Ottawa should offer Indigenous language training, exemptions to public servants: memo

OTTAWA — Senior civil servants explored offering
Indigenous-language training to federal employees and possible
exemptions to those who already speak one from requiring fluency in
both English and…

Supporters of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs rally against B.C. natural gas pipeline

VANCOUVER — A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief says he and counterparts from other clans have never surrendered rights to 22,000 square kilometres of traditional territory in…

National Indigenous group asks Ottawa to act quickly to bring Indigenous woman home

REGINA — A national Indigenous group says it is urging Ottawa to act quickly to bring home a Saskatoon woman who is jailed in the…

Ezra Miller seeks treatment for ‘mental health issues’

NEW YORK (AP) — After a string of arrests and erratic behavior that spanned Hawaii to Vermont, “Flash” actor Ezra Miller said they have begun…

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs removes Arlen Dumas as grand chief over sexual harassment

WINNIPEG — An Indigenous leader in Manitoba was removed from his job Friday after being accused of sexual harassment. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs voted…

Saskatoon woman who had been reported missing faces charges in U.S., Canada

SASKATOON — A woman who was reported missing with her seven-year-old son is facing criminal charges in Canada and the United States. Saskatoon police said…

After Pope called residential schools ‘genocide,’ House of Commons should too: NDP MP

OTTAWA — A New Democrat member of Parliament said Tuesday she hopes all of her colleagues will recognize the residential schools system as genocide, now…

Pope travels to Canada to apologize for Roman Catholic involvement in Indian Residential School System

MASKWACIS — Tears streamed down the faces of Indigenous elders and survivors of residential schools as Pope Francis stood before them and begged forgiveness for…

First Nations in northern Ontario facing COVID surge amid health care worker shortage

A public health official says First Nations in northern Ontario are in a “very dire situation” as they deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases…

Ottawa says it will support First Nations fight against Quebec’s new language law

MONTREAL — The federal minister of Indigenous services said Thursday she supports the will of Indigenous communities to be exempt from Quebec’s new language law,…

Pat John, Indigenous actor on long running TV show ‘The Beachcombers,’ dies at 69

Pat John, an actor on the long-running Canadian television show “The Beachcombers,” has died at the age of 69. John, a member of the sishalt…

Federal government to provide more than $35 million for supports during papal visit

OTTAWA — The federal government says it will provide more than $35 million during the papal visit to Canada to support Indigenous communities, organizations and…

Canada’s reckoning with colonialism and education must include Indian Day Schools

By Sean Carleton and Jackson Pind Sparked by the locating of hundreds of possible unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools across the country, there…

Five year old boy missing in Saskatchewan since April found dead in river

RED EARTH CREE NATION — A five-year-old boy missing from a First Nation in northern Saskatchewan since April has been found dead in a river…

Scan of residential school grounds begins near Port Alberni, B.C.

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. — A Vancouver Island First Nation says the first phase of scanning for unmarked graves has begun on the grounds of a…