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Environment commissioner says liability for northern contaminated sites growing

By Alessia Passafiume  The Canadian Press Ottawa’s slow progress to remediate contaminated sites in the North is leaving Indigenous Peoples at risk and raising the government’s own financial liability for the polluted  areas, environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco said Tuesday in a new audit. DeMarco’s probe found that the government’s liability for contaminated sites increased by $7 billion since 2005, when the government launched its plan to remediate and reclaim abandoned mines. More than 60 per cent of that liability is…

Editorial

Pssst… there’s a minister here, but don’t tell anyone!

Six Nations Elected councillors may have learned a quick lesson during their council session last week.…

Council Helen Miller: Election code says its last term on council

Thank you/ Nia:weh for helping the earth!

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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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