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An agreement struck in 2017 between Indigenous Services Canada and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation on faster funding for suicide prevention projects is “making a huge impact,” says NAN Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler.

Good morning, These are the top stories: The death of an Indigenous teen and the state of Canada’s child welfare system Devon Freeman’s death by suicide at 16 years old is a “horrifying” national tragedy symbolic of the “staggering level of negligence that children that end up in the system …

A First Nations man’s claims that he was racially profiled at a Winnipeg Superstore are being backed up by a former security guard who says three locations he has worked at routinely flag Indigenous shoppers as suspicious. 

An agreement struck in 2017 between Indigenous Services Canada and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation on faster funding for suicide prevention projects is “making a huge impact,” says NAN Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler.

Jody Wilson-Raybould is refusing to vacate the entire suite of Parliament Hill offices she was assigned as a cabinet minister, despite the fact that she is now an Independent MP and is no longer entitled to the space. Wilson-Raybould and her small staff currently occupy a series of six offices …

Nova Scotia First Mi'kmaw MP speaks his language in House of Commons Jaime Battiste, the Liberal MP for the Cape Breton riding of Sydney-Victoria, used his first statement to ask about Indigenous languages. Social Sharing Liberal Jaime Battiste asked about support for Indigenous languages CBC News · Posted: Dec 12, …

Montreal·Video 'I ran for my life': Woman forced into sex trade works with police to help others at risk It's before dawn on a wintry Sunday, and Kyra is busy preparing for a morning riding session at a horse stable on Montreal's South Shore. When she is anxious about her past …

Written by Peter Brady and Claire Seaborn, McCarthy Tétrault On December 6, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) found in R v Resolute FP Canada Inc., 2019 SCC 60 (“Resolute”) that two forest-product companies, Resolute and Weyerhaeuser, are on the hook to pay for remedial work at a waste site in Northwestern …

A Northern Ontario prospector and a champion of Indigenous participation in mineral development are among the 2020 recipients of awards being handed out by Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). PDAC announced the six recipients of its 2020 awards on Dec. 10. Among them are Hans Matthews, a geologist …

The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a court challenge to a nationwide class settlement to compensate thousands of First Nations, Métis and Inuit for harms suffered while attending federally operated Indian day schools.