Wawatay News

On November 1, the Toronto Maple Leafs and MLSE Foundation will raise awareness for reconciliation and honour Indigenous people in Canada who have lost their lives to residential school and suicide, and to the missing and murdered Indigenous women.

The ceremony will take place at the Air Canada Centre when the Leafs face-off against the visiting Edmonton Oilers.

The initiative reflects the organization’s continued support of Indigenous communities, and especially the youth, across Canada.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and CBC Thunder Bay Executive Producer Michael Dick are pleased to invite all members of the Thunder Bay community and surrounding area to watch CBC’s premiere broadcast of Gord Downie’s The Secret Path animated film at a free community event this weekend.

Former Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is among four dead following a plane crash.

Prentice was aboard a small plane that disappeared after taking off from Kelowna. The craft’s wreckage was later found near Winfield, British Columbia.

The 60-year-old served as Alberta’s Premier until May 2015, and was a federal cabinet minister for six years starting in 2004. He served as MP for Calgary Centre-North from 2004 to 2010, with stints as industry minister, environment minister.

Kashechewan First Nation Chief Leo Friday and Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler have released the following statements after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have laid charges against Giuseppe Crupi, of Thunder Bay, for misappropriation of federal funding for a breakfast program for children in the remote community.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada’s (PSAC) bargaining team and the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) have secured a tentative labour agreement. NAPS officers voted overwhelming in favour of a strike mandate on July 12, 2016.

“I am very proud of our bargaining team for all their work and to the officers who stood strong and lobbied their provincial and federal political representatives to fund First Nations policing effectively”, says Sharon DeSousa, PSAC Regional Executive Vice President for Ontario.