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Weaponized by PCs, sidelined by NDP: Indigenous concerns largely absent from Manitoba election Social Sharing Facebook Twitter Email Reddit LinkedIn
Indigenous voters will have to wait for the next election to see substantive dialogue With Indigenous population growth outpacing the rest of the province, there may come a year where the needs of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples will be front and centre in a Manitoba election campaign. This was not that year. One of the two leading parties in this province spent the last 12 days of the formal election period campaigning for votes based of its opposition to searching the Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg, for the remains ofRead more
Slow, unreliable and pricey: CRTC gets earful about northern internet
CRTC is holding hearings in Whitehorse through the week Slow and spotty connections, prolonged outages, high prices and few options for service providers. Those were some problems with northern internet that intervenors expressed to the Canadian telecommunications regulator at a hearing Monday on telecommunications in the North. “It’s mostly the Indigenous people who don’t have [internet] services,” Brenda Norris, who directs an Indigenous family internet initiative for the Native Women’s Association of the NWT, told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). “There’s a certain unfairness in the fact that theseRead more
Vianne Timmons removed as president of Memorial University
Board of regents made announcement Thursday afternoon in MUN’s Gazette Memorial University of Newfoundland’s governing body has removed president and vice-chancellor Vianne Timmons from her position. The move comes after Timmons announced on March 13 she was taking a voluntary, six-week paid leave of absence from the president’s office amid public scrutiny following a CBC News investigation into her statements on her Indigenous ancestry and past membership in an unrecognized Mi’kmaw First Nation group. In a statement to MUN’s Gazette on Thursday afternoon, board of regents chair Glenn Barnes announced Timmons is leaving as of Thursday.Read more