Exploring Theme: "Federal Budgets"

Nation Talk: Anishinabeknews.ca – WIIKWEMKOONG UNCEDED TERRITORY – Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory is urgently calling on the federal government to provide the remaining funds needed to construct a new Elders’ home, crucial for preventing the displacement of its senior residents, many of whom are Indian Residential School Survivors. “Our Elders, many of whom are Survivors of...

‘That is one of the most nefarious and deceitful things a bureaucracy could do,’ says NDP’s Blake Desjarlais CBC Indigenous: A New Democrat member of Parliament rebuked a federal housing executive on Thursday, after an audit found his organization shortchanged Prairie First Nations out of more than a quarter-billion dollars in housing cash. Alberta MP Blake...

‘We would be foolish if we didn’t look at other options,’ says Kebaowek Chief Lance Haymond CBC Indigenous: Some First Nations leaders and advocates are saying alternative financing solutions need to be explored to help close the infrastructure gap on-reserve, especially when it comes to housing. “We’re really going to be pressing the government to come...

APTN News: A new report from the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) says $349.2 billion is needed to fix housing and other infrastructure after decades of “underfunding, failed fiduciary duties, and unfair distribution of Canada’s wealth as a country.” The report, prepared with the federal government department of Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), was released Tuesday...

AFN regional chief hoping to make headway at meetings in Ottawa. APTN News: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won’t say whether First Nations in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be compensated after the Auditor General found they’ve been shortchanged for years on federal housing funds. Trudeau was in Winnipeg Wednesday to announce $1.5. billion for a...

‘Confirms what we know’: Treaty 6 grand chief says he wasn’t surprised by AG report on housing The Assembly of First Nations estimates it would take about $40 billion to close the housing gap on reserves. Photo: APTN file APTN News: The grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations says the auditor...

Housing organizations supporting Indigenous people say they are desperate for the money Ottawa’s new housing strategy is preparing to distribute. NationTalk: OTTAWA — Karl Cousineau has been living in shelters for half of his life. Raised in foster care from age nine after losing his father, Cousineau moved from Ottawa to Toronto when he was 20,...

‘I can’t believe he said that,’ responds Native Women’s Association of Canada head Carol McBride CBC News: Don’t tell Carol McBride housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility.  As a former chief, McBride remembers being in a housing crisis when she led the Timiskaming First Nation in northwestern Quebec — and that was in the 1990s....

Assembly of First Nations said last year $44B needed for current on-reserve housing requirements Nojoud Al Mallees, Alessia Passafiume · The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 19, 2023 12:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: August 19 CBC News: The Canadian Press – Stefania Giesbrecht was hoping that by the time she finished her studies, she could move back to her...

First Nation in Manitoba proposes class action against Ottawa for housing conditions. APTN News: The chief of a remote First Nation in northern Manitoba is proposing a national class action lawsuit against the federal government for failing to address the housing crisis in Indigenous communities. Chief Elvin Flett of St. Theresa Point First Nation is seeking $5...

First Nations built 4,200 new homes through federal program since Trudeau won power, documents show CBC News: Liberal government spending for on-reserve housing is on pace to leave First Nations out in the cold for decades, if not more than a century, two New Democrat MPs charged on Thursday in Ottawa. Newly released figures obtained...

Funds are part of a new federal $4.3 billion Indigenous Housing strategy to support improvements to First Nation and Metis housing By Frank O’Brien | January 9, 2023, 10:40am  NationTalk: BIV – A new Indigenous group is seeking control of $300 million in federal government funds meant to deliver housing to remote and rural Aboriginals across Canada....