Tag Archives: COVID 19

Health

Jagmeet Singh requests emergency debate on Ottawa trucker protest

By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, is calling for an emergency debate on how to handle the truckers convoy occupying the nation’s capital.

“We really need to take it seriously,” Singh said in a press conference Monday morning. “They’re terrorizing and intimidating citizens and people, instead of what a regular protest does: focus on the government and government decisions.”

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Indigenous Nations, Spirituality

Indigenous delegation will be meeting the Pope in March

By Jeremy Appel,  Alberta Native News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

(ANNews) – An Indigenous delegation will travel to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis in late-March, after the initial meeting scheduled for December 2021 was postponed due to Omicron concerns. 

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Forests

Mosaic Forestry Management’s presentation encourages many questions from Cortes Islanders

CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Mosaic Forest Management provided a Cortes Island Activity Update Zoom meeting on January 27, 2022 about their proposed forestry activities in the next 3 years, starting this fall. Over forty participants relayed questions to the six Mosaic presenters, via the “chat” function of the online meeting platform. The entire presentation and question period lasted one hour and forty-five minutes.

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Indigenous Nations, Justice

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation criticizes Alberta government’s approach to border blockade

By Jacob Cardinal, Alberta Native News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

(ANNews) – On February 2, the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief and Council released a statement regarding the current U.S-Canadian border blockade in Coutts, Alberta.

“Over the past several days we have watched in dismay as the border blockade at Coutts, Alberta is allowed to continue without intervention from authorities,” said the statement. “The Critical Infrastructure Defense Act (CIDA), which was passed in 2020, was created in response to Indigenous railway blockades protesting pipeline developments on Indigenous territories.”

“This law was used to end Indigenous blockades — so the question that must be asked is why the blockade at Coutts is allowed to continue?”

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Health

Freedom Convoy shunned by South Asian truck drivers

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By Fabian Dawson, New Canadian Media, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The conspicuous absence of South Asian truck drivers in the so-called Freedom Convoy that is protesting border vaccine mandates in Ottawa, is reflective of the community’s willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19, say industry experts.

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