As one woman’s journey to register for status under the Indian Act comes to a head, a lawsuit aims to make Canada pay for the damage the legislation may have caused.
Saskatchewan’s justice minister, while promoting a bill she touts as giving the province more autonomy, says Ottawa’s actions have a larger effect on investor confidence than pushback on the legislation from Indigenous and environmental groups.
Since Grey Owl a century ago, people of European descent have falsely claimed to be Indigenous for personal gain or a sense of absolution, but one Métis legal expert says it would take a psychiatrist to try to fully answer, "why?"
Canada struggles with a legacy of colonial conservation policies that have disregarded Indigenous rights and sovereignty and damaged relationships with Indigenous communities.
A landmark Supreme Court case recognizes Indigenous Peoples hold a unique property right to their land. A quarter-century later, a countrywide battle on enforcing that decision continues, writes Shiri Pasternak.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith described the legislation during a third and final reading of the bill as a resetting of the relationship with Trudeau and the federal government
First Nations voiced concern the Alberta and Saskatchewan sovereignty acts could override their treaty relationships with the Crown, which remain federal obligations.
The Alberta legislature has passed Premier Danielle Smith’s controversial sovereignty act but not before first stripping out the provision that granted Smith’s cabinet the power to bypass the legislature and rewrite laws as it saw fit.
