Monitoring of Blackstock's social media sites still going on
Earlier this year Canada’s privacy commissioner ordered the Departments of Justice and Aboriginal Affairs to stop monitoring Cindy Blackstock’s social media sites.
Aboriginal Affairs
Lawyer says Ottawa won't agree to stop spying on First Nations children's advocate
The lawyer for a First Nations children’s advocate plans to ask the Human Rights Tribunal to order the federal government to cease surveillance on his client.
First Nation infants subject to "human experimental work" for TB vaccine in 1930s-40s
The nutritional experiments conducted in First Nation communities and in Indian residential schools were not the only example where Canada’s Indigenous population faced treatment as “guinea pigs,” academic research shows.
Residential school commission received nutritional experiment documents in 2010
The commission created to delve into the dark history of residential schools has been in possession of documents related to nutritional experiments conducted on First Nations people for at least three years, according to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt’s office.
NDP call for investigation into federal government's conduct at human rights tribunal
APTN National News The federal New Democratic Party is calling for an independent investigation into…
Kanesatake grand chief calls for referendum as political division threaten health centre
The grand chief of Kanesatake, the Mohawk community once at the heart of the Oka Crisis, plans to hold a referendum June 15 on the current band council which has been engulfed by internal divisions that now threaten the operations of the health centre.
AFN hit with surprise $1.7 million cut
The Harper government has hit the Assembly of First Nations with an about $1.7 million cut in a surprise move that is also expected to impact 46 other First Nation organizations.
Aboriginal Affairs 'lied' about privacy watchdog's response to internal probe of spying allegation: MP
Opposition MPs pounced on the Harper government following findings by the Office of Privacy Commissioner that Aboriginal Affairs and Justice Canada officials spied on First Nations children’s advocate Cindy Blackstock.
Feds told to stop spying on Cindy Blackstock
The Privacy Commissioner has ordered the federal government to stop monitoring Cindy Blackstock.