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OTTAWA - Applications opened Thursday for a $1-billion federal program to help municipalities and Indigenous communities build critical infrastructure.

OTTAWA — Applications opened Thursday for a $1-billion federal program to help municipalities and Indigenous communities build critical infrastructure.

In opening remarks at the Inuit-Crown partnership committee meeting in Ottawa on Friday, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree said the government is preparing to deliver an apology in Nunavik — the Inuit region of northern Quebec.

The government set aside $1 billion through the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund in direct funding to communities to build or improve infrastructure to support drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and solid waste.

A government-funded report says Black executives within the public service are subject to harassment and intimidation, career stagnation, unjust workloads and, as one executive wrote, a "cesspool of racism." The Confederation Building reflects off the windows of a building in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday, April 7, 2020.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

OTTAWA — The chair of the Liberal party’s Indigenous caucus says Indigenous identity is “complicated” after questions have been raised about the claims of two Liberal MPs who currently sit with the group and one cabinet minister who is no longer a member.

Share via Text Message Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Minister Randy Boissonnault speaks at a press conference in Ottawa on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. The chair of the Liberal party's Indigenous caucus says Indigenous identity is "complicated" after a former member and current minister is being questioned over his claims to Indigenous identity, along with two current members. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

OTTAWA - The chair of the Liberal party's Indigenous caucus says Indigenous identity is "complicated" after questions have been raised about the claims of two Liberal MPs who currently sit with the group and one cabinet minister who is no longer a member.

OTTAWA – A new $375-million conservation fund being created in the Northwest Territories is the largest single investment in Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship in the territory.

OTTAWA — K’ahsho Got’ine guardians Twyla Edgi-Masuzumi, John Tobac and Buddy Gully pulled more than 300 fish out of the waters last week, distributing them to community members in the Northwest Territories who often struggle with the high cost of food.