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Tom Longboat Day to be marked June 4 across province of Ontario

“This legendary Canadian has been ignored for too long,” Eglinton-Lawrence M.P.P. Mike Colle said after Ontario members of...

Sharing John Paishk’s drum with the world

Four years after witnessing the drumming and dancing at Sandy Lake, I photographed John Paishk of Red Lake, Ont., with his...

Beaver animal of choice in Mattagami

It was a beautiful day to visit Mattagami First Nation April 24 to check out the annual Beaverfest celebration in the...

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Bead-In organizer Leanna Marshall, centre, and a group of participants bead their fabric hearts during Confederation College’s Bead-In in Honour of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, held during Aboriginal Awareness Week 2015. Photo by Rick Garrick
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Bead-in honours missing and murder women

The granddaughter of a missing and murdered Indigenous woman participated in Confederation College’s Bead-In in honour of missing and murdered Aboriginal Women during Aboriginal Awareness Week...

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Driving on northern roads in bad winter weather Is deadly

It is that season again and we have to deal with snow, icy roads, freezing rain and sometimes blizzards. I love the north and I enjoy all that winter offers, no matter what the weather might be....

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Mushkegowuk and Ontario renew Treaty relations

The Mushkegowuk Council and the Government of Ontario formalized a renewed Treaty relationship by signing a Treaty Relationship Roundtable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Toronto.

In...

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Arts & Entertainment
Gull Bay artist Kevin Belmore with his animal protest painting that features a group of animals leaving in a canoe over man’s destruction of the environment. Photo by Rick Garrick
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Gull Bay artist featured at country market

Gull Bay’s Kevin Belmore has created a protest painting featuring animals leaving in a canoe over man’s destruction of the environment.

“It’s called Animal Protest — they are protesting...

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Sports
The Geyshick brothers, Henry and Brandon, helped their Fort Frances High School senior boys volleyball team to an 8-0 record and a NorWOSSA championship this year. Submitted photo
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Lac La Croix players help lead championship team

Lac La Croix brothers Henry and Brandon Geyshick helped lead the Fort Frances High School senior boys volleyball team to an 8-0 season record and the NorWOSSA championship.

“It was pretty...

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