Exploring Theme: "Indigenous-led Initiatives"

NationTalk: NNL Digital News Update – THUNDER BAY – In a landmark announcement, Ontario Premier Doug Ford endorsed the First Nations Data Table (FNDT) initiated by the Chiefs of Ontario (COO). The FNDT brings together First Nations Leadership and Ontario government officials to address First Nations data sovereignty. It will be a forum for mutual learning...

Five-bed facility will realize community’s longtime ‘dream’ of ‘culturally relevant’ palliative care. By J.P. AntonacciLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter NationTalk: The Hamilton Spectator – Canada’s most populous First Nation plans to build the country’s first Indigenous-led community hospice. On Wednesday, Six Nations of the Grand River unveiled its vision for a five-bed hospice to provide end-of-life care...

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL: It was unusually hot for a late-September day in Ontario, so searing that even the rez dogs were lying down, immobile. But the children didn’t care about the heat on Tuesday. They ran around chasing each other in front of those gathered outside the new blue building in town,...