A parliamentary committee says resource companies should be held "accountable" for the effect their projects have on the safety of Indigenous women and girls.
Less than two per cent of a $742-million fund allocated by the feds to prevent violence against Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited peoples has been spent.
An ongoing pattern of abuse and threats directed at female journalists and female journalists of colour has reached such a crescendo, it's drawing condemnation from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and an NDP MP.
At the tail end of his “pilgrimage of penance” last week, Pope Francis recognized that what happened at Canada’s residential schools was genocide. It’s high time Parliament does the same, says NDP MP Leah Gazan.
A New Democrat member of Parliament said on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, she hopes all of her colleagues will recognize the residential schools system as genocide, now that Pope Francis has used the term.
The federal government must ensure $2.2 billion earmarked to address violence against Indigenous women and girls goes to organizations in remote areas, not just major cities, witnesses told the Standing Committee on the Status of Women on Friday.
Three federal New Democrat MPs have signed a petition denouncing British Columbia's NDP government for its handling of an Indigenous protest at a pipeline work site and voicing distress at the federal NDP's response.
The folks behind the push to make ecocide a crime say a global law would create real consequences for those who cause severe environmental harm, and this young Canadian is making their case ahead of the COP26 global climate conference next month.
