Layton slams Harper for ignoring FNs issues
NDP Leader Jack Layton blasted Prime Minister Stephen Harper for failing to address First Nations water, housing and education issues in the Conservative’s last, dead-on-arrival, federal budget.
NDP Leader Jack Layton blasted Prime Minister Stephen Harper for failing to address First Nations water, housing and education issues in the Conservative’s last, dead-on-arrival, federal budget.
Days before Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo announced in Winnipeg he would be pushing to abolish the Indian Act, he received a telephone call from Bruce Carson, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former aide and friend.
The auditor of Canada’s biggest city released a report Monday that took Toronto’s Community Housing Corporation to task saying it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars unethically.
Authorities in British Columbia and Saskatchewan have recently seized thousands of cigarettes shipped by a Mohawk tobacco company in Kahnawake, Que., aiming to establish a reserve-based distribution network throughout the Western provinces, APTN National News has learned.
Canada’s auditor general called for major changes to the relationship between First Nations, Ottawa and provincial governments to break the persistent and growing gap between quality of life on reserves and the rest of the country.
Nunavut faces huge challenges with high prices, a housing crisis and a host of social problems.
Nunavut legislators are demanding a public inquiry into the territory’s housing corporation.
A river of red tents flowed to Parliament Hill Tuesday as part of a national campaign calling for affordable housing.
Jurisdictional red tape is putting pressure on housing in one northern B.C. community that sits along the provincial boundary with the Yukon.