Pope Francis will visit two Quebec locations over the course of two days during his late July visit, including holding a massive open-air Mass on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City. The visit includes one relatively short meeting with local Indigenous leaders.
Cree Nation Grand Chief Mandy Gull-Masty is part of an Indigenous delegation scheduled to speak with the head of the Catholic Church next week about residential schools and their harrowing legacy.
Posted: Feb 24, 2021 1:58 PM CT | Last Updated: February 24
A troupe of caribou on December 4, 2018, along the Hudson Bay coast, near Whapmagoostui/Kuujjuarapik, Que. The Cree in northern Quebec are concerned over a recent hunt by an Innu hunting party in the far eastern reaches of Cree territory.(Matthew Mukash)
A community caribou hunt organized in northern Quebec by some Innu hunters from Matimekush-Lac John, near Schefferville, Que., has some Chisasibi tallymen and Cree government officials worried.
The hunt happened on lands west of Schefferville and east of Chisasibi, northwest of Brisay, in northern Quebec between the end of January and mid-February. The area is more than 1,800 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 2:30 PM CT | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
Former Cree Grand Chief Ted Moses (left) and Romeo Saganash, lawyer and former NDP MP, pictured in 2000. The two men were very involved in the drafting of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.(Le Presse Canadienne/Jacques Boissinot)
News of the federal government's tabling of a bill which, if passed, would mean the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is being welcomed by one of the architects of the declaration.
Former Cree Nation Grand Chief Ted Moses who, along with a young Romeo Saganash, was a key figure in the drafting of UNDRIP over many years, says he is pleased to see it get another chance of becoming law in Canada.