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Freeland says $5 billion just a start for Indigenous loan guarantee program

By Ian Bickis THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO– The $5-billion announced for an Indigenous loan guarantee program in last week’s budget is just a start, said Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. “Nothing would make me happier than seeing that $5-billion oversubscribed and needing to put in place even more,” she said, speaking to media at the First Nations Major Projects Coalition conference in Toronto on Tuesday. The program is designed to help Indigenous communities buy equity in natural resource and energy…

Editorial

When a secret meeting really is a secret…

Hmmm… so Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) says they didn’t keep a meeting with mayors from…

Our place in the universe

Doomsday, the world’s end …or just child like wonder!

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Special Reports

Historical stereotypes challenged in reconstruction of Haudenosaunee armour

By Lisa Iesse Writer HAMILTON – A Six Nations man’s reconstruction of 400-year-old Haudenosaunee armour speaks…

The Feather Report – Black & White and Red All Over

The Feather Report Summer Blues

Press Releases

City launches Digital Service Squad to help small businesses adopt online technologies

Brantford, ON – In partnership with the Downtown Brantford BIA, the Brantford-Brant Business Resource Enterprise Centre…

New First Nations Report Details Groundbreaking Dialogue around Native Stewardship of Lands, Natural Resources and Sacred Sites

Statement by Minister Wilson-Raybould on the accomplishments of 2016

World News

What to know about the Morocco earthquake and the efforts to help

By Sam Metz THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An earthquake has sown destruction and devastation in Morocco, where death and injury counts continue to rise as rescue crews dig out people both alive and dead in villages that were reduced to rubble. Law enforcement and aid workers, both Moroccan and international, have arrived in the region south of Marrakech that was hardest hit by the magnitude-6.8 tremor Friday night and several aftershocks. Residents await food, water and electricity, and giant boulders now block steep mountain roads. Here’s what you need to know:…

Cree Nation pushes for more representation at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Covid-19

Meet the Chiefs: Delaware Nation/EELÜNAAPÉEWI LAHKÉEWIIT Chief Denise Stonefish: 90% of community vaccinated

By Victoria Gray Writer The Delaware Nation at Moraviantown has fared pretty well through the COVID-19…

Six Nations rolling out new colour coded COVID-19 chart, one active case

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