Toronto police have broken up a protest in the city’s west end that disrupted GO train service on the Milton line yesterday. Around 3 a.m. ET,  police began removing demonstrators. Most were immediately released, although three people were arrested, police said in a series of tweets overnight.  The Indigenous land rights protest took place behind…

Elementary school students across Nova Scotia are starting to learn about Mi’kmaw history and culture in the classroom under the newly released Treaty Education curriculum. Jane Meader, a Membertou First Nation teacher and elder, helped write the books and materials for the curriculum. She said it’s about more than just pieces of paper signed between…

Gitxsan hereditary chief Spookw says he expected to be arrested after he made the decision to invite people to re-establish a blockade on the CN rail line that runs through his house group’s territory near New Hazelton, B.C., about 200 km northeast of Prince Rupert.  But he was surprised by the number of Gitxsan and…

A Secwepemc hereditary chief and his daughter gave themselves up for arrest voluntarily Tuesday after the RCMP moved in to end a railway blockade near Chase, B.C., in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs. Chase, B.C., is about 50 km east of Kamloops. Anushka Azadi, a spokesperson for the Secwepemc Sacred Fire, said Hereditary Chief Sawses chose to be voluntarily…

After insisting for years that she did nothing wrong, Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak told her colleagues in the upper house today she now accepts that posting racist letters on her Senate website was “ill-considered” — and she regrets the harm she caused by describing the Indian residential school system in positive terms. Speaking in the…

Demonstrations in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who oppose a pipeline in northern British Columbia are spreading across the country, including two protests in Ontario that have disrupted rail lines. On Monday, Ontario Provincial Police descended on a rail blockade set up more than two weeks earlier by the Tyendinaga Mohawk near Belleville and charged 10…