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About one million square kilometres of Quebec is covered by boreal forest, roughly 70 per cent of the entire province. In the north, where ecosystems are less likely to have been altered by human activity, those forests have been accumulating and sequestering immense quantities of carbon for centuries.

Heather House studies full-time through McGill University’s distance education program, and when she is not immersed in books, she is raising her eight children with her husband in Chisasibi, the northernmost community in Quebec that is accessible by road.

As Freddy Jolly’s pickup truck travels the dusty roads through the spruce forests outside Nemaska, Que., the one radio station fades in and out, and Jolly fills the gaps between country ballads with conversation.

Cree nations in Ontario hope the province will make room for them at the table when developing environmental protections for mining development.

It's no coincidence that a wave of Indigenous women have won leadership roles previously held only by men, say leaders and advocates.

First Nations leaders and Quebec history teachers say the timing is right to reset the way Indigenous history is taught in primary and secondary schools across the province.

As Indigenous-led, anti-pipeline protests have shut down rail service across much of the country, Quebec and Cree leaders announced on Monday, February 17, 2020, the first steps of a wide-ranging 30-year plan to further develop the province's northern territory together.