Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"

Joannes Rivoire, who denied the historical allegations, died in April. Tanya Tungilik speaks to reporters in France in 2022 about her father’s case. Photo: Kathleen Martens/APTN News  APTN News: Nunavut RCMP say they have closed their investigation into a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing Inuit children nearly 40 years ago because he died in...

Elsipogtog First Nation calling for thorough investigation of incident CBC News: A Mi’kmaw man was shot and killed by police late Sunday night on the Elsipogtog First Nation, about 55 kilometres north of Moncton.  A statement from the First Nation said the band sent its condolences to the man’s family and the entire community. It said immediate action...

‘We want to know what happened, what he went through,’ says daughter of Marius Tungilik.  The RCMP detachment in Iqaluit. The Mounties say they won’t hand over a complaint filed against a French priest that was lodged in the 1990s. Photo: APTN.  APTN News: An Inuk woman is fighting to get her father’s criminal complaint...

RCMP officers block the road leading to the Fairy Creek encampment on the day arrests began, May 17, 2021. Photo by Jimmy Thomson / Canada’s National Observer Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: The RCMP’s controversial C-IRG unit hired a third-party intelligence company to spy on the online activities of Fairy Creek activists, newly available documents...

C-IRG is ‘uniquely situated’ to operate in area if required by court order, spokesperson says CBC News: The RCMP says it will not commit to respecting a Gitxsan hereditary chiefs’ decision banning the Mounties’ Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) from unceded lands in northwest B.C. The chiefs ordered the C-IRG not to trespass or be deployed across 35,000 square kilometres...