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Posted: Feb 05, 2021 5:00 PM ET | Last Updated: February 5 The Algonquins of Ontario are planning to build a suburb called Tewin on a large swath of land that currently sits outside Ottawa's urban border. They say they're a legitimate voice for the Algonquin people, despite criticisms from Quebec chiefs.(Jean Delisle/CBC) The Algonquins of Ontario (AOO) say a plan to create an environmentally friendly suburb in south Ottawa will give their people a chance to be part of the city's society and economy — and is indeed, despite what critics have said, a step toward reconciliation. Last week...

Canada pulls documentary from Sundance 2021 over director’s claims to indigenous roots Filmmaker apologizes for claiming family came from the Quebec Algonquin community. (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute) An image from director Michelle Latimer's documentary "Inconvenient Indian," which was selected for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Documentary competition — but was pulled by the National Film Board of Canada after questions about Latimer's claim to indigenous roots. | Updated: Dec. 24, 2020, 4:19 a.m. The National Film Board of Canada has pulled a documentary ...

George Pimentel/Getty Images The National Film Board of Canada has pulled Michelle Latimer's film from all festivals after its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Michelle Latimer's documentary Inconvenient Indian has been withdrawn from the Sundance Film Festival after the Canadian director came under scrutiny for claiming Indigenous family roots in a Quebec Algonquin community while promoting her film ahead of its Toronto Film Festival world premiere last summer. "After engaging with the Indigenous participants who appear onscreen, the NFB’s Indigenous advisory group, and indust...

George Pimentel/Getty Images "I now realize that I made a mistake in naming Kitigan Zibi as my family’s community," says Michelle Latimer, whose documentary 'Inconvenient Indian' is headed to Sundance after bowing in Toronto. Top Canadian film director Michelle Latimer has apologized after coming under scrutiny for claiming Indigenous family roots in a Quebec Algonquin community when promoting her documentary Inconvenient Indian ahead of its recent world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The feature, an adaptation of Thomas King's book Inconvenient Indian, in which the American-born ...