FSIN concerned about the delay in a national plan to address family violence
On September 15, 2014, the federal government announced a National Action Plan to Address Family Violence and Violent Crimes Against Aboriginal Women and Girls. The…
Politics
Canada uses World Conference to continue indefensible attack on UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples’ organizations and human rights groups are outraged that the federal government used a high level United Nations forum on Indigenous rights as an…
Audrey Poitras re-elected as president of the Métis Nation of Alberta
EDMONTON/CNW/ – The citizens of the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) went to the polls on September 2, 2014 to cast their votes in the 2014 General Election. At 10:45…
NDP pledges to call a National Inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women
On September 19, 2014 NDP Member of Parliament Romeo Saganash delivered a riveting, and emotional speech on the need for a National Inquiry into the…
Historic Buffalo Treaty signed by Tribes and First Nations along U.S. and Canada border
First Nation and Tribal Groups from U.S. and Canada have joined in solidarity to form an alliance to support the restoration of the North American…
Canadians push for a National Inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women
Winnipeg police went into the Red River last month responding to a report by an off-duty police officer who had seen a man struggling to…
Canada’s Premiers and National Aboriginal leaders meet in Charlottetown
August 27, 2014 Charlottetown, PEI: Metis National Council President Clément Chartier joined other National Aboriginal Organization (NAO) Leaders and the Premiers in a call for…
Justin Trudeau on fairness and transparency in Canada’s First Nations
(August 14, 2014) — Increasing the level of transparency and accountability across Canada’s public institutions is both good and necessary. Canadians expect that those given…
Tom Mulcair: NDP would launch national inquiry in its first 100 days in power
OTTAWA – The NDP leader vows that his government would launch a national inquiry into the cases of the 1,200 Indigenous women that have been killed…
What does Ottawa really want when it calls for transparency?
The First Nation’s Transparency Act, which was passed into legislation in November 2011, has been met with varying opinions and a mixture of words that…