Winnipeg, MB – The Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF) is pleased to announce the launch of a toll-free Mental Health Wellness Support Line, commencing today, December 16, 2020, that will operate from 7 am to 11 pm daily, with plans of eventually extending the Support Line to 24 hours a day. The service can...
Madisyn Whajne. Photo by Jen Squires. Toronto, ON—Madisyn Whajne’s extraordinary debut album Save Our Hearts is out now. Listen to the album in full here. Save Our Hearts has already garnered support from Exclaim!, The Big Takeover, Amplify Music, CBC q, CBC The Strombo Show, Here & Now and Fresh...
Collective Days of prayer organized until the pandemic ends Midewikweg Nimikaagewag which means ‘Medicine Women dancing for the people’ is a group of organizers responding to an Elder from Wasauksing First Nation’s call for Jingle dress dancers to lead the world in a unifying prayer. Jenny Blackbird, R...
Toronto, ON – Juno Award-Winner G.R. Gritt releases their first single, “Quiet Years” off of their forthcoming debut full-length studio album, Ancestors, with a live online performance to celebrate. “Quiet Years” is available now on all music services via Coax Records. “The title ‘Quiet Yea...
British Columbia. – On this week dedicated to national conversations on substance use – National Addictions Awareness Week – the B.C. Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres (BCAAFC) released the Urban Indigenous Wellness Report: A BC Friendship Centre Perspective. The report is informed by the co...
The first and only organization in Alberta for film + tv, media & arts professionals who are Black, Indigenous & People of Colour Free Membership for IBPOC Individuals! Alberta – CREATIVES EMPOWERED makes its inaugural public launch today. Creatives Empowered is a collective of artists + c...
Halifax, NS – The Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), is proud to prepare for the first virtual Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week (AAAW). Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week occurs each year from December 1 to December 7, beginning on World AIDS Day on December 1. AAAW increases awareness and knowledge abo...
The third episode of Honour Song will take us across Inuit Nunangat (Inuit land) from Salluit, nestled in the northernmost part of Quebec, to Aklavik in the Northwest Territories (Google Maps can’t even calculate the distance between these two communities). Elisapie will lead the conversation. She...
SASKATOON, SK — The World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Viral Hepatitis organizing committee is hosting a virtual conference on global Indigenous responses to COVID-19 in the context of viral hepatitis. The committee had planned on holding its third global congress in Saskatoon in September 2020. Th...
TD Bank and Canada’s Music Incubator collaborate to produce and stream 20 performances over five weeks Toronto, ON – The Connected Music Series will showcase Black, Indigenous and South Asian music performers and content creators at culturally significant spaces across Canada. The new series, pre...
