Alvin Fiddler

First Nations chiefs and delegates will gather virtually this week to discuss their communities’ priorities and plans for moving forward — even as they also reflect on a past brought into harsher light with the recent discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential schools.

Evacuees from Pikangikum First Nation will be taken to host cities in two provinces on Sunday, June 2, 2019, while a wildfire continues to grow near the northwestern Ontario community.

The Canadian government is promising more than $10 million to build new homes, repair others, and put portables in place for a remote Indigenous community in northern Ontario where substandard mould-infested housing has sparked a health crisis, according to a framework agreement signed on Thursday, February 21, 2019.