The Conservative government is opposing the use of the name Sisters in Spirit and any work on a groundbreaking database on murdered and missing Aboriginal women cases if the Native Women’s Association of Canada expects to receive any funding for new projects on the issue, sources say.
An Ontario Provincial Police unit created to deal with First Nations protests and blockades developed “Stockholm syndrome” with the leaders behind the Six Nations land seizure of a residential development in Caledonia, Ont., a new book claims.
The Conservative government has rejected a controversial gold and copper mine proposal in British Columbia’s interior that threatened to destroy a lake sacred to area First Nations.
An urgent call for help was issued by a First Nations chief in Northern Ontario whose community has been gripped by widespread addiction to prescription drugs.
The Native Women’s Association of Canada is taking heat for backing the Conservative’s recent announcement on a strategy to deal with murdered and missing Aboriginal women’s cases.
Front line advocates and family members of Aboriginal women who have been victims of violence say they are disgusted with the Conservative’s $10 million strategy to deal with the hundreds of murdered and missing women cases across the country.
The Conservative government is pushing through portions of their tough-on-crime agenda under the cover of a national strategy to deal with the hundreds of murdered and missing Aboriginal women cases, opposition critics say.
The federal government announced Friday it was launching a “multi-pronged” approach to combat violence against Aboriginal women.
The potash debate continues to heat up in Saskatchewan as a local First Nations get involved in the struggle over the province’s lucrative resource.
