Employees with the Cree School Board will strike April 14 and their counterparts in Nunavik will walk off the job for one day on April 28.

In 2019, the Cree Nation Government asked Montreal for the hood to be repatriated because of its cultural significance.

The first person in Eeyou Istchee to test positive for COVID-19 is now recovering in a residence in their home community of Nemaska, a community of 850 about three hours drive north of Chibougamau in northern Quebec.

The Chibougamau resident in their 50s recently returned from travelling, according to the regional health authorities, and has been in isolation at home with minor symptoms.

The Quebec government announced last week $10.8 million for the construction of the new school.

For Louisa Snowboy, giving birth in Chisasibi meant being back in her own bed, with her healthy newborn and her older children, just four hours after giving birth rather than having to stay for several weeks in a town almost 1,000 kilometres from home.

The Cree Nation Youth Council teamed up with the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay for this year's winter gathering.