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Just before the weekend, the government put the House of Commons on notice that it planned to introduce a new bill, titled “An Act respecting Indigenous languages,” for MPs to debate.
Indigenous reporter Wawmeesh Hamilton reflects on a dig beneath Vancouver City Council's decision to cut it's Innovation Fund in half, and how precarious reconciliation funding can be in the hands of newly elected decision-makers.
The Metis Settlement General Council has signed the Framework Agreement for Advancing Reconciliation with the federal government.
The Unist’ot’en camp blockade is still in place after being ordered to remove a barricade that is preventing the Coastal GasLink company from accessing land for its future pipeline. Another clan of the Wet’suwe’ten Nation in British Columbia has come to the aid of the Uni
In a new agreement between the BC government and First Nations, seventeen open-pen fish farms in BC's Broughton Archipelago will be phased out by 2023. The transition will begin in 2019.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett has rejected another extension for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) inquiry.
In 2017, Senator Murray Sinclair was appointed by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission to look into the ability of the police board, who are the civilians appointed to oversee the local force, to address issues raised by Indigenous leaders.
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde is being questioned about his role in cautioning people about the dangers of the Indigenous rights framework. First Nation organizations, including the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs and the Alberta Assembly of Treaty
The federal government is working to address border-crossing concerns issues between the U.S. and Canada for First Nations people.
The federal government is working to address border-crossing concerns issues between the U.S. and Canada for First Nations people.
Two members of the Uni’stot’en Camp in Prince George, BC, are named in a civil suit and injunction filed by TransCanada subsidiary Coastal GasLink.
Changes are being proposed o the First Nations Land Management Act and the First Nations Fiscal Management Act.
A new report has criticized the Thunder Bay Police Service, stating that systemic racism contributed to poor investigations of Indigenous deaths.
Last month, some of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) operations were shut down after being linked to tremors in northern BC. After earthquakes rattled Fort St.
The Fort McKay First Nation in Alberta is suing the province over development approvals on sacred land.
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has passed its own law regulating the cannabis industry on-reserve. Cannabis will not be distributed or sold until regulations under the law are developed and implemented. A three-person committee has been tasked with establishing and administerin
A group of First Nations leaders met with senators on the hill to discuss Bill C-48, which is also known as the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act. These First Nations leades want to stop the bill from passing.
First Nations child welfare legislation has been announced by the federal government. Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott reassured chiefs at the Special Chiefs Assembly that she did not want to litigation regarding Canada's underfunding of on-reserve child and family ser
