The Chiefs of Ontario are calling on the federal and provincial governments to immediately provide coordinated emergency support as escalating wildfires threaten First Nations across northern Ontario.

By Alessia Passafiume First Nations chiefs say they’ll oppose any actions by federal and provincial governments to expedite major projects that would undermine their rights and environmental ...

A  haze caused by smoke from northern fires  fill the skies over the Grand River at Ohsweken Wednesday, July 15, 2026  (Photo ...

By Kathryn Mannie Smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario is drifting south and choking the skies over Toronto and other regions. Environment Canada’s air quality warnings are active from Thunder ...

Forest fires in northwestern Ontario have devastated several communities, forcing widespread evacuations and destroying homes and buildings in one First Nation. The fires have prompted evacuation ...

By Alessia Passafiume First Nations chiefs say the federal government is enabling residential school denialism by failing to make it a crime. The chiefs passed an emergency resolution at the Assembly ...

Smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario drifted south and choked the skies over Toronto and other regions on Wednesday. Environment Canada’s air quality warnings are active from Thunder Bay to ...

The impending closure of the insolvent Ekati diamond mine is a “deeply disappointing outcome” for workers, shareholders and communities in the Northwest Territories, said the chief executive of ...

By Lynda Powless Editor Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) held a closed-door meeting with the Ministry of Finance (MOF )just two weeks before the community’s largest tobacco company executives were ...

Six Nations approved moving forward with a new consolidated funding agreement with Ontario’s Ministry of Health that ...

Six Nations approved $75,000 for the Six Nations Farmers Association’s 2026 White Corn Project following an emotional debate over new funding policies, accountability measures and the future of one of ...

There’s nothing complicated about what Ontario’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) does. For First Nations communities it’s clear. It enforces the Tobacco Tax Act. It sends the Ontario Provincial Police to ...