HALIFAX _ Twenty years ago, only 30 per cent of Nova Scotia’s Mi’kmaq students were graduating from high school. Today, that number stands at 90…
WINNIPEG — A Manitoba mother says the death of her four-month old while in the custody of foster parents shows a system set up to…
OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government plans to spend $4.5 billion over the next five years to try to narrow the socio-economic gap between Indigenous…
FLAGSTAFF, AZ — John Little can hardly go a week without a reminder that he and other Native Americans often are viewed as relics of…
REGINA — A First Nation operating a cannabis dispensary without a provincial permit has laid the groundwork for taking the federal and Saskatchewan governments to…
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has tabled its promised child welfare legislation aimed at stopping the over-representation of Indigenous children in foster care. The bill…
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A British Columbia First Nation near the explosion of a natural gas transmission pipeline owned by Enbridge has filed a lawsuit…
REGINA — The president of the First Nations University of Canada says he will not be seeking a second term and will step down when…
TORONTO — Rarely are Indigenous laws invoked on Parliament Hill, but that’s exactly what happened this week when Jody Wilson-Raybould cited core values shaped by…
OTTAWA — If an Indigenous woman in labour in Winnipeg is being challenged on whether she is fit to parent her newborn, Treasury Board President…
OTTAWA _ Treasury Board president Jane Philpott resigned Monday from the federal cabinet, saying she’s lost confidence in the way the Trudeau government has dealt…
The University of Victoria’s Indigenous Governance (IGOV) program will have a new face leading the program, after the figure at its centre will no longer…
AKWESASNE/ST REGIS — Two raids in one month on a collectively owned cannabis dispensary on Akwesasne led members in support of the dispensary to clash…
Authors: Hannah Tait Neufeld, Assistant Professor of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph; Brittany Luby, Assistant Professor of History, University of Guelph, and…
OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the “enormously complicated” effort to end all drinking-water advisories in First Nations communities isn’t being held back by…