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…

Reviewing treatment of Inuit children in Newfoundland child welfare

ST. JOHN’S, NL — An independent review into the treatment of Inuit children and youth in Newfoundland and Labrador’s child welfare system will be led…

Saskatchewan farmer acquitted in death of Indigenous man guilty of gun charge

NORTH BATTLEFORD, SK — A Saskatchewan farmer acquitted in the fatal shooting of a young Indigenous man is giving up his guns and has been…

Too many black, Indigenous kids in Ontario child welfare system, report finds

TORONTO — Black and Indigenous children appear to be put into care in relatively far greater numbers than other racial groups in Ontario, according to…

B.C. threatens to sue Alberta as all sides in Trans Mountain dispute dig in

VICTORIA — All sides in the escalating dispute over the Trans Mountain expansion project appear to be digging in with the Alberta and British Columbia…

Clint Eastwood told ‘Indian Horse’ director: ‘People need to see this movie’

TORONTO — When Canadian director Stephen S. Campanelli showed his new film “Indian Horse” to his mentor, Clint Eastwood, the four-time Oscar winner was in…

Mental health services for Ontario First Nations being expanded

OTTAWA — The federal and Ontario governments are putting up $5 million each to establish 19 new mental wellness teams for First Nations communities. The…

Tour of ancient Indigenous village offers unique B.C. vacation opportunity

BAMFIELD, BC — Surrounded by old-growth rainforest against the rocky shoreline on the southwest edge of Vancouver Island lies a centuries-old Indigenous village where traditional…