‘A very gentle soul’: Inuit react to Canada’s first Indigenous Governor General
Sitting with her four-year-old daughter on her lap, Crystal Martin-Lepenskie had tears in her eyes…
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Remote Dené community in B.C. celebrates clean water for 1st time in decades
‘Even though we have a lot of lakes surrounding us all over, we never had drinking water,’ says chief
By the numbers: A look at COVID-19 in First Nations communities in western Canada
When Ms. Bourque finally arrived home in Edmonton from Atikameg (Whitefish Lake) First Nation, about…
Thousands rally to honour victims of residential schools on Canada Day
Rallies were held coast to coast as cities held scaled back or muted celebrations
Yukon communities boycott Canada Day celebrations in light of residential school gravesite discoveries
Six Yukon communities will not be holding a Canada Day celebration this year.
Parliamentary committee gives Liberals until March 2022 to come up with drinking water plan
Canada’s Public Accounts committee is recommending that the federal government deliver to it a plan…
Federal Liberals take heat for extending timeline to fix drinking water problems on First Nations
Government quietly tabled plan with new deadlines for water at a committee
Ottawa won’t end on-reserve water advisories until at least 2023, long term solutions coming later
‘This is an unacceptable failure’: MPs grill Indigenous Services top bureaucrat on when communities will have clean water for good
Federal budget pledges $18B in new money for Indigenous communities
The cash would be a 300 per cent jump from the 2019 allocation and would ‘further narrow gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples,’ says Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland