COVID-19 Daily News Digest – September 7, 2020
First Nations and Environmental groups challenge Ontario’s changes to Environmental Assessments
“And by putting it in a big omnibus bill and by not doing the required Environmental Bill of Rights public notice and consultation, they just tried to slip it through and hoped it wouldn’t attract any attention, let alone opposition… They are attracting a lot of opposition,” she says.
“And by putting it in a big omnibus bill and by not doing the required Environmental Bill of Rights public notice and consultation, they just tried to slip it through and hoped it wouldn’t attract any attention, let alone opposition… They are attracting a lot of opposition,” she says.
First Nations communities ‘extremely concerned’ over reopening of schools
Two Indigenous high schools — Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, and Pelican Falls education centre near Sioux Lookout — have delayed their opening for in-class instruction because of a lack of funding.
Fox said the schools could remain closed for longer than that.
“We may decide to just keep it the way it is and stay safe and ensure that that outbreak doesn’t happen,” Fox said. “One of the ways may be to just keep the schools closed.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/indigenous-school-reopening-1.5711064
Nadya Kwandibens merges worlds with a photo mural at Ryerson
Through her company Red Works Photography, Kwandibens creates images that combat colonial representations while evoking the emotional lives of Indigenous people living in cities today. It’s a theme that springs from the artist’s own desires and longing after leaving home in the Animakee Wa Zhing First Nation in northwestern Ontario and moving to cities to to build her career as a photographer.
https://nowtoronto.com/culture/art-and-design/nadya-kwandibens-concrete-indians-ryerson-mural