Indigenous Services Canada – Canada News

Lack of federal funding leaves First Nations with new plants but no access to clean water

March 1, 2021 Canuck broken promises, Canada, Clean drinking water Manitoba, Clean Water Broken Promises, Features, Hollow Water First Nation, Indigenous Services Canada, Investigations, Manitoba First Nations, Minister Marc Miller, Politics, Trudeau Government, Water treament plant

Dozens of households in one Anishinaabe community in Manitoba are still dealing with a lack of access to clean water

Anishnaabe and Dakota chiefs call for inquiry over revelations in Broken Promises investigation

February 28, 2021 Canuck Anishinaabe, broken promises, Clean Water, Dakota, Drinking Water, First Nations, Health, Hector Shorting, Indigenous Services Canada, Investigations, Jerry Daniels, Marc Miller, News, Politics, Southern Chiefs Organization

An advocacy organization representing Anishinaabe and Dakota communities in Manitoba is calling for an inquiry into how the federal government

Lack of funding for piped water on First Nations in Sask. means some on reserves can’t drink from their taps

February 23, 2021 Canuck Boil Water Advisory, broken promises, COVID, COVID-19, Cowessess First Nation, Drinking Water, First Nations water, Indigenous Services Canada, Indigenous Water, Investigations, Marc Miller, Peepeekisis Cree Nation, Saskatchewan First Nations Water Association, Saskatchewan News

The worst thing Perry Mcleod ever pulled out of a cistern was a car battery. “The family didn’t know. They

Trudeau gov. grilled over construction firms hired for First Nations infrastructure projects

February 22, 2021 Canuck Boil Water Advisory, broken promises, Canada, First Nations drinking water, First Nations water advisories, Indigenous Services Canada, Indigenous Water, Marc Miller, Neskantaga First Nation, Politics

The Trudeau government was grilled in the House of Commons on Monday over allegations federal policies are creating hurdles for

Overworked, underpaid: Ottawa’s chronic underfunding leaves Indigenous water operators behind

February 22, 2021 Canuck Atlantic Canada First Nations, Atlantic First Nations Water Authority, broken promises, Clean Water Broken Promises, Clean water on First Nations, Global News at 6 Halifax, Global News at 6 New Brunswick, Indigenous Services Canada, Investigations, Marc Miller, Mi'kmaq Communities, Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia, News, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Tobique First Nation, water and wastewater management

Gregg Brewer doesn’t have the luxury of turning his phone off. His office, an ageing water treatment plant in Tobique

First Nations workers in Saskatchewan sacrifice wages, vacation to run underfunded water systems

February 22, 2021 Canuck Boil Water Advisory, broken promises, Drinking Water, First Nations water, Indigenous Services Canada, Indigenous Water, Investigations, Marc Miller, Moosomin First Nation, Muscowpetung First Nation, Saskatchewan First Nations Water Association

When something goes amiss at the Moosomin First Nation water treatment plant, Nathan Martell is often the man who gets

Indigenous services minister ‘alarmed’ by allegations about construction practices on First Nations

February 20, 2021 Canuck broken promises, Charlie Angus, Chris Moonias, Clean Water, Health, Indigenous Services Canada, Investigations, Jessica Vandenberghe, Kingdom Construction Limited, Marc Miller, Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation, Neskantaga, Politics

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says he was alarmed by revelations of a December investigation into construction practices in on-reserve

How colonial systems have left some First Nations without drinking water

February 18, 2021 Canuck Boil Water Advisory, broken promises, Canada, Chris Moonias, Drinking Water, Glenn Hudson, Health, Indigenous Services Canada, Investigations, KCL, Marc Miller, Neskantaga First Nation, News, Politics, UNDRIP

When Ed Morrison needs government approval for a project in Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, he has a strategy he can use

Saskatchewan First Nations install cold-chain equipment for COVID-19 vaccine storage

January 29, 2021 Canuck Canada, Coronavirus, COVID-19 rollout, COVID-19 Vaccine, covid-19 vaccine rollout, Health, Indigenous Services Canada, ISC, News, NITHA, Northern-Inter-Tribal Health Authority, Saskatchewan Coronavirus, Saskatchewan First Nations, Saskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatchewan News, Saskatchewan Vaccine Rollout, SHA

First Nations communities in northern Saskatchewan are working with the federal government to receive and install deep freezers, fridges and

‘Grim’ COVID-19 data highlights inequities on Saskatchewan reserves

January 19, 2021 Canuck Coronavirus, COVID-19, Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, First Nations, Health, Indigenous Services Canada, Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, Reserves, Saskatchewan Coronavirus

Community leaders have been saying it from the start: the COVID-19 pandemic will disproportionately harm First Nations people. New data

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