A member of the Ahousaht First Nation on the west coast of Vancouver Island says the decline in bus service in the province is wearing on her. Maryanne Titian, 69, says she and her husband John both have diabetes, and he is also waiting on a kidney transplant while she has suffered mild heart attacks.…

It’s below -30 C, but four Inuvik teens at East Three Secondary School, along with their instructors, are helping get wood chopped and piled up in one of two yellow sleds. As the temperature continues to dip, it’s especially important to get wood to elders in town. “There’s a definite need here. It’s cold outside now,”…

Cecilia De Rose remembers hearing the older generation singing Christmas carols in Secwepemctsin, the language of the Secwépemc people, as a child.  But she didn’t have the opportunity to memorize them like they did because of residential school, where she wasn’t allowed to speak her first language and instead was learning English, French and Latin. “The older…

The number of polling sites on First Nations reserves increased this year by more than 20 per cent over 2015, says Elections Canada. Sixty-nine more reserves had polling stations of their own for the 2019 federal election. The increase came after Elections Canada was caught off-guard by a surge of people registering to cast ballots in their…

Canada’s Indigenous services minister said today there needs to be a review of how RCMP resources are deployed in “sensitive” conflicts over Indigenous land, after a report surfaced saying police were prepared to use snipers on Wet’suwet’en Nation protesters blockading a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C. In late 2018, Wet’suwet’en members set up checkpoints on a remote stretch of forest…

A First Nations chief in Manawan, Que., has decided not to fight the Federal Court of Appeal’s dismissal of his court challenge to the Indian day school settlement agreement, the law firm handling the settlement announced Thursday. That means the processing of compensation claims for thousands of First Nations, Métis and Inuit for harms suffered while attending…