Chiefs plot next steps following education bill rejection
APTN National News A day after the special assembly rejected the federal government’s education bill,…
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Grassroots still unhappy with inner workings of AFN meetings
While chiefs meet to decide the fate of the education bill and the next national chief, people at the grassroots level say they are on the outside looking in.
Kinew to respect chiefs’ ‘process’ before final decision on AFN national chief run
Wab Kinew says he’s contemplating a run for the role of national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Valcourt attacks Confederacy of Nations, calls chiefs ‘rogue’ and threats to national security
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt moved aggressively to undermine the Confederacy of Nations Thursday, labeling the chiefs behind the organization as rogues who are “threatening” national security.
Confederacy of Nations seeking education ‘accord’ with Ottawa: document
A group of Ottawa’s poor and homeless gathered on the sidewalk outside St. Paul’s waiting patiently to begin their weekly service unusually held in the church basement occupied on this Wednesday evening by First Nation leaders gathered for what many of them deemed to be a historic event.
Confederacy of Nations poised to hold first meeting in decade: Nepinak
A long dormant governing body within in the Assembly of First Nations is set to hold its first meeting in a decade this week in Ottawa, says the head of Manitoba’s largest chiefs organization.
British Columbia reacts to resignation of national chief
Last Friday, Shawn Atleo called it quits becoming the first national chief of the Assembly of First Nations to resign.
Ontario regional chief invokes AFN charter to trigger emergency meeting on First Nation education bill
The regional chief for Ontario is calling for an emergency Assembly of First Nations meeting to deal with the controversial First Nation education bill currently before Parliament.
Parliamentary committee’s report on violence against Indigenous women ‘sanitized’
APTN National News OTTAWA–The Conservative MPs on the House of Commons special committee on violence…