Mohawk tobacco firm battling provinces goes ‘all in’
Robbie Dickson holds a cigarette and points to a gap between the paper and the white filter.
Robbie Dickson holds a cigarette and points to a gap between the paper and the white filter.
A Saskachewan chief who hid a drunk driving charge weeks before he was elected to the post of leading the province’s biggest First Nations organization is refusing to step down despite growing calls for his resignation.
Former Indian affairs minister Chuck Strahl and officials in his department treated two members of the Okanagan Indian band like “children” by second-guessing their ability to make business decisions, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has found.
Controversy continues to swirl around a Manitoba grand chief’s drunk driving conviction.
A controversial Indian Affairs program accused of giving mainstream financial institutions a “golden brick road” into the on-reserve lending sector has been hit with a major setback after one of seven firms picked to administer government-backed loans decided to pull out.
The grand chief of the biggest First Nations organization in Saskatchewan has pleaded guilty to drinking and driving.
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.
Saskatchewan First Nations are bracing the impact the Human Rights Act once it comes into force on reserves on June. 19.
On Wednesday, a blogger for a Saskatchewan newspaper reposted the Wikileaks hoax about Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan’s imagined diary and things went a little crazy.