New partnership facilitates real estate and development opportunities
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – A new strategic partnership has been formed that will support Indigenous communities in pursuing real estate…
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RMWB COVID outbreak is unmanageable and Kenny’s derogatory comment is palpable
By Jake Cardinal (April 28, 2021) – Alberta has reached its second highest total of active cases since the pandemic began with 20,938 active cases….
Hummingbirds Delay Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline By Months, Add Millions to Price Tag
April 26, 2021, Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Burnaby, BC)— A four month federal stop work order has been issued on Trans Mountain’s pipeline construction, the…
Treaty 8 Grand Chief Arthur Noskey Calls for Suspension of New Forestry Legislation
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta are calling on the Alberta Government to suspend new…
First Nations sue Alberta for alleged conflict of interest in the casino industry
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Two First Nations located in Alberta — the Tsuut’ina Nation and the Stoney Nakoda Nation —have…
AWA Calls for a Federal Impact Assessment of the Tent Mountain Coal Mine Project
(March 30, 2021) – Alberta Wilderness Association has requested that Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson conduct a federal impact assessment of the Tent…
Esquao Awards will return this year on May 21
by Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The Institute for Advancement of Aboriginal Women is bringing its Esquao Annual Awards Gala back from…
Attention Metis students: The BBMA application deadline is March 31
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The application deadline for a Belcourt Brosseau Métis Award (BBMA), for a scholarship for students of…
Petition calling for a halt to coal mining presented in parliament
By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – A petition with thousands of signatures from across the country is asking the federal government to…
Raylene Whitford appointed to federal task force on Women in the Economy
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – On March 8, International Women’s Day, a federal task force on Women in the Economy was…