APTN News Brief / March 22, 2021 / A northern Manitoba First Nation is still very much in the thick of the pandemic. Nunavut's chief public health officer says their current vaccination campaign won't be enough to achieve herd immunity. Why Sipekne'katik First Nation hopes it can better protect its lobster fishery by sitting with the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations instead of Fisheries and Oceans. The Tahltan central government says it will take action to force a gold and copper mining company out of their territory. 

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