FAS offenders should not go to jail: activists
Advocates are calling on the federal government to look for solutions to keep FAS offenders out of jail.
Advocates are calling on the federal government to look for solutions to keep FAS offenders out of jail.
A northern Ontario First Nations chief says the judge who sentenced him and five band councillors to jail time should be removed from a land claims tribunal unveiled in a “historic announcement” by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2007.
Holding large portrait photographs, the families of missing and murdered First Nations, Metis and Inuit women called out to the rest of the country to help preserve the memories of their loved ones and join their fight for justice.
Hundreds of First Nation communities are located within Canada’s Prairie grain belt yet few get…
Hundreds of First Nation communities are located within Canada’s Prairie grain belt yet few get…
Hundreds of First Nation communities are located within Canada’s Prairie grain belt yet few get…
The federal government is still examining “how to best formalize” its endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, but appears to stand by its position outlined during debates last week at the UN Human Rights Council that collective rights to not equate to human rights.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has over the past 15 years consistently raised objections to Taskeo Mine Inc’s controversial Prosperity gold and copper project in British Columbia’s interior, documents provided to APTN National News show.
An elite British Columbia private school is facing a human rights complaint from an Indian residential school survivor who alleges the institution did little after she faced a racist barrage from a manager who said “all Indians are dirty filthy pigs.”