Tag: indigenous
Rezoning for urban Indigenous housing project approved
News Local News The Sarnia-Lambton Native Friendship Center is getting an upgrade, as is the affordable housing supply for the area’s urban Indigenous population. Rezoning has been approved for a…
indigenous people keep the pressure on the government
Thousands of members of Ecuador’s indigenous peoples maintain pressure on the government of Guillermo Lasso. This is the 10th day of protests in the capital Quito, partly paralyzed by protesters.…
Indigenous room at Sarnia high school getting results
News Local News Kim Henry, a retired educator from Aamjiwnaang First Nation, stands in the Den, an Indigenous room at Great Lakes secondary school in Sarnia that has been named…
Suspect admits: Killed indigenous experts in the Amazon
A British journalist and a Brazilian origin expert disappeared in the Amazon on June 5. Now the bodies may have been found – after a suspect admitted that he murdered…
indigenous leader leading protests released in Ecuador
In Ecuador, protests against rising fuel prices, and more generally the government’s economic policy, continue. The president of Conaie, the country’s largest indigenous organization, was briefly arrested on Tuesday. Police…
An indigenous community obtains the cancellation of a mega wind project of EDF
On June 2, the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission canceled the electricity supply contract of the Mexican subsidiary of the French giant EDF. In fact, this amounts to canceling the construction…
Indigenous peoples under threat | Case
Deforestation, modernism, poaching, disease… The threats hanging over isolated tribes are numerous, whether in Brazil, Peru or the Andaman Islands. In this file, the organization Survival recounts their contacts with…
Training program plugs Indigenous youth into skilled trades career path
Ever since she first learned about skilled trades in high school, Taylor Riley knew she wanted to become an electrician. “I started leaning toward electrical when I took a Grade…
Six Nations council calls for inquest in death of Indigenous woman
The elected council of Six Nations of the Grand River has added its voice to calls for a coroner’s inquest into the death of a 24-year-old St. Catharines, Ont., woman.…
Scandal in Canada! They forcibly sterilized thousands of indigenous women.
In the news on CTV, it was stated that in each of the provincial courts of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec, there are 5 lawsuits filed against thousands…