Rally calls for culture fund to be reinstated

TORONTO — It was a cold but powerful gathering outside Queen’s Park in Toronto where hundreds rallied to push Ford’s PC government to reinstate the…

Iroquois Lodge

OHSWEKEN — Last Thursday, Kenny and Sonya Sault performed with an ensemble for the elders at the Iroquois Lodge. The duo took to Facebook after…

Saskatchewan First Nation files claim in court over cannabis dispensary

REGINA — A First Nation operating a cannabis dispensary without a provincial permit has laid the groundwork for taking the federal and Saskatchewan governments to…

Liberals table ‘historic’ Indigenous child welfare bill

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…

B.C. First Nation near pipeline explosion files lawsuit against Enbridge

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…

New homes, new neighbourhood at Six Nations

OHSWEKEN — Six Nations Elected Council celebrated the completion of 5 townhouse units in a new residential area just off Fourth Line in Ohsweken. The…

Elected Council declares Human Trafficking Awareness Day for Six Nations

OHSWEKEN — Six Nations Elected Council took steps to declare February 22, 2019 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day at Six Nations of the Grand…

Six Nations celebrated as a safe community

OHSWEKEN — Elected Chief Ava Hill and the Six Nations Elected Council were presented with a community safety award, celebrating Six Nations of the Grand…

HDI ordered to pay $15,500 in costs to plaintiffs in putative class action

OHSWEKEN — A Hamilton judge has ordered the defendants to pay $15,500 in costs to Bill Monture and Wilf Davey in a putative class action…

First Nations University president says he won’t seek another term

REGINA — The president of the First Nations University of Canada says he will not be seeking a second term and will step down when…

The significance of Jody Wilson Raybould invoking Indigenous ‘Big House’ laws

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…

Liberals table ‘historic’ Indigenous child welfare bill

OTTAWA — If an Indigenous woman in labour in Winnipeg is being challenged on whether she is fit to parent her newborn, Treasury Board President…

Philpott joins Wilson Raybould in resigning from cabinet over SNC Lavalin

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…

Taiaiake Alfred resigns from University of Victoria’s Indigenous Governance program

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…

Jody Wilson Raybould comes from a long line of Indigenous truth tellers

Author: Corrie Scott, Associate professor, University of Ottawa On Anti-Bullying Day, Canadians watched their former minister of justice and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould _ a…