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FSIN to ask feds for $1.8B to fund child welfare bill
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations plans to call on Ottawa for roughly $1.8 billion in funding for new legislation that would see child welfare jurisdiction handed back to First Nations ac...
Jan 10, 2020
Alberta fires back at UN committee for criticism of energy megaprojects
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the United Nations is an unelected, unaccountable body that has no business criticizing Canada's energy megaprojects. Sonya Savage, in a statement, says that ...
Jan 08, 2020 Alberta Minister of Energy Sonya Savage. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
Indigenous opposition to pipeline shouldn’t outweigh others: Provinces
VANCOUVER - The governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan are urging the Federal Court of Appeal to defer to cabinet's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline because they say Indigenous opposition shou...
Dec 19, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Court to hear First Nations’ challenge of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
VANCOUVER - Four British Columbia Indigenous groups are set to argue in the Federal Court of Appeal that the Canadian government failed to consult adequately with them before its latest approval of th...
Dec 16, 2019
Firefighting expert says First Nations need more resources
A firefighting specialist believes more needs to be done to prevent fires on First Nations. Richard Kent, the commissioner of emergency and protective services for the Prince Albert Grand Council, poi...
Dec 06, 2019
Saskatchewan chief disappointed at lack of long-term help to stop suicides
REGINA - The chief of a northern Saskatchewan First Nation says he is disappointed at the lack of long-term help from the provincial and federal governments to deal with what he says is a suicide cris...
Nov 28, 2019 Chief Ron Mitsuing of the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation voices his concerns about a suicide crisis in his community at the Legislative Building in Regina on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor
FSIN vice-chief calls for criminalization of coerced sterilization
A vice-chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) wants to see more action taken to support Indigenous women who allege doctors and nurses pressured them to consent to being steril...
Nov 26, 2019 A woman who alleges she was sterilized against her will speaks during a rally in front of the Saskatchewan legislative building on Nov. 26, 2019. (Evan Radford/980 CJME)
First Nations policing symposium highlights importance of community, police relationships
Relationship-building between officers and communities was a hot topic at the First Nations Policing and Justice Symposium in Saskatoon. The policing panel session featured First Nations police chiefs...
Nov 06, 2019
Separating from Canada not easy, but possible: U of S prof
Since the federal election on Monday, there has been more talk of western alienation and the idea of separation. A group based out of Alberta that espouses the idea of "Wexit" (western exit) feels the...
Oct 23, 2019
Feds fight ruling on compensation for failures in First Nations child services
OTTAWA - First Nations chiefs are expressing outrage and disappointment at the federal government's decision to appeal a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to pay billions of dollar...
Oct 04, 2019
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