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Northern Canada

Feds promise $10 million for housing for benighted Cat Lake First Nation

Colin Perkel, THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb 22, 2019

The Canadian government is promising more than $10 million to build new homes, repair others, and put portables in place for a remote Indigenous community in northern Ontario where substandard mould-infested housing has sparked a health…

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Small Ontario town says marketing scheme paid off as more families moved in

Nicole Thompson, THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov 29, 2018

A northern Ontario town of about 1,400 people is crediting an ambitious marketing campaign with drawing two dozen new families to the community.Last year, Smooth Rock Falls, Ont., offered to reimburse 90 per cent of the cost of the land…

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Garneau announces federal investment for northern transportation corridors

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Today, Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, announced the call for proposals for funding to address transportation challenges in transportation corridors in the territorial North.The National Trade Corridors Fund is a core element of…

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Bilateral housing agreement signed for Northwest Territories

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Families, Indigenous communities and vulnerable Canadians in need of an affordable place to call home can count on long-term funding for community housing in the Northwest Territories thanks to an agreement signed today by the federal and…

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Immediate repairs tabled for Manitoba’s Hudson Bay Rail Line

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The Government of Canada has announced a commitment to the restoration of the Hudson Bay Rail Line, a critical piece of transportation infrastructure for nearly 30,000 people from First Nations as well as other communities in northern…

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Only land link to Churchill, Man., may be sold and revived: rail company

Steve Lambert, THE CANADIAN PRESS Jul 10, 2018

The company that owns a broken rail line to Churchill in northern Manitoba says talks to sell the line and restore it are back on.Hudson Bay Railway says negotiations with a consortium of northern communities resumed on Monday — almost…

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‘That can’t come soon enough:’ Churchill hopes propane crisis sparks railway…

Kelly Geraldine Malone, THE CANADIAN PRESS Jul 3, 2018

People in Churchill wrapped up in scarves and mittens as they walked down the streets of the northern Manitoba community over the weekend, but despite the weather many homes maintained the chill inside.Churchill is critically low on…

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Confusion and concern over land-use planning across northern Ontario

Dayna Nadine Scott Mar 12, 2018

Peawanuck is a Cree community in northern Ontario near the shores of Hudson Bay and the home community of the Weenusk First Nation. When I visited in February, caribou hides and animal furs hung in the yards, teepee smokehouses smouldered…

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Feds funding new infrastructure in Yellowknife and Hay River

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Yellowknife and Hay River families will benefit from essential infrastructure upgrades as well as the improvement and construction of safer places for their children and themselves to play, socialize and exercise as a result of $450,000…