On Oct. 24, British Columbia will elect 87 members of the legislative assembly (MLAs). This comes after current Premier John Horgan called a snap election, leaving many to make quick decisions as to whether or not they would run.
IndigiNews reviewed all of the candidates running and determined that there are 10 candidates who publicly identify as Indigenous participating in this provincial election.
Here’s what we know about them.
When a neighbour killed our dog, my partner was just steps behind her. He heard our dog, whose name was Maybe, barking and then a gunshot. He rounded the corner to find our neighbour walking out from the bush, a rifle at his side. My partner asked our neighbour if he had seen Maybe, and our neighbour calmly stated that he had just watched her run toward our house. We spent the next two weeks searching our small community of Savary Island in deep snow.
Nearly half the money that’s funded the Saskatchewan Party’s election machine during its time in power over the last thirteen years has come through big money corporate donations.
According to a new analysis of Elections Saskatchewan data by PressProgress, over the last 13 years, a staggering 46% of the Sask Party’s total contributions have been corporate donations.
Today across the country, people awoke to reeling images of violence and racism carried out against Mi’kmaq fishers. Many people are asking key questions such as why the RCMP has not pro-actively intervened and defended Mi’kmaq leadership and fishers, what are the economic realities of the fisheries in Mi’kma’ki, and what conservation considerations are at play.
There are a lot of moving parts to the conflict that is ongoing in St Mary’s Bay, Nova Scotia: It is a highly-charged situation, borne out of generations of colonialism, decades of government mishandling and neglect, and months of growing racially-motivated tensions.
In its September throne speech, the federal government signalled its intention to fund the development of new nuclear reactors (SMRs) as part of its climate action plan.
Today, the government made its first SMR funding announcement: $20 million from ISED's Strategic Innovation Fund for the company Terrestrial Energy to develop its prototype SMR in Ontario.
Anyone interested in evidence-based policy is wondering: Why are they doing this? There is no evidence that nuclear power will achieve carbon reduction targets, while there is considerable research indicating the contrary.
Canada’s healthcare system receives a lot of praise. However, dental care in Canada more closely resembles a private United States-style healthcare system than one worthy of applause.
Many Canadians rely on work related insurance to access dental care, leaving those without to pay the high fees out-of-pocket. This results in dental care being provided based on one’s ability to pay rather than the need for care, which has many consequences. Those who are unable to afford care do not get what they need.
BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson has accepted the resignation of a BC Liberal candidate after several BC Liberal candidates broke rank and publicly condemned their colleague’s socially conservative views on social media.
Wilkinson said Throness “resigned voluntarily” on Thursday following comments the BC Liberal candidate for Chilliwack-Kent made at an all-candidates meeting the night before comparing contraception to “old eugenics” programs.
As Canada grapples with the economic and social instability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government is attempting to address the country’s staggering lack of affordable housing. But if a recent controversy in Toronto tells us anything, it’s that wealthy homeowners are going to push back.
At the end of September, the Trudeau government announced $1 billion in federal dollars over the next six months for municipalities across the country to develop various forms of affordable housing units, primarily through the leasing and acquisition of properties in decline, such as buildings designated for demolition or old hotels no longer in service.
After nearly two decades of closing the Skeena watershed sockeye food fishery or limiting the catch, the Wet’suwet’en First Nation is finally seeing promising returns.
“Almost everybody that wanted sockeye this year got some at least,” Walter Joseph, fisheries manager with the Office of the Wet’suwet’en, said in an interview. “I wouldn’t say it met people’s needs, but we did distribute more fish than we have in many years.”
Eight days after United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the vacant seat of the Supreme Court of the United States.