AFN seeking $400,000 from Ottawa for chiefs' committee on treaties
The Assembly of First Nations is seeking $400,000 from Ottawa to fund a chiefs’ committee on treaties despite demands from prairie chiefs that the organization relinquish the file.
The Assembly of First Nations is seeking $400,000 from Ottawa to fund a chiefs’ committee on treaties despite demands from prairie chiefs that the organization relinquish the file.
James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples will now visit Canada from Oct. 7 to 15.
Several top federal officials are planning to meet with senior First Nations leaders in British Columbia later this month in an attempt to break an impasse over planned major pipeline projects facing resistance from Indigenous communities in the province, according to a letter obtained by APTN National News.
Lawyers have wrapped up two weeks of testimony at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in Ottawa.
The term “redskin” is no different than the N-word says an Ottawa man who has filed a human rights complaint to get a local football team to change its name.
A former aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper facing an influence peddling charge linked to a plan to sell water filtration systems to First Nation reserves is facing surgery for a suspected cancer growth in his lung, forcing the postponement of his July 22 trial date.
After much stalling, Ottawa finally gave the go-ahead for a UN official who monitors the treatment Indigenous peoples to visit Canada.
A final devolution agreement for the Northwest Territories was signed Tuesday.
Last Wednesday, a third land-claim agreement negotiated under the British Columbia treaty process became law.