It’s the end of November and the early afternoon twilight fades to darkness, but Vicky Orlias doesn’t seem to mind.  The elder stands on the front porch of the band hall in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., but in her mind’s eye, she’s a young girl, out on the land with her family, listening as the…

The Federal Court of Canada has denied the federal government’s motion to pause a human rights tribunal ruling ordering compensation for First Nations children apprehended through the on-reserve child welfare system.  Justice Paul Favel said in his ruling that the federal government could not prove it would suffer “irreparable harm” from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal compensation…

A community patrol group with a presence in several Manitoba communities is expanding to Portage la Prairie with help from the municipality and the province. The province announced Friday it’s providing $31,000 to the RCMP detachment in Portage la Prairie, about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg, to support its partnership with the Bear Clan citizen patrol group. “A program…

Nunavut’s education minister says his department properly consulted partners on Bill 25, the Act to Amend the Education Act and the Inuit Language Protection Act.  David Joanasie was questioned by the standing committee on Bill 25 yesterday, on the last day of public hearings.  “As a department it was our expectation that our partners would…

Housing in every community throughout the Northwest Territories is getting worse.  The 2019 NWT Housing Survey says 42 per cent of all houses in the territory have at least one major problem, up from 20 per cent in the 2016 federal Census.  The CBC compared the results of the 2019 NWT Housing Survey with the…

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett is calling on Sen. Lynn Beyak to remove letters still on her website that support Indigenous assimilation and claim residential schools saved First Nation people from “squalor.” Beyak returned to her Senate role on Sept. 11 following a suspension imposed in May on a recommendation by the Senate ethics committee. She was…