Saskatchewan to meet with First Nation operating unlicensed cannabis store
REGINA _ Saskatchewan's justice minister is to meet next week with the chief of a First Nation that has opened an unlicensed cannabis store. Don…
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Indigenous leaders say reconciliation involves recognition of values, culture
SIDNEY, B.C. _ A federal government initiative to support Indigenous conservation efforts will help strengthen reconciliation across Canada, chiefs, leaders and elders said Tuesday. The…
Study: Weak reporting on missing, murdered Native women
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Numerous police departments nationwide are not adequately identifying or reporting cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls as concerns mount…
Tsilhqot’in and Ottawa to sign financial deal as part of new relationship: chief (Indigenous-Finance)
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. _ The leader of Canada's first Indigenous group to win title to its territory says an updated agreement it's negotiating with the…
B.C. to increase Indigenous participation in environmental assessments
VICTORIA — British Columbia's government is moving to increase the participation of Indigenous people in the environmental assessment of projects with new legislation tabled Monday.…
Indigenous people worry Saskatchewan trespassing plan may stoke racial tensions
REGINA — A Saskatchewan grandmother who was confronted by a farmer with a gun says changing trespassing laws probably won't stop crime but could increase…
Trudeau, making things right in BC
Tsilhqot’in Territory BC — October 26, 2018 marked the 154th anniversary of British Columbia’s martyrdom of the “Chilcotin Chiefs.” Riding a black horse into the…
Family calls for inquest into death of former Grassy Narrows First Nation chief
TORONTO — The family of an Ontario First Nation chief who was a vocal advocate for a community plagued by a mercury-contaminated river called Friday…
Police reopen investigation into 1972 death of Ontario Indigenous teen
SIOUX LOOKOUT — Concerns raised by the family of an Indigenous teen who died in northern Ontario more than four decades ago have prompted the…
‘In our bloodline:’ Land based learning links curriculum with Indigenous culture
REGINA — A school day for six-year-old Hunter Sasakamoose can start with lighting a fire for breakfast and end with doing math by candlelight. In…
Inuit walk away from talks on reforming federal northern food subsidy program
Talks to reform subsidies intended to eliminate the $10 carton of milk face by northern families remain stalled over concerns from Inuit that they don't…
Ottawa ready to help as Inuit health officials grapple with spate of suicides
MONTREAL — The federal government says it will respond to pleas for help from northern Quebec, where a spate of suicides in Inuit communities this…
Ontario’s basic income pilot to end March 2019
TORONTO — Thousands of people participating in Ontario's basic income pilot will receive their last payment on March 31, 2019, the province says, but an…
Trans Mountain pipeline ruling shakes central pillar of Trudeau agenda
OTTAWA _ On Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau painstakingly explained to students in Kapuskasing, Ont., how the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is a central…
How schools are working to Indigenize programs, campus life
This summer, as students prepared to go back to school, some post-secondary institutions did preparing of their own to make changes that they say address…