While ruling out deploying the army to lift Indigenous blockades restricting freight transport, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today called the blockades “unacceptable and untenable” and said they must come down. “Everyone involved is worried,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa. “Canadians have been patient, our government has been patient. But it has been two weeks and…

Family and friends of Bradley Flett marched through Peguis First Nation in Manitoba Friday in hopes someone will come forward with information about his hit and run death earlier this month. “It’s heartbreaking knowing that there’s an individual out there still walking free,” said Rose Marie Flett, Bradley Flett’s sister. Bradley Flett, 52, died Feb. 1 after he…

B.C.’s premier has categorically put to rest any notion of pulling provincial support for the Coastal GasLink pipeline. “That’s not an option, no,” John Horgan answered when asked point-blank about calls to halt or cancel the natural gas project altogether. It was his shortest response during Thursday’s press conference at the B.C. Legislature as he took question after question about the ongoing tensions…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is asking Parliament to spend an additional $2.1 billion on Indigenous programs and initiatives, above and beyond what MPs already have approved. While $2 billion of the proposed spending for Indigenous services would be new money, supplementary estimates tabled in Parliament show that more than $53 million in net transfers from…

In Tyendinaga, Ont., on May 6, 1990, two Haudenosaunee Confederacy chiefs gathered with others on the shores of the Bay of Quinte to hold a ceremony in the midst of a smouldering crisis in a sister Mohawk community. Ka’nahsohon, who also goes by Kevin Deer, was at that ceremony and believes that now, 30 years…

High school students packed the main hall at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg on Thursday to learn more about Indigenous cultures and why it’s important to have role models. “I think it’s really inspiring knowing that we have our own ways of learning and learning about culture,” said Sophia Bird, a Grade…