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November 6, 2024
Indigenous friendship centres say they can’t handle the costs of climate crisis and urbanization
National Association of Friendship Centre CEO Jocelyn Formsma speaks at the organization’s summit last year. Photo submitted Canada’s National Observer: Friendship centres, which serve the needs of urban Indigenous people, are increasingly important in responding to climate disasters. They have even led emergency responses — like the local friendship centre did at Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, coordinating...
November 1, 2024
Imperial urges regulator to ‘correct mistake’ of assessment
A file photo of Norman Wells shows Imperial Oil’s facility, left. Sahtu Wildlife/Flickr First People’s Law Report: Cabin Radio – Imperial Oil said some Indigenous governments’ interpretations of federal legislation would render the law “meaningless” as the company fights to shut down an environmental assessment of its Norman Wells facility. Multiple Indigenous governments have backed the...
October 7, 2024
Indigenous groups in U.S. and Canada clash over cross-border land claims
Globe and Mail: One of the most powerful Indigenous alliances in Canada is opening a new campaign to sideline a tribal group in the U.S. that has claimed the right to influence development and resources in a large swath of British Columbia. The Okanagan Nation Alliance, the group in Canada, says governments and industry need...
October 7, 2024
Self-identifying Indigenous group got $74-million in federal cash, Inuit leader wants change
Globe and Mail: As millions in federal funding flow into a Labrador group whose claims of Inuit identity have been rejected by Indigenous organizations across Canada, a national Inuit leader worries the Liberal government is putting the rights of Indigenous Peoples at risk. Natan Obed, president of an organization representing about 70,000 Inuit across Canada,...
October 4, 2024
Accountability not national inquiry needed into First Nations deaths, says Anandasangaree
A timeline shows who was killed when in recent police interactions across the country. APTN News: The minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations is dismissing the call for a national inquiry into the recent deaths by police of nine First Nations people. “I think there’s definitely a need to have every one of these deaths investigated and...
October 4, 2024
Canada legally obligated to provide sustainable, long-term funding for unmarked grave searches: Murray
APTN News: Canada’s special interlocutor for missing children, unmarked graves and burial sites says the federal government needs to ensure funding for searches is both sustainable and long-term. “I have raised this with the government – both in my interim report and over the last two years – that there has to be sustainable funding...
October 4, 2024
Opposition MPs call Fort Chipewyan dock contamination ‘environmental racism’
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam at a press conference in Ottawa on April 17, 2023. Photo by Natasha Bulowski / Canada’s National ObserverListen to article Canada’s National Observer: Opposition MPs say the federal government’s failure to inform northern Alberta Indigenous communities about contamination at a critical dock in Fort Chipewyan is a clear...
October 3, 2024
Federal fisheries officers refusing duties because of violence on the water in N.S.
Federal fisheries officers in Nova Scotia say they’re refusing some enforcement duties because of threats to their safety, as they await Ottawa’s response to their complaints. Toronto Star: Federal fisheries officers in Nova Scotia say they’re refusing some enforcement duties because of threats to their safety, as they await Ottawa’s response to their complaints. The...
October 3, 2024
BCMF Provides Clarity in the Face of Growing Misinformation
NationTalk: In the face of growing online controversy and misinformation related to the BC Métis Federation’s (BCMF) lawsuit against the Government of Canada, BCMF is issuing the following statement in clarification. Several First Nation groups have stated that BCMF is trying to assert title for Métis in British Columbia. This is unequivocally untrue. BCMF has...
October 3, 2024
Pinaymootang First Nation man acquitted 50 years after his murder conviction
APTN News: Clarence Woodhouse from Pinaymootang First Nation in Manitoba is free after being acquitted of a murder he was convicted on 50 years ago. Woodhouse was found guilty in 1974 of fatally beating and stabbing a restaurant worker in downtown Winnipeg in 1973. “I’ll probably just relax; relax, play with my son,” he told...
October 3, 2024
Threat of federal election could sink wrongful conviction review board, says Innocence Canada
Bill C-40 was designed to speed up conviction review process. The wrongful conviction committee was a topic of conversation at the 10th anniversary gala of Innocence Canada. Photo: Kathleen Martens/APTN. APTN News: An organization that works to free innocent people from Canada’s prisons says hope is fading that an independent body to review possible wrongful...
October 3, 2024
What does the future of salmon farming look like in B.C.?
The last open-net pen salmon farms in B.C. have until July 2029 to figure out a different way of doing business. Environmental advocates say the shift is long overdue but the industry warns the timeline is impossible. Photo: Jérémy Mathieu / The Narwhal The Narwhal: Following decades of controversy, open-net pen salmon farming in B.C....
October 2, 2024
Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta accuse Ottawa of environmental ‘cover up’
APTN News: Indigenous leaders in Fort Chipewyan in northern Alberta are accusing the federal government of failing to inform them of environmental contamination in their community. The leaders’ concerns are focused on a federally owned dock within the community, known locally as the “big dock.” The dock is commonly used by community members for fishing,...
October 1, 2024
Labrador residents say ‘inhumane’ food prices force families to go hungry
Nain has some of the highest food prices in remote Canadian regions CBC Indigenous: A mother in a community where the cost of living is one of the highest in the country says grocery prices are “inhumane” and retailers are putting profits ahead of people’s basic human right to food. Rosie Harris lives in a...
September 30, 2024
Residential school survivors urge Ottawa to step up funding for searches
Majority say Canada should do more to recognize legacy of residential schools: pollclose video WATCH: Majority say Canada should do more to recognize legacy of residential schools Global News: Residential school survivors say the federal government is keeping the truth about those institutions in the dark by cutting back on funding for records and ground...
September 30, 2024
Opinion | When I heard my grandparents’ Indigenous language on the radio, it felt like home. I had to learn it, too. Here’s what got in the way
Toronto Star: Keisha Erwin is a nīhithaw (citizen of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band) and Afro-Caribbean second language learner of nīhithawīwin. It’s been nine years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission made 94 Calls to Action urging all levels of Canadian government to address the ongoing impact of residential schools. Progress has stalled. We asked three Indigenous...
September 28, 2024
First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders say work lays ahead on road to reconciliation
The Liberal party of today is not quite the same as the one elected in 2015 promising to foster new paths and nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous Peoples, the leaders of the three national Indigenous organizations said as they look ahead to the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday. Métis National Council President...
September 27, 2024
Many Indigenous public servants work in just three departments—a trend that is ‘deeply concerning’
NationTalk: Ottawa Sun – Academics say the larger concentration of Indigenous employees in just a few federal organizations limits them to roles typically linked with Indigenous-specific issues. A lack of Indigenous representation across federal government organizations and pay levels is “deeply concerning” and “problematic” according to an academic focused on politics and Indigenous resurgence. The...
September 26, 2024
45 First Nations denounce group claiming to represent B.C. Métis
B.C. Métis Federation suing federal government for not recognizing it CBC Indigenous: Dozens of First Nations in British Columbia are denouncing an organization claiming to represent Métis from the province. Chiefs and councillors from 45 Coast Salish First Nations have signed a statement in opposition to the B.C. Métis Federation (BCMF). Tsartlip First Nation Chief...
September 26, 2024
Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council Declares State of Emergency Due to Toxic Drugs
What is currently offered is ‘not enough,’ says Cloy-e-iis Judith Sayers. The Tyee: The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council has declared a state of emergency in all 14 Nuu-chah-nulth nations due to the devastating loss of life caused by the unregulated toxic drug supply. More funding is needed from the province and federal governments so communities along...
September 19, 2024
14 First Nations on Vancouver Island declare state of emergency
Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council seeks mental health and crisis supports CBC Indigenous: Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council (NTC) has declared a state of emergency for all 14 First Nations on Vancouver Island it represents due to the mental health and opioid crisis. At a news conference in Port Alberni, B.C., Thursday, NTC president Judith Sayers, a member of Hupacasath First...