News/Indigenous (Page 8)

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) discharged toxic sewage at the Chalk River site along the Ottawa River during peak fish spawning season earlier this year, CBC Indigenous has learned. Environment Canada confirms its enforcement officers in late April issued CNL a compliance direction, a tool used to correct violations of Fisheries ActContinue Reading

Indigenous The Trudeau government is promising $9 billion in new cash for Indigenous communities over the next five years, a smaller spend than some past budgets but one the government says builds on past investments and maintains an upward trend. $5B in Indigenous loan guarantees for resource and energy projectsContinue Reading

Indigenous Katsi’tsakwas (Ellen Gabriel) is the first Indigenous artist to win the Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal since the prize’s launch in 1985. Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal started in 1985 Candace Maracle · CBC News · Posted: Apr 16, 2024 4:11Continue Reading

Indigenous Canada acted dishonourably by breaching its treaty obligations to the Blood Tribe in Alberta, but the band is barred from suing by the province’s statute of limitations, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. High court confirms Alberta’s statute of limitations applies to the band’s treaty-based lawsuit Brett ForesterContinue Reading

Indigenous Unless the federal government acts now, the cost of closing the on-reserve infrastructure gap will top half a trillion dollars by 2040, the Assembly of First Nations says, joining a chorus of voices warning Ottawa is at risk of missing its targets. On-reserve infrastructure gap to top $500B byContinue Reading

Indigenous The RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group in British Columbia — dogged for years by formal complaints, lawsuits, alleged civil and Indigenous rights violations and an ongoing federal investigation — officially has a new name and mandate. Community-Industry Response Group became Critical Response Unit in January, Mounties say Brett Forester ·Continue Reading

Indigenous When a total solar eclipse passes over upstate New York on April 8, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy will celebrate the once in a lifetime event as the anniversary of its founding. Path of totality will pass over Seneca village where confederacy was born under an eclipse Candace Maracle · CBCContinue Reading

Indigenous A Senate committee studying a bill to establish a criminal offence with respect to sterilization procedures heard emotional testimony from a survivor of coerced sterilization on Thursday.  ‘It’s like you wiped out a generation,’ says member of Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice Jackie McKay · CBC News · Posted: Feb 29,Continue Reading

Indigenous Grassy Narrows Chief Rudy Turtle is calling out the federal government as a long-promised mercury poisoning treatment centre for the northern Ontario First Nation remains beset by delays tied to federal funding uncertainty. Trudeau said ‘money is not the objection’ to building the centre during 2019 election debate BrettContinue Reading