BC Coroner investigating death of FN foster child
The B.C. Coroner’s Office is investigating the death of a seven-month old First Nations infant, RCMP said.
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FN leaders call on Ottawa to sign declaration
Six months after a promise in the Speech from the Throne and three years after it was adopted, First Nations leaders in Canada continue to call on the Stephen Harper government to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
‘They thought that nobody would care’
A Yukon family has gone to court to quash the findings of a coroner’s inquest into the death of a 43-year-old First Nations man who died in a Whitehorse hospital after spending several hours lying in his own feces, urine and vomit inside an RCMP cell while watched and mocked by officers and guards.
B.C. launches Pickton inquiry
The British Columbia provincial government on Thursday announced that a public inquiry would be held into the Robert Pickton investigation and the wider issue of how authorities investigate missing women cases.
Off-reserve, Aboriginal languages survive
Aboriginal languages continue to survive in off-reserve First Nations homes, according to a new national study released Thursday.
‘We meant war, not murder’
Resistance to a planned gold and copper mine in British Columbia’s interior carries echoes of another conflict for the Tsilhqo’in people who are leading the fight to have the project stopped.
Chief: RCMP probe ‘rumour’
The chief of the Poundmaker reserve in Saskatchewan says neither he nor his band council are under RCMP investigation. Opponents of the band council, who have formed their own traditional council, say they have been interviewed by RCMP officers probing the affairs of the chief and band council.
Ottawa studies reserve land privatization
The Department of Indian Affairs has launched a nation-wide tour of reserves on what officials describe as a “special project” aimed at improving economic development on reserves.
$10,000 to find daughter
The family of a missing Saskatchewan woman is offering a $10,000 reward for information on their daughter.
