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.
Moose populations are declining in many provinces, with the exception of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton. Wildlife researchers and First Nations say logging, sport hunting and climate change are to blame.
Russ Diabo will advise National Chief RoseAnne Archibald on specific files like AFN restructuring, self-government agreements and Bill C-15, Canada's application of UNDRIP.
British Columbia has asked First Nations if they want old-growth forests set aside from logging, allowing time for long-term planning of conservation and sustainable development, but it has yet to fund the process on a large scale, advocates say.
Open net-pen fish farming on the Pacific coast took a one-two punch after operations closures were announced in both B.C. and Washington state this week.
The federal government is spending 3.5 times more responding to climate emergencies in remote Indigenous communities than preventing them, an auditor general report found.
Before Pope Francis's arrival in Canada last July, federal officials flagged concerns about the level of consultation done with a First Nations community that was set to host him.
An Ontario Provincial Police officer who is the subject of at least three serious complaints by First Nations leaders has not been formally held accountable for her actions or charged with a criminal offence, Canada's National Observer has found.
The Canadian government approached an international commission that helped identify the remains of those killed during 9/11 and the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster to potentially aid its response to the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools.
When a non-Indigenous author discovered her family had an uncomfortable historic connection to a First Nation community, her revelation resulted in the publication of a unique book.