Innu elders gather to keep knowledge alive
Over 300 Innu from across Quebec and Labrador are heading home.
Mark Blackburn
Before moving to become the APTN News social media producer, Mark was the executive producer for the news in eastern Canada. Before starting with APTN in 2009, Mark worked at CBC Radio and Television in Newfoundland and Labrador and Ottawa.
Canada says sorry for Inuit relocation
Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan says “Canada made a mistake” when Inuit families from Quebec and Nunavut were relocated to the High Arctic in the 1950s.
Toddler’s scalding drowning death accident: lawyer
The woman charged in the drowning death of a 22-month-old foster child believes she should not face criminal prosecution because the incident was an accident, her lawyer says.
BC Coroner investigating death of FN foster child
The B.C. Coroner’s Office is investigating the death of a seven-month old First Nations infant, RCMP said.
FN leaders call on Ottawa to sign declaration
Six months after a promise in the Speech from the Throne and three years after it was adopted, First Nations leaders in Canada continue to call on the Stephen Harper government to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
‘They thought that nobody would care’
A Yukon family has gone to court to quash the findings of a coroner’s inquest into the death of a 43-year-old First Nations man who died in a Whitehorse hospital after spending several hours lying in his own feces, urine and vomit inside an RCMP cell while watched and mocked by officers and guards.
Ottawa failing on prison farm replacement
Ottawa promised to replace shut down prison farms with programs to better help inmates gain job skills. According to the man in charge of overseeing prisons, nothing has been done since the cattle were auctioned off.
B.C. launches Pickton inquiry
The British Columbia provincial government on Thursday announced that a public inquiry would be held into the Robert Pickton investigation and the wider issue of how authorities investigate missing women cases.
Off-reserve, Aboriginal languages survive
Aboriginal languages continue to survive in off-reserve First Nations homes, according to a new national study released Thursday.