Yellowknife looking to draw drinking water from bay near toxic mine
When you turn on the taps in Yellowknife, you get clean, fresh water.
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Federal government cuts water out of food program for northern communities
Nutrition North is the food subsidy program that replaced food mail, but one stable of life was not included.
Layton slams Harper for ignoring FNs issues
NDP Leader Jack Layton blasted Prime Minister Stephen Harper for failing to address First Nations water, housing and education issues in the Conservative’s last, dead-on-arrival, federal budget.
APTN’s Carson affair investigation, uncut
Meet the reporters who broke the story and how a duct taped box delivered in a gas station parking lot began a chain of events that shook Canada’s political establishment.
Chiefs would rather fight than work with Ottawa: Duncan
Senators grilled the Indian Affairs Minister Monday over his government’s controversial water bill.
Indian Affairs defends bottled water cut to Ontario FN
Indian Affairs is defending its decision to limit bottled water shipments to an Ontario First Nation that has been without a clean water supply source since the summer.
Indian Affairs cuts water shipments to Ontario FN
Indian Affairs is forcing the reduction of bottled water shipments to a northern Ontario First Nations that has been without a clean water supply source since this summer, according to the band chief.
Water woes continue for Manitoba FNs
The federal government has said that its endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples shows its support for the rights of Canada’s Aboriginal people. But a quick glance across the country shows those rights are often being ignored.