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Biden at last visits Indian Country, where he will apologize for 150-year-old boarding school policy
President Joe Biden is using his long-promised first presidential visit to Indian Country to formally apologize to Native ...
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Canada wide warrant issued for federal offender serving time for Sexual Interference conviction
The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (R.O.P.E.) Squad is  seeking the public’s help in locating  a federal offender ...
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Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policy
President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling ...
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MAiD and marginalized people: Coroner’s reports shed light on assisted death in Ontario
By Karandeep Sonu Gaind  Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Earlier this month, the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario released new reports highlighting some of the reasons some ...
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Toxic waste project on hold amid environmental concerns and unified resistance from area leaders
By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Manitoulin Expositor AGNEW LAKE—The contentious plan to transport niobium tailings to the Agnew Lake Tailings Management Area (ALTMA) ...
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Salluit 4-year-old suffers months-long eye infection with no referral south
By Cedric Galant/Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A Salluit family fears four-year-old Isaiah Tayara Saviadjuk might have lasting complications from an eye infection after struggling for two ...
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Brazil reaches $23 billion settlement with mining firms over 2015 environmental disaster
Brazil’s federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the country’s worst-ever ...
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Family fears drug dealers may have abducted missing M’Chigeeng woman amid Island’s growing drug crisis
M’CHIGEENG—The disappearance of Juanita Migwans, a 30-year-old First Nations woman last seen on October 2 in M’Chigeeng First Nation, has her family fearing the worst. Her loved ones believe she may ...
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We discovered a new fossil species of prehistoric fish
The Conversation What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don’t look alike, and they aren’t biologically related, but part of their ...
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First Nations player continues to have a leading role with another OHL club
By Sam Laskaris Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Many thought that Dalyn Wakely would be moving on after he racked up ...
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Manitoban artist has fond memories of Baker Lake
They are portraits of beautiful images frozen in time. Manitoban photographer and pencil artist Gerald Kuehl spent a lot of ...
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Families call for inquiry after nine Indigenous people killed in police interactions
A group of Black and Indigenous women say they want a national public inquiry into a recent spate of police-involved deaths, ...