Boy’s body missing beneath Red River waters
Volunteer divers in Winnipeg failed to find the body of a six year-old boy beneath the frigid Red River waters.
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Barriere Lake demands traditions respected
Members of Barriere Lake are in Ottawa once again.
Tax watchdog director regrets heated email spat with Winnipeg FNs man
The federal director of a taxpayer watchdog group says he regrets sending a heated email calling a First Nations man in Manitoba “racist” during a flurry of exchanges over the organization’s release of chief and councillor salaries.
Barriere Lake back in Ottawa to continue decades-long struggle
The NDP Monday backed calls to Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan to set up a fact-finding mission to a small Quebec Algonquin community caught in a leadership vacuum since the imposition of an Indian Act band council earlier this year.
Fear of Winnipeg police widespread in FNs community
Before he filed his complaint against the police, Evan Maud was facing heat from the Winnipeg public.
Maud meets with investigators over police starlight tour
Evan Maud told Winnipeg police investigators Saturday morning how two officers from the same force took him on a starlight tour to the outskirts of the city before threatening to Taser him if he didn’t start to run.
US cable shows Colombian Indigenous population under intense pressure
The Embera Katio people traditionally wake before the sun rises and on a Saturday in January of this year a family had gathered to cook breakfast in the western part of Colombia when a bomb fired from a military helicopter exploded.
Vancouver restaurants feed poor X-mas meal
For many people who live on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Christmas is a tough time of year.
Tar sands sucking Athabasca dry
Elders and representatives of two northern Alberta First Nations were in Edmonton to decry low water levels in the Athabasca watershed.
