Tag: First Nations
Feds to give provinces $2B to bolster safe reopening of schools...
OTTAWA — The growing level of anxiety experienced by parents and teachers over reopening schools during a global pandemic have reached the ears of highest...
Pandemic has shunted aside an array of Liberal initiatives, at least...
OTTAWA — As a new year dawned, the government’s throne-speech commitments, unfurled just weeks earlier, were grabbing headlines and galvanizing the attention of federal policy-makers.
Then...
Concerns raised over COVID-19 outbreak plans for Indigenous communities
Ottawa’s plans to respond to possible COVID-19 outbreaks in remote, fly-in and already vulnerable Indigenous communities are getting a failing grade from opposition politicians who say...
Feds fight ruling on compensation for failures in First Nations child...
OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs are expressing outrage and disappointment at the federal government’s decision to appeal a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to...
AGCO Cannabis Store Lottery: Georgina Island FN not among winners
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) announced this week the results of the First Nations cannabis authorization lottery, which will allow the...
The Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation set to open cannabis...
By: Mike Anderson
Georgina is about to get its first pot shop, but it won’t be located in the municipality. Instead, it will be on...
