Trudeau launches Canada into federal election scheduled for Sept. 20
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling a federal election that will go hand in hand…
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Former MMIWG commissioner Michèle Audette named to Canada’s Senate
Michèle Audette, the former commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women…
‘Our climate allows our society to be possible’: Governor General Mary Simon talks reconciliation, environment at installation
‘My view is that reconciliation is a way of life and requires work every day. Reconciliation is getting to know one another,’ said Simon at her installment.
‘No guarantees’ of papal apology for residential schools after Vatican trip: AFN
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says there are no guarantees an Indigenous…
Parliamentary committee gives Liberals until March 2022 to come up with drinking water plan
Canada’s Public Accounts committee is recommending that the federal government deliver to it a plan…
Senate passes bill to implement United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Liberal legislation that is supposed to harmonize Canada’s laws with the United Nations Declaration…
AFN lawyer rips Ottawa’s ‘callous’ and ‘heartless’ arguments on day two of judicial reviews
Caring Society says Canada’s pledge to compensate through class action is a ‘divide and conquer’ approach the court should reject
6 years after TRC call to action, Indigenous Peoples to use traditional names on government ID
Government also announces Indigenous language commissioner and directors.
‘A shameful strategy aimed at saving money’: Feds panned for attacking human rights tribunal compensation order as appeals begin
‘The decision here is so deeply problematic,’ says Ottawa counsel Robert Frater, ‘it would be better to start again with another tribunal’ on compensation question