First Peoples Radio is a not-for-profit broadcast company operating 95.7 ELMNT FM in Ottawa and 106.5 ELMNT FM in Toronto. It is dedicated to promoting Indigenous artists, with 30 percent of the music aired on the station each day coming from First Nations, Inuit and Metis artists. FPR also airs Indigenous language content, news, and […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Canada will commemorate the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19th with a national day of mourning, which will be considered a federal statutory holiday. While there is no confirmation as to whether or not this holiday will be recognized at the provincial level. Trudeau has confirmed […]
Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, has died. She was 96. Elizabeth spent more than seven decades on the throne as the U.K. Governor General Mary Simon offered her “deepest condolences” to the Royal Family in a statement on Twitter following the Queen’s death.
Following Pope Francis’ apology last April for the “deplorable conduct” of members of the Catholic Church at residential schools, the Pope will be in Quebec from July 27-29 to advance action toward reconciliation with Indigenous People. Cree Grand Chief Mandy Gull-Masty expressed that while apologies from Pope Francis, especially on Canada’s colonized land is monumental […]
Truckers taking part in the “Freedom Rally” are beginning to arrive in the Greater Toronto Area as of Thursday morning. This rally is intended to be a means of protesting vaccine mandates that would require members of all federally regulated industries to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Ontario Provincial Police are reminding people that this rally […]
The Ontario government is offering free rapid COVID-19 tests at LCBO locations across the province. The tests were accessible as of Friday, December 17th. They are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The following locations in the city were stocked with tests: Danforth & Broadview Eglinton & Laird Queen & Lansdowne Queens Quay & Yonge […]
After more than 18 months, fully vaccinated Canadians will soon be able to more easily visit our neighbours to the south once again. While details are still being worked out, Senior U.S. officials have confirmed that they will be opening land and ferry border crossings with Canada and Mexico sometime in early November. Land and […]
Robert Sylvester Kelly, better known by the stage name R. Kelly, has been found guilty of racketeering in a New York City sex trafficking trial. Kelly was on trial due to allegations that he had been luring young women and preying on them since the early days of his career in the mid-1990s. Kelly had […]
This afternoon, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, accompanied by Health Minister Christine Elliott and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore, announced the rollout of an “enhanced vaccine certificate”, which will allow certain establishments to only permit fully vaccinated attendees. According to Ford, the certificate program will be rolled out in two phases. Starting on September 22nd, […]
Three First Nations from British Columbia are launching an initiative to investigate St. Paul’s Indian Residential School in North Vancouver. The purpose of the investigation is to find answers about the children that once attended the school. This comes after more than 5000 bodies have been discovered in unmarked graves at the sites of former […]