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October 15, 2024
Federal government invests $13M for Driftpile Cree Nation health and wellness facility
NationTalk: DCN-JOC News Services – DRIFTPILE CREE NATION, ALTA. – The Government of Canada is investing $13 million via Indigenous Services Canada toward construction of the Mihtatikaw Sipiy Health and Wellness Facility in Driftpile Cree Nation in Treaty 8 Territory, Alta. The health centre will blend modern architecture, Indigenous cultural values and Cree symbolism, reflecting...
July 10, 2024
Montreal Lake Cree Nation Celebrates Health Facility Opening
NationTalk: Indigenous Services Canada – Today, Chief Joyce Naytowhow McLeod of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation, along with Council, Elders, community members, and representatives from Indigenous Services Canada, celebrated the grand opening of the community’s new healthcare facility in northern Saskatchewan. The new facility includes 1,339m2 of space for primary care (nursing), communicable disease control, homecare,...
May 7, 2024
New community building for Edmonton with federal investment of $21M
NationTalk: ReNew Canada – The downtown core in Edmonton will have an improved facility for an essential range of programs and services after a combined investment of more than $45 million from the federal government and the Boyle Street Community Services. Announced by Minister Randy Boissonnault and Jordan Reiniger, executive director, Boyle Street Community Services, this new building space will...
March 12, 2024
Ottawa invests $13M in Indigenous health centre set for east Hamilton
Health services within the new Biindigen Well-Being Centre will have ‘profound impact,’ says DAHC board chair CBC Indigenous: Federal funding announcements aren’t always as emotional as the one Monday morning in Hamilton’s east end. People teared up, hugged and expressed their appreciation for one another’s work on a long-term Indigenous health and housing project. “To see a...
August 14, 2023
Tundra Turning Celebrates Historic $83.7M Investment to Build Aqqusariaq (formerly the Nunavut Recovery Centre) in Iqaluit
NationTalk: Iqaluit, Nunavut – Colonial trauma is deep-rooted and complex, affecting many generations. By bringing treatment closer to home with a centre that is founded on Inuit traditions and practices, healing can begin amongst community, families, friends and loved ones. Today, Vice President of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI), Paul Irngaut, Minister of Indigenous Services Patty...
June 19, 2023
New lodge in Gagetown to offer land-based healing for Indigenous women
Wabanaki Resilency Lodge expected to open by August, will have 10 beds CBC News: A new lodge “for Indigenous women, by Indigenous women,” plans to offer traditional, land-based healing in Gagetown, around 60 kilometres southeast of Fredericton. Lynne Groulx, executive director of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, the group behind the lodge, said the concept was developed...
March 23, 2023
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc to receive $12.5M in funding for new healing centre
Architect already chosen to consult with community and lead design, nation says WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation will receive $12.5 million in federal funding toward the construction of a new healing centre for the community, nearly two years after suspected grave sites were discovered at a former residential...
February 15, 2023
Nunavut Recovery Centre expected to be completed 2025
Nunavut News: The Nunavut Recovery Centre, to be built in Iqaluit is expected to be completed in two years, by Jan. 2025, and expects to have occupancy by the following spring, according to Nunavut’s department of health. The federal government announced funding for the Nunavut Recovery Centre in August 2021, with construction expected to start...
February 15, 2023
Canada invests in a new men’s shelter and wellness centre in Pond Inlet
NationTalk: Hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut — Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, and David Stockley, Chief Administrative Officer, Hamlet of Pond Inlet, announced more than $2 million in federal funding towards a new men’s shelter and a wellness centre for the community. These facilities will be housed in two existing...
December 13, 2022
Canada and the Witset First Nation partner to launch the Witset Youth Healing Lodge Project
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: Today, Chief Barry Nikal from the Witset First Nation and the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown−Indigenous Relations, announced the launch of the Witset Youth Healing Lodge Project. The Government of Canada will provide $3,826,659 through the Cultural Spaces in Indigenous Communities Program (CSICP) towards this project. The Witset...
November 28, 2022
Trudeau commits $62.5M to Indigenous safety, healing projects in James Smith Cree Nation
Global News: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will invest over $20 million toward Indigenous-led community safety projects in First Nations across the country, while promising continued work toward making Indigenous policing an essential service in Canada. The money is part of $62.5 million in federal funding Trudeau announced Monday while visiting James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan,...