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Publication Date: April 8, 2026 - 16:34
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Advocates urge stable, long-term funding to ensure safety for Indigenous women
April 8, 2026
Advocates are calling for long-term, stable federal funding to safeguard Indigenous women and girls, warning the federal government's major projects push could place them at higher risk. Hilda Anderson-Pyrz, president of the National Family and Survivors Circle, says groups like hers still don't know if they'll receive continued funding from Ottawa, which undermines their ability address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
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May 4, 2026 - 06:52 | Alessia Passafiume | The Globe and Mail
“If Canada wants to agree that we can have some level of higher tariff on them while they open up their markets to us on things like dairy,” United States trade representative Jamieson Greer told a CBC reporter a few months ago, “then that’s a helpful conversation.”
Key points
America’s unstable economy makes their hand in CUSMA negotiations weaker than it appears
Canada should stop treating access to the American market as worth any concession
Canadian negotiators should be prepared to walk away rather than accept a future of economic subordination to the US
Helpful to whom?...
May 4, 2026 - 06:30 | Peter Jones | Walrus
Corb Lund is almost royalty in Alberta. He’s a country music star who comes from a family with four generations of ranching in the province. And he’s stepping into the political spotlight.
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Alberta country music singer Cord Lund is at the helm of a petition to challenge coal mining in the Crowsnest Pass area
Grassy Mountain coal mine project was once cancelled due to environmental impact concerns
Mining company Northback is revisiting the project with a revised proposal
This winter, Lund filed a Citizen Initiative Petition with Elections Alberta that, with enough...
May 4, 2026 - 06:29 | Christina Frangou | Walrus
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