Prime Minister asked to help dying children in Tyendinaga
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been asked to help find out why there’s been a spike in childhood leukemia on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
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Third-party management: “Imposed solutions don’t work”
APTN National News Attawapiskat isn’t the only First Nation in Canada under third-party management. A…
Harper meeting with First Nations leaders closer to reality: Duncan
A meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and First Nations leaders is in the works, but it won’t happen before the fall, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said Monday.
Harper may be “hiding an agenda” behind Indian Affairs name change: Layton
Indigenous leaders have reason to suspect a hidden “agenda” behind the Stephen Harper government’s decision to change the name of Indian Affairs and the title of the minister responsible for the department, NDP leader Jack Layton said.
Atleo calls for clarity as Harper government erases ‘Indian’ from federal department
The Stephen Harper government erasing the word “Indian” from the title of the federal department responsible for dealing with Canada’s Indigenous peoples.
U.S. asked weapons firm to twist Canadian arms on missile defence: diplomatic cables
Former U.S. ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci asked senior corporate executives with a major weapons firm to press Stephen Harper, while opposition leader, to back Canadian involvement in the controversial continental missile defence system, according to U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by APTN National News.
Residential school apology rare ‘consensus’ moment during centralized, secretive Harper minority rule: U.S. diplomatic cable
When an “instinctively combative” Stephen Harper reached across party lines to deliver the historic apology to Indian residential school survivors, it marked a rare moment when he attempted “consensus” during a centralized and secretive minority rule, according to a blunt assessment contained in a “secret” U.S. diplomatic cable obtained by APTN National News.
Nutrition North subsidies going to companies, not consumers
APTN National News At a campaign stop in Yellowknife, Stephen Harper promised that Nutrition North…
APTN’s Carson affair investigation, uncut
Meet the reporters who broke the story and how a duct taped box delivered in a gas station parking lot began a chain of events that shook Canada’s political establishment.