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Six Nations Police Project PANDA seizes over $9 million in contraband tobacco and illegal cannabis in massive plant shutdown
Six Nations shut down an illegal tobacco and cannabis operation on Chiefswood Road in March seizing over $9 million in ...
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‘Cows and plows:’ The settlement over a broken Indigenous treaty shows the urgent need for more transparent governance
By Jas M. Morgan Members of the Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve (TTR) in Manitoba recently voted to ratify the Treaty 4 Agricultural Benefits Settlement Agreement. Commonly known as the “cows and ...
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‘Different from a textbook’: Doig Day returns in 2025 to educate kids about Indigenous culture and language
By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca DOIG RIVER, B.C. — With a little wind in the air, school buses parked in an area on the grounds of Doig River First Nation (DRFN) ...
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Trump hosts top crypto investors as some industry leaders fear he’s putting personal profits first
President Donald Trump rewarded top investors in one of his cryptocurrency projects with a swanky dinner on Thursday night, an event that showed the ascendance of an emerging financial industry — and ...
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Indigenous Amazon tribe says New York Times story led to its members being smeared as porn addicts
An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued The New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as ...
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Trump tariff threats on EU, Apple, send US futures and global markets skidding
By Jiang Junzhe And Matt Ott U.S. futures and global markets slumped Friday after President Donald Trump posted a pair of tariff threats on social media, one aimed at Apple and the other at the ...
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Manitoba Tory loses critic duties but will remain in caucus after ethics probe
By Steve Lambert A Manitoba Progressive Conservative has been stripped of his critic duties in the wake of a report from the province’s ethics commissioner. Jeff Wharton is one of three Tories who ...
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Ottawa has to allow home prices to fall to make housing more affordable, experts say
By Craig Lord Housing experts are pushing back against a federal cabinet minister’s recent claim that home prices don’t need to go down in order to restore housing affordability. Gregor Robertson, the ...
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‘I put a lot of hard work into what I own’: Vandals smash windshield of Fort St. John man’s Indigenous-inspired vehicle
By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — A local Indigenous resident is appreciative of the positive messages he’s received from the community after ...
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Tribes say the U.S. misappropriated funds to pay for Native American boarding schools
By Graham Lee Brewer Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit Thursday saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children ...
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Vancouver Island land returned to Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes
A stretch of culturally significant land in the Cowichan Valley has been returned to the Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes communities. The British Columbia government says the return of the ...
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Ontario insists it will consult with First Nations on controversial mining bill
By Liam Casey Ontario is insisting it will consult with First Nations over a proposed bill that would suspend provincial and municipal laws in areas it designates as so-called special economic zones.