‘When I came in the house, there were Mounties there’
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is in Indian Brook this week.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is in Indian Brook this week.
Lawyers may see their fees reduced if they break the rules as they guide former students of Indian residential schools through the complex legal process designed to provide compensation for serious physical and sexual abuse suffered at the schools.
The Harper government has introduced a bill in the Senate to deal with matrimonial property rights.
RCMP investigators have yet to launch a formal investigation into the activities of Bruce Carson, a former aide to the prime minister, but the file remains open, APTN National News can report.
The residential school experience left thousands of Aboriginal people with emotional and physical scars.
The Mario Benedetti Foundation gave out its first international human rights prize earlier this week.
The Federal Court has ordered the Privy Council Office to either release internal emails between Aboriginal bureaucrats or better explain why the documents should be shrouded beneath the blanket of cabinet secrecy.
In a final letter, written before he died, NDP leader Jack Layton called on Canadians to build a more equal country where love trumped anger and hope trumped fear.
First Nations chiefs in three provinces have struck a crippling blow against a blue-ribbon panel created by the Assembly of First Nations and Ottawa to study on-reserve education and create a template for new legislation.