Crown owes duties to First Nations for lack of access to safe drinking water, says Federal Court – MLT Aikins
December 19, 2025 On December 5, 2025, the Federal Court released its decision in Shamattawa First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 FC 1927 (Shamattawa). The decision represents important new…
Musqueam chief says talks could be way out of Cowichan Aboriginal title dispute – Canada’s National Observer
December 19, 2025 The chief of the Musqueam Indian Band says the nation is ready to go to the Supreme Court of Canada as it fights the landmark Cowichan Tribes…
First Nations’ Chiefs call on Ottawa to withdraw from pipeline deal with Alberta – CityNews
December 19, 2025 At the beginning of December, First Nations chiefs from across the country, including leaders from Quebec, met in Ottawa with Prime Minister Mark Carney. During the gathering,…
InFocus: A year in review of APTN’s top headlines of 2025 – APTN News
Dec 19, 2025 On this episode of APTN News InFocus, Karyn Pugliese, APTN’s senior online reporter and host of Nation to Nation, and Dennis Ward, host of APTN National News…
Feds fund clean energy push for isolated Inuit in Labrador – Canada’s National Observer
December 19, 2025 In remote Inuit communities along Labrador’s northern coast, Ottawa is pushing renewable projects forward where power is currently generated primarily by diesel. The federal government recently announced…
Counterpoint: Canada has a duty to make up for the historical dispossession of Indigenous people – National Post
Dec 19, 2025 Kelly LaRocca: Canada was not taken in a single act but through cumulative policies that we now have the responsibility to correct If Canadians want to understand…
World’s biggest carbon capture project could ‘essentially drain Alberta’, experts warn – Canada’s National Observer
December 18, 2025 The world’s largest carbon capture and storage complex planned for northern Alberta could use most of the surplus water in the giant Cold Lake-Beaver River basin, potentially…
Ford sets criteria for ‘special economic zones’ that fast-track projects – Indigenous Watchdog
December 18, 2025 Canada’s National Observer: Months after being introduced under Bill 5, the Ford government has finally releasedthe rules for the “special economic zones” that designate where projects deemed “strategically…
UNDRIP is the law in British Columbia today and, we expect, tomorrow as well – MLT Aikins
December 18, 2025 On December 5, 2025, the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) made its decision in Gitxaała v. British Columbia, 2025 BCCA 430 (Gitxaała), ruling that the Declaration…
Pigeon Lake resident wins landmark forensic audit – Pipestone Flyer
December 18, 2025 Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News Hans McCarthy, grandson of the late Frog Lake Chief Lawrence Francis Quinney, has achieved a landmark court victory…
