Alberta First Nation NDP candidate says she faced hate, racism on campaign trail
(Katherine Swampy voting Tuesday in Alberta where she says she experienced racism during the campaign)…
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New Premier tells Alberta’s Indigenous peoples: “I am looking forward to consulting with you and learning from you”
Brandi Morin APTN National News Hopes are high among many of Alberta’s Indigenous communities after…
Bellegarde email urges MPs to support bill on UN Indigenous rights declaration
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde wrote an email to MP’s urging them to support Cree NDP MP Romeo Saganash’s private members bill
Manitoba chiefs faced grassroots backlash during meeting with NDP leadership candidates
Opinions are getting heated over the question of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
PM Harper’s QP defence against calling an inquiry discredited by report on violence against Indigenous women
Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended his refusal to call a public inquiry into the high number of murdered and missing Indigenous women Thursday by using talking points undercut by a report released on the issue earlier in the day.
AFN fears ‘unjust labelling’ of First Nations activists as ‘terrorists’ under proposed anti-terror bill: document
The Assembly of First Nations will be seeking to appear as a witness before the House of Commons committee currently studying the Harper government’s proposed anti-terror bill.[…]
Fighting words: NDP MP takes aim at Indigenous Liberal candidates over anti-terrorism bill
Jorge Barrera APTN National News Indigenous Liberal candidates endorse a threat against Aboriginal rights by…
NDP leadership candidates debate Manitoba’s battered relationship with Indigenous people
The headlines coming out of Manitoba have been ugly lately.
NDP MP says residential school survivors facing betrayal of justice promise
An NDP MP says he’s received the brush-off from the body responsible for settling claims from Indian residential school survivors after asking when it knew federal government lawyers were supressing information about brutal abuses at a school in Fort Albany, Ont.