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Indigenous Canada challenges order to address Jordan’s Principle backlogIndigenous Services Canada is going to court to overturn an order requiring it to immediately address a backlog of requests at the Jordan’s Principle program for First Nations youth in need. Government identified 140,000 unprocessed applications but can’t say when they’ll beContinue Reading

Indigenous Indigenous leaders are reacting to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to shut down Parliament until March and resign once the Liberals select a successor. The move will kill key bills impacting Indigenous people and mean greater uncertainty for other initiatives. Decision to shut down Parliament until March will killContinue Reading

Indigenous Federal governments both Conservative and Liberal spent at least $14.5 million fighting prominent First Nations child advocate Cindy Blackstock in court over the last 18 years. Blackstock says the figure is “really disappointing,” while an NDP MP calls it “appalling.” Cindy Blackstock says the figure is ‘disappointing,’ NDP MPContinue Reading

Indigenous A residential school survivors’ group says it will have to close its doors at the end of the month unless it receives a federal funding decision. Laura Arndt, lead at the Survivors’ Secretariat in southern Ontario, is accusing Ottawa of breaking promises. “They lied” to survivors, she said. Survivors’Continue Reading

Born in 1983 from community demands in the wake of internal troubles, Akwesasne’s Indian Time newspaper published its final edition Thursday as tensions returned to this Indigenous territory that is severed by the Canada-U.S. border.  The shuttering of Indian Time closes the final chapter on a legacy of journalism inContinue Reading

Indigenous First Nations leaders are blasting the federal government and calling for an apology after Ottawa attributed its latest deficit overrun to Indigenous legal claims against the Crown. The statement “harkened back to the colonial mindset” to villainize and scapegoat First Nations, one leader says. Statement ‘harkened back to theContinue Reading

Indigenous At least two people have been found suffering from hypothermia following a search for suspected migrants crossing through a First Nations territory which straddles the both the Canada-U.S. and Ontario-Quebec borders, according to police. Both individuals were treated for hypothermia at local hospital and turned over to the CBSA,Continue Reading

Indigenous Closing arguments are underway in B.C. Supreme Court for the participants in the Wet’suwet’en blockade of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Defence alleges police actions were racist and says the court needs to distance itself from them Jackie McKay · CBC News · Posted: Dec 09, 2024 8:06 PM ESTContinue Reading

Indigenous Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed on everything from racism in policing, broken promises from 2015 and a lack of consultation on key pieces of proposed legislation at the Assembly of First Nations annual winter meeting in Ottawa Thursday. Prime minister pressed on broken promises, racism in policing andContinue Reading