The proposed First Nation education bill partly unveiled this past Friday will still retain the “assimilating and paternalistic nature” of its previous incarnation, according to a Quebec First Nation education organization.
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News BRANDON, Man. – An Aboriginal youth and his mother…
APTN National News The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been extended by a year. The…
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Ivan Johnny isn’t going anywhere after the Parole Board denied his bid for release this week.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt released an open letter to Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo Friday urging the First Nations leader to keep working with him on developing legislation to govern on-reserve legislation.
-Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright, who is now under an RCMP investigation, once complained to the prime minister that the Senate committee on Aboriginal Affairs had called for increased funding for First Nation education.
The Harper government has given the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a one-year extension, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said Thursday.
