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SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. _ The chief of Sipekne’katik First Nation was taken in for questioning by federal Fisheries Department officers on Monday, moments after he announced…
WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister apologized Tuesday for comments he made almost a month earlier that angered Indigenous leaders and cost him a cabinet…
JOHN’S — A push to change the offensive name of a Newfoundland lake began with apparent plans for public consultation but ended in a flood…
Southern Ontario’s Wilfrid Laurier University says it will examine the “complex legacy” and present-day impact of its namesake in a new, multi-year public history project.…
KAMLOOPS — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is reiterating demands for more concrete action after meeting with Indigenous leaders at the site of a former residential…
LOS ANGELES — Saginaw Grant, a prolific Native American character actor and hereditary chief of the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma, has died. He…
WINNIPEG — A First Nations advocacy group in Manitoba is urging RCMP across the country to open criminal investigations into all former residential schools following…
WINNIPEG — A residential school in Manitoba known for harsh discipline and fatal runaway attempts has been the focus of a large-scale, years-long investigation into…
WINNIPEG — By the time Virginia Thomas left her home community of Bloodvein First Nation in eastern Manitoba on Monday evening, a nearby wildfire had…
VANCOUVER — The University of British Columbia’s faculty of medicine formally apologized Friday for its role in past and present harms to Indigenous Peoples and…
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he believes the Liberal government is “hypocritical” for saying it wants to make reparations for past sins against…
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — The town of Bridgewater in southwestern Nova Scotia has joined the growing list of communities that have dropped the name Cornwallis from…
More help is on the way for a First Nation gripped by an outbreak of COVID-19 in northern Ontario, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Friday.…
MONTREAL — Quebec isn’t interested in adding a statutory holiday in the province to recognize Indigenous Peoples. Premier Francois Legault told reporters today the province…