Susan Bell

A $57 million project will see the construction of close to 50 new cellular towers in the James Bay region and Eeyou Istchee, the traditional name for the Cree territory in Quebec.

A new program called the Cree Language Mentorship Initiative has brought 20 retired language experts back to work to mentor current Cree language teachers in northern Quebec.

Close to 4 million hectares of forest burned this summer in the northern region of Quebec, much of it in Cree territory. Cree leaders have begun a process to quantify the losses.

The centre, which is named Ispeyimuunikamikw — the Hope Centre, will offer training and patient support in two home dialysis techniques. It will be part of the Home Dialysis Training Centre and Respiratory Clinic in Waskaganish, Que., located in the old police station.

On Jan. 10, a group of 9- to 12-year-old students from Vatican II yelled racial stereotypes, insults and threats at Paula Menarick, a Cree woman. She posted about what happened on social media.

Indigenous people involved with the justice system in the Montreal area — whether they spend time in jail or not — may increasingly be able to carry out court-ordered community hours doing cultural and healing activities instead of labour.

A Cree woman from northern Quebec had a little bit of light added to a deeply challenging time this week, thanks to a 10-minute video chat with Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price.

Paula Menarik says she was called a pig, asked if she was an alcoholic, threatened with being shot and sworn at for more than five minutes on Tuesday afternoon outside an elementary school near her home in Chibougamau, Que.

The Mohawk-Cree Teepee project will allow Indigenous patients, students and detainees a more culturally safe place to gather, cook traditional food and do traditional activities near Montreal.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, announced $800 million in funding over seven years for large Indigenous-led conservation projects covering almost a million square kilometres of land.

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in weed killers like Roundup. ‘In many areas, we cannot trust that the medicines and foods are not contaminated because of glyphosate,’ says Dr. Susan Bell Chiblow

The community of Waswanipi has become the latest Quebec Cree community to elect women to the office of both chief and deputy chief. Elections were held on Aug. 31.

Bill 96 passed last month and will impose language restrictions on municipalities and small businesses and most public services in Quebec. It will also put in place a cap on access to English-language CEGEPs and increase French language requirements needed to graduate.

Cree health board’s Talent Development Program has so far seen a majority of its graduates move up in the organization. It is part of the Cree Succession Leadership Framework, a unique program to help Cree employees move to management.

A long-standing dream of keeping Cree elders close to family took another step forward Monday with a blessing and ground-breaking in Chisasibi at the site of a new elders’ home. The building is the first of three 32-bed homes for elders and adults with special needs to be built in Chisasibi, Waskaga…

If Maïtée Labrecque-Saganash wins a seat in the provincial election on Oct.3, she will be the first Indigenous woman to sit in the National Assembly, say Québec Solidaire officials.

With attendance down and students managing the challenges of a third academic year disrupted by the global pandemic, stakeholders from across the Cree education system gathered this week to move forward with a recovery plan. 

Bill 96 will put a cap on the number of students who can attend English-language CEGEPS, as public colleges are called in Quebec, and put in place French-language requirements needed to graduate, among other measures.

On Monday, the Cree Nation Bears BB team played and won its first game at the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament being held until May 15 in Quebec City.

Quebec’s transport minister, François Bonnardel, announced the Quebec Regional Air Transport Plan last month, promising to cap a return airline ticket within the province at $500, but the plan leaves out many routes in northern Cree and Inuit communities.