Idle No More confronts Aboriginal Affairs minister
Tempers flared as Idle No More protesters confronted Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt at a media conference in Winnipeg Wednesday.
Tempers flared as Idle No More protesters confronted Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt at a media conference in Winnipeg Wednesday.
-A January walk that began in Quebec’s northernmost Cree community with a snow machine breaking trail ended 1,600 kilometres later with a crowd of people forming a path on Parliament Hill to make way for a group of Cree youth who had captured the attention of a nation.
Idle No More showed up at a meeting outside of Halifax Thursday.
They came. They sung. And they shared.
A northern Manitoba chief has been sued by the HudBay Mining Company for Idle No More protests and blockades.
Idle No More has joined forces with Defenders of the Land and the new alliance plans to launch “escalating action” during what is being called the “Sovereignty Summer,” according to a draft joint declaration obtained by APTN National News.
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae and former AFN national chief Phil Fontaine recently met in Winnipeg to discuss the way forward for Aboriginal people and Canada.
Armed with walking sticks and fighting blistered feet, a group of walkers is slowly making tracks to Ottawa.
A prominent Mi’kmaq leader says he would rather resign as head of Nova Scotia’s treaty rights organization than see a young First Nation woman harmed because of her ongoing hunger strike.