The newly acclaimed chief of a small northern Algonquin community is expected to reject the position later today in protest over Indian Affairs’ decision to impose a band council under rarely used Indian Act powers, his father claims.
Ontario First Nations leaders sealed a deal on the Harmonized Sales Tax with federal and provincial officials Thursday, preempting plans for rail and highway blockades over the looming loss of the 30 year-old point-of-sale provincial tax exemption.
A First Nations rights group is still planning blockades around Toronto on June 24 despite warnings from Canada’s spy agency and the increased security around the gathering of world leaders the same week.
The Ontario and federal governments should reverse course and exempt First Nations from the harmonized sales tax or authorities could find themselves facing a situation reminiscent of 2007 when Mohawks from Tyendinaga faced-off with police during a blockade of the province’s main highway, according to one of the Mohawks involved in that protest.
An Akwesasne woman had reason to fear “retaliation” from the Canada Border Services Agency in response to her human rights complaint alleging border agents targeted her because she is Mohawk, according the chair of the Human Rights Tribunal hearing the case.
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New Brunswick RCMP have launched a criminal investigation into allegations of vote buying on the Burnt Church reserve, according to RCMP Const. Chantal Farrah.
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The widow of a Mi’kmaq man gunned down in his home by an RCMP constable says police offered to let her keep three shell casings from the gun that killed her husband.
