The House of Commons will hold an emergency debate Monday evening after six separate incidents in two weeks where First Nations people were killed by police. Lori Idlout, MP for Nunavut, […]
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Feds urge human rights tribunal to dismiss concerns over Jordan’s Principle backlog
The federal government is urging the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to dismiss a leading First Nations child advocate’s concerns about a large backlog of unprocessed […]
Minister announces reversal of funding changes for residential school searches
The federal government says it will lift a recently imposed $500,000 cap on funding to locate or memorialize children who didn’t come home from residential schools […]
Funding cut for residential school searches ‘reflects a troubling denialism,’ says chief
Officials with Indigenous Services Canada told organizations and community leaders responsible for searches for missing children and unmarked burials at residential school sites Thursday their […]
Assembly of First Nations receives settlement offer to finalize reform of child welfare
The Assembly of First Nations has a draft settlement offer from the federal government to finalize long-term reform of First Nations child and family services, National […]
First Nations leaders from across Canada gather in Montreal for AFN annual general assembly
Delegates from hundreds of First Nations are meeting on Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) territory this week to discuss priorities. The Assembly of First Nations (AFN), a national advocacy […]
New billboard honours musician from Tataskweyak Cree Nation
A musician from Tataskweyak Cree Nation now greets anyone driving into the northern Manitoba community, or at least his image on a billboard does. Sebastian Gaskin went home last week to a surprise […]
Air Canada has new policy on sacred items in the cabin after incident with national chief’s headdress
The Assembly of First Nations National Chief is glad Air Canada has a new policy on bringing sacred and ceremonial items on board its aircraft, […]
Cree photographer captures elders portraits
A Cree photographer based out of Winnipeg wants to give others the thing she always wished she had — a picture of their grandparents. “Growing up, […]
Removal of Louis Riel Heritage Minute sparks debate about storytelling, censorship
WARNING: This story contains video portraying a re-enactment of the execution of Louis Riel. A history organization was right to remove a 1991 Heritage Minute […]