APTN National News political panel discusses Sisters in Spirit
APTN National News This week’s political panel discusses Sisters in Spirit.
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Anishinabe plan Ontario highway slowdown, brief blockade over education
Anishinabe leaders in Ontario are planning a traffic slowdown and a brief highway blockade for Monday to remind the federal government First Nations communities need to be consulted on any planned reforms to First Nations education, says Garden River band Coun. Darrell Boissoneau.
RCMP search for missing Francis Nawakayas
The RCMP has launched an air and ground search for a missing Saskatchewan First Nations woman.
GG’s wife visits suffering Ontario Ojibway community
The wife of Canada’s Governor General arrived Thursday morning in a remote northern Ontario Ojibway community that has been plagued by drug-fuelled violence.
B.C. premier steps down
British Columbia Premier Gordong Campbell suddenly resigned Thursday. APTN journalists discuss the stunning event.
Indigenous Potash Corp still eyeing potash play
A group of Five Saskatchewan First Nations say they’ve put together a deal to rival BHP Billiton’s recently rejected hostile takeover bid for Potash Corp of Saskatchewan.
US porn website accused of preying on FNs girls
The friend of woman filmed for an online video porn site featuring First Nations women says the woman doesn’t remember signing a consent form.
Moon setting on Sisters in Spirit?
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.
OPP Aboriginal unit fell under sway of Six Nations in Caledonia: book
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.
