Rinelle Harper ready to repeat call for inquiry at roundtable in Ottawa
APTN National News OTTAWA – Rinelle Harper, the 16 year-old girl who survived a brutal…
APTN National News OTTAWA – Rinelle Harper, the 16 year-old girl who survived a brutal…
“It feels good because the spirits of our people are no longer wandering.”
The RCMP closely monitored the movements of an Indigenous environmental activist as it tightened surveillance around possible protests in northern British Columbia targeting the energy firm behind the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, according to “confidential” documents obtained by APTN National News.
Moments after the Senate voted to suspend him, trailed by a mob of television cameras, photographers Sen. Patrick Brazeau strode swiftly from the Red Chamber, out of Centre Block on Parliament Hill and into the passenger’s seat of a waiting white car, his new girlfriend in tow, jumping into the back.
The final word on a proposed open pit gold and copper mine that the Tsilhqot’in British Columbia have vowed to oppose at all cost now rests with Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq.
The Assembly of First Nations is seeking $400,000 from Ottawa to fund a chiefs’ committee on treaties despite demands from prairie chiefs that the organization relinquish the file.
Canada’s spy agency is using national security provisions contained in access to information laws to withhold its files on the emergence of an American Indian Movement chapter in Winnipeg.
Senator Patrick Brazeau, who was kicked out of the Conservative caucus after being charged with assault and sexual assault, claims he’s innocent of falsely claiming his father’s house in Maniwaki, Que., as his primary residence and believes he shouldn’t have to pay any money back.
Algonquin Senator Patrick Brazeau has been told to pay back about $48,000 following an audit into his claimed living expenses.