Indigenous leaders are accusing the premier of Quebec of "belittling" Canada s first Inuk governor general by publicly attacking her French-language skills after the two met on Wednesday.
Large portrait-style posters of members of the local Indigenous community were plastered to Montreal walls Sunday to draw attention to Canada s colonial history and the displacement of Indigenous people.
A memorial service in Montreal s Cabot Square celebrated the life of Elisapee Pootoogook, who was found dead after seeking shelter at a construction site.
MONTREAL A man froze to death overnight on Saturday just steps from the downtown Montreal shelter where he’d been keeping warm. Now that shelter’s staff is speaking out against Quebec’s current regime of public health rules, which had forced them to kick the man out at night even when there were beds available. Montreal authorities say they had been trying to reopen the shelter at night, even if that didn t happen in time. The man was Innu, said the director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, Nakuset. She first said on Twitter on Monday that he was Inuk.