Ottawa police chief speaks out on beating videos
Ottawa’s police chief is calling for calm in the wake of two videos showing officers kicking prisoners.
Ontario
Human rights complaint launched over sub-standard policing
Since 1994 the Nishnawbe Aski Police in Ontario has been saying that its level of service does not match up with non-Aboriginal police forces. But those complaints have fallen on deaf ears. Now, they are the source of a human rights complaint.
Indian Affairs defends bottled water cut to Ontario FN
Indian Affairs is defending its decision to limit bottled water shipments to an Ontario First Nation that has been without a clean water supply source since the summer.
Indian Affairs cuts water shipments to Ontario FN
Indian Affairs is forcing the reduction of bottled water shipments to a northern Ontario First Nations that has been without a clean water supply source since this summer, according to the band chief.
‘We’ll shut this darn country down’
Ontario First Nations believe the Conservative government is ignoring their voices on First Nations education and they are warning of a nation-wide shut-down unless things change.
Anishinabe plan Ontario highway slowdown, brief blockade over education
Anishinabe leaders in Ontario are planning a traffic slowdown and a brief highway blockade for Monday to remind the federal government First Nations communities need to be consulted on any planned reforms to First Nations education, says Garden River band Coun. Darrell Boissoneau.
GG’s wife visits suffering Ontario Ojibway community
The wife of Canada’s Governor General arrived Thursday morning in a remote northern Ontario Ojibway community that has been plagued by drug-fuelled violence.
OPP Aboriginal unit fell under sway of Six Nations in Caledonia: book
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.
On the streets of Fort Hope
An urgent call for help was issued by a First Nations chief in Northern Ontario whose community has been gripped by widespread addiction to prescription drugs.
