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‘These divide-and-conquer tactics are destroying us’: Matawa First Nations reflect on Doug Ford’s Ring of Fire legacy
By , Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ricochet The same day Premier Doug Ford called an early election, his government announced it had reached a $20-million deal with Aroland First Nation that ...
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Sentence set for ex-priest who pleaded guilty to assaults on Nunavut children
CP-A judge is set to sentence a former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to indecent assault against seven Inuit children more than four decades ago. Crown and defence lawyers have jointly ...
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B.C. extends deferral of logging in Fairy Creek amid reports of tree spiking
The British Columbia government has approved a legal order to extend temporary protections to an old-growth forest on Vancouver Island even as the minister of forests acknowledged that the RCMP are ...
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‘Staggering’ number of families struggle in B.C.’s system for disabled kids: advocate
British Columbia’s children’s representative says the province is at a “threshold moment” for fixing an underfunded and fragmented system of supports for children with disabilities that is almost ...
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Remote Ontario community breaks free from diesel dependency
By Matteo Cimellaro, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A northern Ontario First Nation is celebrating the connection to the province’s power grid today after an ambitious transmission line through ...
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B.C. Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin wraps up seven-year post
British Columbia’s lieutenant-governor is leaving office after seven years on the job, with Premier David Eby telling her farewell ceremony that her focus on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples was ...