Media Clips
Please see below for upcoming events and 2021 Federal Election Media Clips.
Ontario reports nearly 800 new COVID-19 cases; highest tally since early June
August 27, 2021
Ontario reported nearly 800 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and three new deaths; the highest count seen since shortly after the province exited its stay-at-home order in early June.
Why aren’t we talking about Indigenous communities during Canada’s election campaign?
August 26, 2021
Canada’s federal election campaign was out of step with reality as soon as it began. If you turned on the news in the past couple weeks, you’ve seen slick images of leaders travelling around the country in planes and colourful buses, giving their soundbites to make promises that will inevitably be broken.
NAN Welcomes Landmark Decision Ordering Canada to Pay Capital Costs for Child Welfare
August 26, 2021
Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Bobby Narcisse welcomes a landmark interim decision released by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT/Tribunal) today ordering the Government of Canada to pay the actual costs of capital purchases and/or constructions required to deliver child welfare services in First Nations communities.
Political Office update: Summer 2021
August 26, 2021
The first two months into this term have been a very positive start and we have become acquainted with our roles, colleagues, and the Anishinabek Nation First Nations.
https://anishinabeknews.ca/2021/08/26/political-office-update-summer-2021/
Anishinabek Nation pushes Amazon to take down ‘harmful’ wall sign
August 27, 2021
Anishinabek Nation has pushed Amazon to take down a wall-art plaque that referenced harmful stereotypes about Indigenous people. The sign used discriminatory language in reference to Indigenous people and alcohol consumption, and contained a location stamp from Oklahoma in the American frontier era.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/anishinabek-nation-take-down-amazon-sign-1.6154728
Wunnumin Lake Leaders Call for Assistance Following Tragedies in Remote Community
August 26, 2021
Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Derek Fox supports a plea for assistance issued today by Wunnumin Lake First Nation Chief Sam Mamakwa following a series of tragedies in the remote community.
Wildfires disproportionately threatening First Nations and worst could be yet to come, study finds
August 26, 2021
First Nations communities are disproportionately threatened by wildfires, a study finds, with people who live on reserves making up nearly one-third of all evacuees in Canada since the 1950s.
It’s game on for Indigenous kids with bags of hockey equipment on the way
August 27, 2021
Hundreds of bags full of hockey equipment will be distributed Saturday from a south-end Barrie storage facility to First Nations communities who are in need of some gear, all because of a chance meeting in a hockey arena parking lot.
New Duchesnay Creek Bridge smudged for ribbon cutting
August 27, 2021
Nipissing First Nation Elder Evelyn Mcleod smudged the new Duchesnay Creek Bridge while Nipissing First Nation Councillor Joan Mcleod Shabogesic walked quickly across the new bridge to be able to look down at Duchesnay Creek flowing into Lake Nipissing.
https://anishinabeknews.ca/2021/08/27/new-duchesnay-creek-bridge-smudged-for-ribbon-cutting/
Ryerson University decides to change name amid reckoning on Indigenous residential schools
August 26, 2021
Ryerson University will change its name following a recommendation from a special task force that examined the legacy of its namesake, Egerton Ryerson. The task force concluded the university should be renamed to better reflect the values and diversity of the institution.
As Canada reckons with its treatment of Indigenous children, I mourn my friend Joey
August 26, 2021
On a clear September evening at 5:14 p.m. in the west end of Toronto, my friend Joey Commanda was struck and killed by a commuter train. He was 13. The train was moving east at 65 mph toward the central rail yards and Union Station, carrying passengers homeward after a Labor Day weekend in 1968. Joey, less than five feet tall and weighing about 90 pounds, was also on his way home, a trek he began when he fled the notorious Mohawk Institute, one of Canada’s 130 residential schools for Indigenous children.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/27/indegenous-mohawk-institute-canada-joey-commanda/
COVID-19 outbreak causes scare after all-Indigenous national hockey tournament
August 26, 2021
Members of a Cree hockey team in Quebec and their families are isolating near Ottawa after eight of them tested positive for COVID-19 on their way home from an all-Indigenous hockey tournament in Saskatchewan.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-hockey-sasakamoose-tournament-covid-19-1.6154915
‘The most greatest assets are our babies’: Sask. First Nation unveils youth centre
August 26, 2021
Montreal Lake Cree Nation (MLCN) has opened a new recreation centre aimed at empowering its young members. Chief and council unveiled the Roy H. Bird Memorial Youth Centre on Wednesday, named after a former chief and advocate for sports and recreation. They’re also working on a second youth centre on the Little Red River Reserve.
Indigenous-led business provides much-needed supplies and creates new income source for community
August 26, 2021
COVID-19 left many indigenous communities without adequate access to resources. Michael Newman explains how a Saskatchewan council took matters into their own hands, providing those resources while also creating a new revenue stream.
Record number of Indigenous students begin medical school at University of Manitoba
August 26, 2021
As they begin their first year of medical school, two Métis women have aspirations of helping Indigenous people access better and more equitable health care in Manitoba.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/record-indigenous-medical-students-manitoba-1.6153753
Beauval RCMP looking for missing 12-year-old
August 27, 2021
The Beauval RCMP said they’re searching for a 12-year-old girl, reported missing on Wednesday night. A news release said Tracy Buffin was last seen at an event around 10 p.m. CST in Canoe Lake First Nation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/beauval-rcmp-looking-missing-12-yo-1.6155538
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s president says it’s ‘a transformative time’; here’s what he wants to do next
August 27, 2021
Natan Obed will serve a third — and final — term as the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), the national organization representing the Inuit, after he was acclaimed at the end of the nomination period on Aug. 18.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/q-a-with-itk-president-natan-obed-1.6152659
‘Remember the children’: Planning underway for residential school memorial in Calgary
August 26, 2021
Plans are underway to create a permanent memorial for victims of Canada’s residential schools to replace a fire-damaged one that includes hundreds of children’s shoes on the steps of Calgary City Hall.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8144495/calgary-city-hall-residential-school-memorial-permanent/
Canada’s Indigenous tours amplify under heard voices
August 26, 2021
The Spirit Bear Lodge in British Columbia offers visitors a variety of cultural and outdoor experiences. As an Indigenous guide, Joe Urie offers an experience different from typical tours of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.
Pipe ceremony held at Calgary City Hall to start planning a permanent residential school memorial
August 26, 2021
A pipe ceremony was held at Calgary’s City Hall on Thursday to mark a commitment from the city to work with Indigenous communities to create a permanent memorial for residential school victims.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-city-hall-residential-schools-memorial-1.6154942
Dozens of Indigenous kids learn to golf from the pros in Fort McMurray
August 26, 2021
Dozens of Indigenous kids in Fort McMurray learned to putt, drive and chip from professionals this week at a special golf camp. Trent Shott, CEO of Kanatech Industrial, came up with the idea for a golf camp five years ago.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/golf-fort-mcmurray-indigenous-1.6153758
Artists going for ‘Wow’ factor with MMIWG mural
August 26, 2021
An artist-at-work sign sits on the sidewalk outside the Kermode Friendship Centre in downtown Terrace, B.C. It’s a way to signal that work on a large mural about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is getting underway.
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/artists-going-for-wow-factor-with-mmiwg-mural/
‘The child-welfare system is residential schools part two,’ says lawyer
August 26, 2021
Roslyn Chambers says she first began drawing connections between residential “schools” and Canada’s child-welfare system during law school. It was the early 2010’s, and she was studying law at Dalhousie University in Halifax. After learning that her peers didn’t know about Canada’s residential “school” system or the Sixties Scoop — something Chambers believes everyone should know about — she started a discussion group.
‘He was so much to so many’: Indigenous rights advocate Barney Masuzumi dies at 72
August 26, 2021
Barney Masuzumi, whose writing and leadership empowered Indigenous people across the Northwest Territories and beyond, died Saturday in Yellowknife. He was 72 years old.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/barney-masuzumi-obituary-1.6152827
Fort Simpson residents still waiting on repairs 3 months after flood
August 26, 2021
As winter nears, many residents who evacuated their properties in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., after a devastating flood in May are still waiting to go home.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fort-simpson-flood-response-1.6153202
Long-time Nunavut editor and award-winning writer Jim Bell dies in Ottawa
August 26, 2021
Some people poke holes in things because they take pleasure in seeing them fall. Jim Bell poked holes because he wanted everyone to see the weaknesses. So they could be fixed.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/long-time-nunavut-editor-award-205721619.html
Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Is Focus of Dateline NBC Special
August 25, 2021
Across more than 300 reservations populated by the nation’s Native Americans, violence against women has become epidemic. For Indigenous females aged 19 and younger, murder is the third leading cause of death, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://people.com/crime/dateline-nbc-special-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-epidemic/
2021 Federal Election
Where the main party leaders are on Day 13 of the federal election campaign
August 27, 2021
Here’s what you need to know about where the leaders of Canada’s major political parties are on Day 13 of the election campaign. You can watch streaming video of available live events on this page throughout the day. All times are eastern time (ET) unless otherwise noted.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2021-where-the-leaders-are-day-13-1.6154958
Election ’21: Candidates’ views on top issues
August 26, 2021
The Lake Report interviewed all the candidates in the Niagara Falls riding for the Sept. 20 federal election. We asked them three identical questions to provide our readers with a sense of the candidates’ views and their stance on issues facing Niagara-on-the-Lake.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/election-21-candidates-views-top-160851404.html
Trudeau promises to boost federal income supplement for low-income seniors
August 26, 2021
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau announced today a plan to increase guaranteed income supplement (GIS) payments by $500 a year for eligible seniors — a boost the party says would benefit more than two million people over the age of 65.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-boost-pension-payments-1.6154131
Truth Tracker: Will the Liberal plan to ban blind bidding make homes more affordable, and can they even pull it off?
August 26, 2021
The housing market in Canada, while cooling off over the past few months, has been as hot as an August heatwave for the better part of two years.
Trudeau and Singh to campaign in Ontario; O’Toole to visit two Atlantic provinces
August 27, 2021
The Liberal and NDP leaders are expected to be in Ontario for Day 13 of the federal election campaign, while the head of the Conservatives is to spend time in two Atlantic provinces.
Flags lowered after reports of residential school graves should be raised now, O’Toole says
August 26, 2021
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says flags on federal buildings, which have been at half-mast since hundreds of unmarked graves were reported at former residential schools last spring, should be raised.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/erin-otoole-flags-half-mast-1.6154417
Conservatives say their ‘virtual’ campaign strategy is paying off already
August 27, 2021
When the election was called earlier this month, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole was ready for his close up. His party had even built its own studio for it.
Conservatives announce support for gig workers as NDP tackles housing market
August 26, 2021
Erin O’Toole says that a Conservative government led by him would offer support to people he claims were ignored by the federal programs launched in response to the global pandemic: gig workers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-gig-workers-ndp-housing-market-1.6154572
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh makes housing promises with Indigenous candidates
August 26, 2021
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh reiterated housing commitments as he made election campaign stops in Winnipeg targeting ridings with significant Indigenous populations that he hopes to win over.
NDP Leader to visit Thunder Bay, meet with Indigenous leaders
August 27, 2021
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday will become the first party to leader to visit Thunder Bay during the 2021 federal election.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on party platform and Indigenous federal election issues (Interview)
August 26, 2021
In the run-up to the federal election vote on September 20, APTN News is hoping to speak one-on-one with all of the leaders of the federal parties. Today, we were joined in studio by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
Wealthy Singh’s ‘life experience’ a far cry from that of most Indigenous Canadians
August 27, 2021
At a campaign stop at the Cowessess First Nation in southern Saskatchewan, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh expressed his commitment to Indigenous issues by way of contrast with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. In particular, by contrasting life experiences.
How the four main federal parties plan to fight climate crisis
August 27, 2021
Climate change will almost certainly be top of mind in the upcoming election after a summer of intense heat waves has left apartment dwellers roasting with no relief and wildfires are sweeping through Ontario and B.C.’s rural communities.
Environics Analytics analysis: Who makes up the wide mosaic of our federal ridings, and how do they vote?
August 27, 2021
Canada’s the second-largest country on the planet when it comes to total area, divided into 338 electoral districts, or ridings. Canadians’ voting patterns can be as diverse and varied as their vast geography. Here, we’ve broken down some key voting segments for you and indicators on some key issues in this election.
Key dates you need to remember for voting in the federal election
August 27, 2021
There are many options for voters to cast their ballots, but each comes with a deadline. Here they are, so you won’t miss the opportunity to get your voice heard.
Elections Canada Encouraging Voters to Register for a Mail-In Ballot
August 27, 2021
The federal election is well underway and voters interested in a mail-in ballot are being encouraged to register. Media Relations with Elections Canada Francoise Enguard says in-person voting will be available for both the advance polls and election day September 20, with all the appropriate safety measures in place.
https://vocm.com/2021/08/27/mail-in-voting/
David Suzuki: Federal election requires serious shift on climate, justice, and health
August 27, 2021
Protecting the air, water, soil, ecosystems and biodiversity that make human life possible shouldn’t be political. It’s become politicized, though.
Indigenous women, gender-diverse people can influence policy with their votes, says group
August 27, 2021
Getting Indigenous women and gender-diverse people out to vote in the upcoming federal election is about both the past and the future, says Lynne Groulx.
Making sense of the conservative sweep in Nova Scotia
August 27, 2021
As people across the country prepare to head to the polls for a federal election in a few weeks, here in the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw Nation called Nova Scotia we are reeling from the results of a provincial election held last week.
https://nsadvocate.org/2021/08/27/making-sense-of-the-conservative-sweep-in-nova-scotia/
Simcoe North candidates address Indigenous issues
August 27, 2021
Ahead of the Sept. 20 federal election, OrilliaMatters contacted the five candidates in Simcoe North, asking each to answer, in 200 words or less, five key questions. In Part 3 of our 5-part series, candidates weigh in on Indigenous issues. Tomorrow, the candidates will be asked about climate change.
Federal election Q&A: Jesse McCormick, Liberal Party
August 26, 2021
KTW presents profiles of those seeking to become Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP in the Sept. 20 federal election.
https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/news/federal-election-q-a-jesse-mccormick-liberal-party-1.24353820
