As one university hockey player from Garden River First Nation graduates, another from the community will join the same team, continuing the legacy.  Jana Headrick is halfway through her fourth and final year of her undergraduate studies and plays on the University of Toronto’s Varsity Blues women’s hockey team. She is hoping to pursue graduate studies in public health. She’s…

Issues of land, sovereignty and reconciliation have been at the heart of the barricades that went up across Canada after the RCMP conducted raids on Wet’suwet’en territory in early February.   They are issues that have led to solidarity actions across the country before, such as during the Oka Crisis of 1990, but Indigenous youth today are finding…

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has proposed that its peacekeepers head up a temporary Indigenous police force to patrol traditional Wet’suwet’en territory instead of the RCMP. “We are bringing forth a possible solution to address one of the most problematic issues in the Wet’suwet’en situation,” Grand Chief Joe Norton said in a press release. “The key…

The hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en are set to meet for a second day with senior federal and provincial ministers in northwestern B.C. on Friday, as they try to break an impasse in a pipeline dispute that has sparked weeks of protests across the country. Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and B.C. Indigenous Relations Minister…

As tensions between the RCMP and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in northern British Columbia continue to trigger protests across the country, some observers are suggesting the federal government could use an existing policing program to help resolve the impasse. Many Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and their supporters have been at odds with the RCMP since officers arrested protesters…

Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq are poised to sign an agreement that finally defines how a “moderate living fishery” will operate in the province. Membertou Chief Terry Paul, who heads the fisheries portfolio of Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs, says a deal is close. “We’re hoping for something, in the interim anyway, as soon as the…