform offer, urges chiefs to back it – CBC News
- Renewed mandate gives First Nations bands ‘more significant voice’ related to mining activities – Castanet Kamloops
- Canada settles Agricultural Benefits specific claims with nine First Nations under Treaties 5, 6, and 10 – Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
- Renewal of interim understanding with Wasoqopa’q (Acadia), Annapolis Valley, Bear River and Glooscap First Nations to support moderate livelihood lobster fisheries – Newswire
- Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Concludes Special Chiefs Assembly on Long-Term Reform of the First Nations Child and Family Services (FNCFS) Program – Assembly of First Nations
Business, Finance & Economics
- Canada’s first majority-Indigenous investment dealer to launch – Investment Executive
- MPs furious over fraud in indigenous business contracting program – Western Standard
- First Nations cannabis industry continues to grow after 6 years of legalization in Canada – CBC News
Education, Health & Culture
- In photos: Dalhousie’s 14th annual Mawio’mi – Dal News
- Six Nations of the Grand River to open hospice facility – CBC News
- Six Nations to build Canada’s first Indigenous-led hospice – Brant Beacon
- Indigenous composers give water a voice in Nestaweya concert – APTN News
- Highland Village hosting screening of Dorothy Moore documentary Thursday – SaltWire
- Participants in Indigenous cultural exchange program to New Zealand feel ‘scammed’ – CBC News
- Confederation College opens new Indigenous outdoor learning space in Thunder Bay, Ont. – CBC News
- CMA apology a first step toward healing medical harms against Indigenous people, advocates say – CBC Radio
- ‘Food is at the centre of everything’: Mi’kmawey Debert recognizes Mi’kmaq history month with annual poster – SaltWire
Environment, Science & Technology
- Hunter wants to see elusive white moose protected across N.L. – CBC News
- Training, better equipment urged following wildland firefighter’s death – APTN News
- The artificial lake tearing apart a Nova Scotia community — and killing thousands of fish – The Narwhal
- Lake Pisiquid dispute leads to conflict over environmental rights in Nova Scotia – Environmental Health News
- First Nations say governments should give fewer subsidies to fossil fuels and far more to nature-based climate solutions – NOW Newswatch