Exploring Theme: "Individual Business Issues"

APTN News: What would be a normal stop to pick up an online order at a Home Deport in Winnipeg has turned into an incident involving a security guard and an investigation. On Oct. 1, Calvin Nepinak and Jennifer Chartrand went to the store in the city’s north end to pick up a door they had ordered....

Complaint and request for additional disclosure seek systemic change at the company, which recently boasted about its Newsweek ranking as “the most trustworthy Canadian retailer.” NationTalk: COQUITLAM, BC – Richard and Dawn Wilson, father and daughter, are going public today with a BC Human Rights Commission complaint they have filed against Canadian Tire Corporation and...

APTN News: A public interest group is calling on Bell Media to release financial information regarding its intent to sell telecommunications provider Northwestel to Sixty North Unity (SNU), a consortium of Indigenous businesses. In July, the Public Interest Advocacy Center (PIAC), a non-profit organization that advocates for consumers in regulated industries, submitted a request to...

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai says Bell should be embarrassed by the terrible cellphone service the territory has been getting over the last several months. APTN News; The Canadian Press – In a letter to Bell Canada CEO Mirko Bibic, Pillai says Yukoners have experienced frequent dropped calls and poor coverage even while downtown in the...

Some First Nations still opposed to development as need for critical minerals grows CBC Indigenous: As the demand for critical minerals grows, the CEO of the main company involved in northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire says it’s developing a nickel deposit that could be producing minerals for two decades.  Wyloo Metals CEO Kristan Straub gave the update Tuesday...

“They continue to enjoy…the use of land and so on, just as our people continue to experience the impact of the loss.” — Roberta Jamieson, former co-chair of CN Rail’s Indigenous advisory council Murray Sinclair and Roberta Jamieson, former co-chairs of CN Rail’s Indigenous advisory council Windspeaker.com: It took the resignation of its entire Indigenous...

Murray Sinclair says the unanimous resignation was due to ‘disagreements.’  Photo: Danielle Paradis/APTN  APTN News: Twelve members of the Indigenous advisory council for CN Rail have unanimously resigned citing disagreements between the group and Canadian Rail. “As we step back from CN, we are earnest in our belief that CN has missed the mark on...