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.
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.
The Conservative government has rejected a controversial gold and copper mine proposal in British Columbia’s interior that threatened to destroy a lake sacred to area First Nations.
The federal government announced Friday it was launching a “multi-pronged” approach to combat violence against Aboriginal women.
A fly-in northern Ontario First Nation has declared a state of emergency over a rash of violent incidents, including murders and a series of arson attacks.
The province of Ontario has launched an investigation to find out whether human remains were extracted from a development on an ancient First Nations village site.
First Nations chiefs say they are disappointed but not surprised a special land claims tribunal with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s fingerprints remains stalled three years after it was unveiled amid much fanfare during a Parliament Hill press conference on a “historic day for Canada.”
The federal government should dilute the existing and unbridled power held by provinces to call in the military during times of domestic turmoil, says a former Indian Affairs deputy minister who held the post during the Oka crisis.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has over the past 15 years consistently raised objections to Taskeo Mine Inc’s controversial Prosperity gold and copper project in British Columbia’s interior, documents provided to APTN National News show.
