Canadian First Nations need to push for change: Australian aboriginal leaders – Global News
June 3, 2015 EDMONTON – Australian Aboriginal leaders in Alberta this week say Canadian First Nations need to keep pushing for change even as they celebrate the release of the…
MLAs put Nunavut Tourism budget under the microscope – Nunatsiaq News
Legislative committee scrutinizes budget hike, expenses, travel June 04, 2015 Nunavut Tourism’s budget has increased 70 per cent for this fiscal year — and members of the legislative assembly want…
Some prominent milestones in Canada’s troubled relations with First Nations – 680 News
OTTAWA – Some landmarks in the long and uneasy relationship between Canada and First Nations. June 2, 2015: Truth and Reconciliation Commission issues its final report. It says the survivors…
First Nations series: A landmark court victory for the Xeni Gwet’in – Vancouver Sun
June 3, 2015 Xeni Gwet’in people see land-title win as way to right historic wrongs and move forward for all Tsilhqot’in Roger William knows something about victory through adversity. The…
Chief Calls for a Youth Caucus on TRC Recommendations – Net Newsledger
June 3, 2015 PETERBOUROUGH, ON – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission wraps up its mandate this week in Ottawa. Yesterday, on June 2nd, the TRC formally presented its summary report,…
First Nations get seat at table for mine safety review in BC – The Globe and Mail
The B.C. government is launching a review of the health and safety laws that regulate mining in the province in the wake of last summer’s Mount Polley mine disaster. And,…
Convocation 2015: meet the Faculty of Law’s Shardae Fortier – News@UofT
June 3, 2015 Shardae Fortier’s path to law school was riddled with challenges. On her mother’s side, she’s Ojibwe, part of Canada’s First Nations people – a population that statistically lags…
Pete McMartin: Truth and reconciliation – Now what? – Vancouver Sun
June 3, 2015 It’s about reaching an understanding It was for me anticlimactic, since the stories had been told so many times before. The horrors of the residential schools, and…
First Nations mining group calls for ‘super fund’ to cover tailings-dam disasters – The Province
June 3, 2015 VICTORIA — A mining organization representing B.C. First Nations wants companies to bankroll an emergency fund that will cover the cost of disasters similar to last summer’s…
Ken S. Coates: We must not look to governments to achieve real and … – Opinion-National Post
Ken S. Coates: We must not look to governments to achieve real and lasting reconciliation June 3, 2015 Residential schools have been held up — appropriately – as one of…
