Monuments unveiled for High Arctic exiles
They are known as the High Arctic exiles. Now their sacrifice is being marked in the most Inuit way possible–through art.
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.
Ontario clashes with northern FN leaders
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says opposition from First Nations leaders won’t stop his government from pushing ahead with legislation to define which northern parts of the province can’t be mined.
Tar sands clean-up fund billions in hole: study
The Alberta government’s special fund for cleaning orphaned tar sand sites is facing a multi-billion dollar shortfall, according to a new study.
Innu elders gather to keep knowledge alive
Over 300 Innu from across Quebec and Labrador are heading home.
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.