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QUÉBEC CITY, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Québec Premier François Legault, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and Minister Responsible for the Côte-Nord Region, Jonatan Julien, the Minister Responsible for Indigenous Affairs, Ian Lafrenière, the Chief of the Innu Community of Uashat mak Mani-utenam, Mike Mckenzie, the Chief of the Innu Essipit Band Council, Martin Dufour, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hydro-Québec, Sophie Brochu and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Boralex Inc., Patrick Decostre, are pleased to announce a historic partnership that will enable the large-scale Apuiat wind farm project to become a reality.
Matthias Brenzinger In My Own WordsDemand Equity
Why My Grandmother and I Are Working to Save the Language of South Africa s First People
The N/uu language is South Africa s oldest language which is in critical danger of extinction.
Why Global Citizens Should Care
N/uu is South Africa’s oldest language and part of the heritage of the country’s Indigenous San people whose history and culture is also critically endangered. The preservation and protection of vulnerable Indigenous cultures and livelihoods is an important and cross-cutting element of the UN’s Global Goals, which work to achieve equality for all, across everything from education access to financial inclusion. Join the movement for global equality by taking action here.
Kenora, ON, Canada / 89.5 The Lake
Feb 2, 2021 6:14 AM
Ontario’s Minister of Northern Development and Indigenous Affairs says the government has been working closely with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 in First Nation communities.
It was a quiet first wave for northern communities but numbers are now steadily increasing.
Greg Rickford is reacting to a report of nine new cases in five communities over the past couple of days.
“The second wave and the severity that it had on the province has told us that indigenous communities are not immune despite their outstanding efforts, right down to the community level,” Rickford says.
The story of a man written brilliantly by a woman 01 February 2021 - 10:35 By Kate Sidley
Published in the Sunday Times (31/01/2021)
The History of Man
In her prize-winning debut novel
The Theory of Flight, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu surprised and delighted readers and critics with her ingenious excavation of the post-colonial moment in an unnamed Zimbabwe-esque Southern African country. In
The History of Man, her second novel, she turns her attention back in time to the colonial era, in the same country. While quite different in tone, more linear and less obviously touched by folklore and magic, it shares its predecessor s intriguingly slippery relationship with history, and its author s skilful execution.
Province investing in northern broadband
January 27, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The provincial government is investing $10.9 million to bring broadband internet to several towns and First Nations communities across northern Ontario. This also includes $1 million investment for First Nation communities in the Rainy River District.
The funding was announced in a release issued on Jan.20. It said that improved internet access will help bridge the digital divide in Ontario and create more economic opportunity for residents and businesses in the north.
The investment is part of Up to Speed: Ontario’s Broadband and Cellular Action Plan and will bring faster internet to more than 7,000 households and businesses across the North.