Canada begins defence at human rights tribunal over on-reserve funding of child services
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Prentice’s arrival won’t soften Enbridge pipeline opposition: Coastal First Nations
Former Aboriginal affairs minister Jim Prentice will be leading Enbridge Inc.’s charm offensive to convince recalcitrant First Nations to support the controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline project.
Aboriginal Affairs slashes specific claims research budget triggering Oka-repeat warnings
The federal Aboriginal Affairs department cut its specific claims research budget as part of on-going government-wide belt-tightening in a move that one senior British Columbia chief says is contributing to creating the same environment that produced the 1990 Oka crisis.
Aboriginal Affairs ‘paternalistic, self-serving’ in its use of ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ offers
The Specific Claims Tribunal blasted a branch of Aboriginal Affairs for being “paternalistic, self-serving, arbitrary and disrespectful” in a recent ruling impacting the department’s “take-it-or-leave-it” gambit to settle historical claims with First Nations.
'It was about cutting the artery of culture'
John Milloy continued his testimony at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nation child funding.
Human rights tribunal resumes hearings on First Nations child and family services funding
The human rights case against the federal government resumed this week with a history lesson on Indian Residential Schools.
Poisonous atmosphere inside Aboriginal Affairs branch delaying settlement of treaty-related claims: letter
First Nation claims seeking redress from Ottawa over treaty-related wrongs face months-long delays over “insignificant issues,” according an anonymous letter to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt penned by bureaucrats working in the departmental branch that handles the files.
First Nation agency takes the stand at human rights tribunal
A human rights case against the federal government is still unfolding in Ottawa.
Monitoring of Blackstock's social media sites still going on
Earlier this year Canada’s privacy commissioner ordered the Departments of Justice and Aboriginal Affairs to stop monitoring Cindy Blackstock’s social media sites.