Feds fail to measure social, economic gaps between First Nations, others: audit

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Canada is failing to measure and accurately report the social and economic gaps between First Nations people on reserves and other…

Feds fail to measure social, economic gaps between First Nations, others: audit

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Canada is failing to measure and accurately report the social and economic gaps between First Nations people on reserves and other…

Health in Grassy Narrows ‘significantly worse’ than other First Nations: report

TORONTO — The physical and mental health of people living in Grassy Narrows is “significantly worse” than other First Nations since mercury was dumped into…

Ontario lawyers receive guide to Indigenous legal rights, history and culture (Indigenous-Legal-Guide)

TORONTO _ The regulatory body for Ontario’s lawyers and paralegals has released a guide to help legal professionals better understand the legal rights, history and…

Federal government spending $4.5B to buy Trans Mountain pipeline, B.C. terminal

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government plans to spend $4.5 billion to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline and all of Kinder Morgan Canada’s core assets.…

Saskatchewan First Nations group releases suicide prevention plan (Sask-Indigenous-Suicide)

WHITECAP DAKOTA FIRST NATION, Sask. _ Saskatchewan’s painfully high Indigenous suicide rates call out for a co-ordinated, community-run approach to bring them down, says a…

Ban solitary confinement for mentally ill, Indigenous inmates: rights groups

OTTAWA — Three civil rights organizations joined forces Monday to voice their concern over the ongoing use of indefinite solitary confinement for prison inmates _…

Indigenous Peoples need help with dementia, Algonquin elder urges conference

OTTAWA — An Algonquin elder described Monday how shocked she was to learn — almost by accident — that a routine nursing-home visit with her…

500 year old skeletons headed for Native American tribes

BOISE, ID — Two 500-year-old skeletons discovered in Idaho’s high desert plains will be turned over to Native American tribes. U.S. officials in a series…

Real estate association calls for moratorium on homegrown recreational cannabis

TORONTO — Canada’s real estate industry organization is calling for a moratorium on growing recreational marijuana at home until the government sets out nationwide regulations…

Yucca plastic may be our salvation

BALI — To a world that is being choked to death by plastic waste, there is good news on the horizon. Researchers have been working…

‘We are entitled to justice:’ Family of Colten Boushie speaks at United Nations

NEW YORK CITY — Family and supporters of a young Indigenous man shot and killed on a Saskatchewan farm used the international stage of the…

Canada mishandling nuclear waste plans warn First Nations, environmental groups

 OTTAWA — First Nations leaders say they have not been properly consulted about the prospect of a nuclear waste disposal site being established northwest of…

Tribes’ request for more say in Dakota Access study denied

BISMARCK, ND — A judge has rejected the request by two American Indian tribes to be more involved in a court-ordered environmental review of the…

‘It’s just like we’re forgotten people’: Indigenous evacuees waiting to go home

KAPUSKASING — Paul Edwards sits alone at a bare table and washes down scrambled eggs with coffee in the large auditorium of the civic centre…