Matthew Wildcat, director of Indigenous governance at the University of Alberta, spoke with CBC’s Edmonton AM on Friday. He explained how Indigenous treaty rights and the duty to consult First Nations ...
In a decision described as "historic," a Manitoba judge has found the governments of Manitoba and Canada breached First Nations' rights to self-governance around child welfare.
Now the neighbourhood is the centre of a fight over Indigenous rights that has property holders across British Columbia ...
As the global mining industry gathered in Toronto for the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada Convention, ...
The Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation alleges the education funding formula implemented by the federal government in 2019 substantially underfunds on-reserve schools.
An independent Alberta would drive international borders through the heart of a northern First Nation’s territory and violate treaty rights, lawyers argued on the second day of hearings into the ...
After a landmark B.C. Court of Appeal decision last December that made the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples enforceable in provincial law, First Nations have launched suits using the ...
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. Nearly two decades after the United Nations adopted a landmark declaration on Indigenous rights, advocates say countries still aren’t ...
The First Nations Leadership Council is speaking out against the B.C. government’s proposal to suspend key provisions of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), calling it a ...