Justice officials arguing against own government in Jordan's Principle court appeal
Federal department of Justice lawyers who are appealing a Federal Court ruling on Jordan’s Principle will find themselves arguing against their own government.
Federal department of Justice lawyers who are appealing a Federal Court ruling on Jordan’s Principle will find themselves arguing against their own government.
The federal government is appealing a court decision that ordered Ottawa to help pay for the care of a severely disabled teenager on the Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia.
The grand chief for the Mohawk community at the heart of the Oka crisis says Ottawa’s lead negotiator threatened to shut down land claim negotiations over plans to dissolve Kanesatake’s band council.
Despite holding evidence to the contrary within its archival vaults, the federal government refuses to admit it purposely destroyed Indian residential school documents fearing it could face additional legal action, internal government records show.
For the next two weeks Northern art, music, food and dance will take centre stage in venues across Ottawa.
A group from Manitoba going by the title, Youth for Lakes, are walking across the country.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt is scheduled to meet with hunger-striking Manitoba Elder Raymond Robinson on Friday in Ottawa.
Onion Lake Cree Nation is threatening legal action against the federal department of Aboriginal Affairs over new terms included in the funding agreement between Ottawa and First Nations.
-A January walk that began in Quebec’s northernmost Cree community with a snow machine breaking trail ended 1,600 kilometres later with a crowd of people forming a path on Parliament Hill to make way for a group of Cree youth who had captured the attention of a nation.