TRC given one year extension to complete mandate: Valcourt
The Harper government has given the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a one-year extension, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said Thursday.
The Harper government has given the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a one-year extension, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said Thursday.
Leaving home for a better education is not uncommon.
What is uncommon is when kids as young as thirteen have to do it.
John Milloy continued his testimony at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nation child funding.
The UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples called on the Harper government to reverse course on three major fronts in order to avoid a “rocky road” in its relationship with the country’s First Nation population.
Survivor statements are at the heart of the TRC event.
Conservative Senator Marjory LeBreton needs to clarify what she meant when she said that embattled Algonquin Senator Patrick Brazeau was “an experiment gone wrong” given recent revelations the Canadian government experimented on First Nation people during the Indian residential school era, according to a Liberal First Nation Senator.
The work Calgary lawyer David Blott did with Indian Residential School survivors is being reviewed by his peers.
A Manitoba First Nation organization is slamming the Canadian Museum of Human Rights for refusing to use the term “genocide” in the title of an exhibit on Canada’s policies toward Indigenous people over the past century.
The Harper government has hit the Assembly of First Nations with an about $1.7 million cut in a surprise move that is also expected to impact 46 other First Nation organizations.