Atleo faces questions over Harper government’s FN education bill
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo was in the Yukon this week.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo was in the Yukon this week.
InFocus sharpens its lens on a new bill for First Nation education and overhauls to immigration.
The federal government is offering little for education in the 2014-2015 federal budget, but has dangled a $1.9 billion carrot to get First Nations chiefs to support proposed legislation to govern the operation of on-reserve schools.
The proposed First Nation education bill partly unveiled this past Friday will still retain the “assimilating and paternalistic nature” of its previous incarnation, according to a Quebec First Nation education organization.
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The Saskatchewan government is trying to make up some of the shortfall in funding for Aboriginal education.
New work by a stained glass artist will honour a young Cree activist who died in 2010.
Shannen Koostachin fought for a new school to be built on her remote First Nation in northern Ontario.
Koostachin was killed in a car accident at age 15.
Protests were held in several locations across the country expressing opposition to the federal government’s proposed First Nations Education Act.
Chiefs in Ontario have come out united against the legislation.