Grand Council Treaty 3 Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh says Senator Lynn Beyak’s apology for racist behavior is not accepted. Beyak announced Tuesday in the upper chamber that she now realizes she was wrong to post racist letters on her senate website and apologized unreservedly for her actions.  However Kavanaugh said in a statement issued Thursday morning…

The Passamaquoddy people in New Brunswick are getting closer to gaining formal recognition as a First Nation from the federal and provincial governments. The First Nation group – now known as the Peskotomuhkati – is two years into talks with negotiators from Ottawa and Fredericton. A key issue is where Peskotomuhkati people on the U.S.…

With little fanfare, the Senate of Canada voted today to suspend Sen. Lynn Beyak for the remainder of this parliamentary session because she failed to complete the anti-racism training she was directed to undergo the last time she was temporarily kicked out of the Red Chamber. The Senate agreed, on a voice vote, to adopt…

This year’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards will be a star-studded affair, with internationally renowned actors Ryan Reynolds, Catherine O’Hara and Tantoo Cardinal among the laureates. Vancouver-born Reynolds, whose big-screen credits include The Proposal, Green Lantern and Deadpool, will receive the National Arts Centre Award, which recognizes work by an artist or company in the past performance…

The ball is now in the RCMP’s court after a police watchdog agency has completed its probe into how the Mounties investigated the August 2016 shooting of Colten Boushie, and made recommendations to the police force. Boushie, a 22-year-old from Red Pheasant Cree Nation, was shot and killed during an altercation with Biggar, Sask.-area farmer Gerald Stanley in August…

When Xavier Sack walks through the doors of his high school in Milford Station, N.S., he often feels like he has a target on his back. The 16-year-old boy from the Sipekneꞌkatik First Nation said he and other Indigenous students at Hants East Rural High feel they are discriminated against when it comes to how they…