Ring of Fire battle lines lit
A mining company that has put down stakes and set up camp to explore part of the James Bay lowlands is reacting to a blockade set up by one First Nation.
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Blue-ribbon education panel quietly unveiled, draws immediate fire
The members of a promised blue-ribbon panel to study First Nations education have been quietly named and the selection is already drawing fire from a key First Nations chief.
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.
Sandy Bay in mourning
The isolated northern community of Sandy Bay, Sask., is in mourning.
BC RCMP search for missing Nikita Jack
Surrey RCMP investigators are trying to track down a 23-year-old First Nations woman who was last seen this past Thursday after leaving her three-year-old daughter at a relative’s home in Surrey, B.C.
‘This is sabotage by a fascist government’
Holding an umbrella in the rain, Melanie Morrison stood near the concrete steps leading up to the Parliament’s Centre Block were the country’s politicians pass laws and tried not to cry as she talked about her sister, whose bones were found by a construction worker last summer near Montreal.
Manitoba MP enlists famed director’s help
A Manitoba MP is recruiting some Hollywood muscle in her fight to save a refinery in her riding.
Chief warns of Egypt-like ‘crisis’ in U.S. embassy letter
The U.S. should pay closer attention to the deteriorating relationship between First Nations and Ottawa or risk being “blindsided” by an Egypt-like crisis in Canada, a Manitoba chief said in a letter sent to the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
Tobacco battle flares in two more provinces
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.