Senate opens books on spending
The Senate of Canada has partially opened its books.
Ottawa
New environment minister in mini cabinet shuffle
Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled a new environment minister during a mini cabinet shuffle Tuesday, naming former minister of state for foreign affairs Peter Kent to the post.
Ottawa continues to fail First Nations: Auditor General
Canada’s auditor general called for major changes to the relationship between First Nations, Ottawa and provincial governments to break the persistent and growing gap between quality of life on reserves and the rest of the country.
Barriere Lake back in Ottawa to continue decades-long struggle
The NDP Monday backed calls to Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan to set up a fact-finding mission to a small Quebec Algonquin community caught in a leadership vacuum since the imposition of an Indian Act band council earlier this year.
Cash-strapped Nunavut needs cut of own resources: premier
Nunavut faces huge challenges with high prices, a housing crisis and a host of social problems.
Canada’s Third World brought to the screen
A powerful documentary of Canada’s Third World is taking Ottawa by storm.
‘We’ll shut this darn country down’
Ontario First Nations believe the Conservative government is ignoring their voices on First Nations education and they are warning of a nation-wide shut-down unless things change.
Native Women’s Association felt “betrayed” by Conservative government
The Native Women’s Association of Canada felt “betrayed” by the Conservative government’s announcement on missing and murdered Aboriginal women, APTN National News has been told.
Moon setting on Sisters in Spirit?
The Conservative government is opposing the use of the name Sisters in Spirit and any work on a groundbreaking database on murdered and missing Aboriginal women cases if the Native Women’s Association of Canada expects to receive any funding for new projects on the issue, sources say.