The federal government is backing away from setting a timeline to introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to see it this spring.
The federal Liberal government is committing $8.7 million to hold more consultations on Indigenous resource sharing in a budget that offers relatively little new spending on its reconciliation agenda.
It will take between 58 and 114 years to fix housing in First Nations communities at the current rate the federal government is investing, the NDP says.
Alberta's justice minister says provincial prosecutors are to take over the handling of charges under the federal Firearms Act starting in the new year.
First Nations voiced concern the Alberta and Saskatchewan sovereignty acts could override their treaty relationships with the Crown, which remain federal obligations.
Indigenous leaders from across Ontario called on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, for the repeal of a new housing bill they said was passed without properly consulting First Nations and could put their communities at risk.
Calls from the daughters of a slain Indigenous woman to bring her remains home from a landfill that police in Winnipeg won't search turned into a rallying cry on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, to end the violence against their women and girls.
The Assembly of First Nations voted to press Canada on immediately sending promised funds to survivors of the child-welfare system and agreed to return to the negotiating table on system reforms and additional compensation.
Murray Sinclair, a former senator and commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will help the Assembly of First Nations with conflict resolution in 2023, national chief RoseAnne Archibald said on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.