Alessia Passafiume is a Staff Reporter with extensive experience covering regional interest and world news, particularly focusing on elections, government, politics, public policy, and environmental issues related to climate change and water management. Her insightful reporting on hydrology and water rights spans across both the United States and Canada. Alessia's work has been featured in numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and Canada's National Observer.
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Alessia's coverage focuses on Indigenous rights, truth and reconciliation, and government policies. She extensively covers announcements from the government related to legal policy regulations impacting Indigenous communities in Canada.
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By: Alessia Passafiume
Both versions of the bill share the goal of ensuring First Nations have reliable access to safe drinking water and wastewater treatment, but the new draft legislation blurs the language in the old bill that affirmed access to clean drinking water as a human right.
By: Alessia Passafiume
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty is expected to table long-awaited legislation to govern clean drinking water in First Nations communities today.
OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty has tabled the Liberal government's long-awaited legislation to govern clean drinking water in First Nations communities.
By: Alessia Passafiume
OTTAWA — The Liberal government's new First Nations water bill will “advance the critical work of addressing long-term drinking water advisories,” Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty said on Tuesday, shortly after the legislation was introduced in the House of Commons.
By: Alessia Passafiume
OTTAWA - A senior federal bureaucrat has been named the interim Commissioner of Indigenous Languages.
By: Alessia Passafiume
OTTAWA - Two lawyers say the blurring of language on the right of First Nations to clean drinking water in a new bill serves as a shield for the federal government as it argues against that right in court.
By: Alessia Passafiume
OTTAWA — A senior federal bureaucrat has been named the interim commissioner of Indigenous languages.
By: Alessia Passafiume
OTTAWA — The chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation is repeating calls for Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize to one of her members for a remark she says was offensive.
By: Alessia Passafiume
OTTAWA — A Grassy Narrows First Nation woman who suffers from mercury poisoning is adamant that Prime Minister Mark Carney must apologize for saying he could “outlast” her during a March protest.
A Grassy Narrows First Nation woman who suffers from mercury poisoning is adamant that Prime Minister Mark Carney must apologize for saying he could "outlast" her during a March protest.
