Remote Ontario community breaks free from diesel dependency
A northern Ontario First Nation is celebrating the connection to the province’s power grid today after an ambitious transmission line through the North extended its reach.
Indigenous Services Canada
New pilot program promises to revolutionize diagnostic healthcare in the remote North, but will Ottawa pay?
A demonstration of how healthcare delivery in the North could be transformed was witnessed Thursday by a gathering of First Nation health directors.
Indigenous friendship centres say they can't handle the costs of climate crisis and urbanization
Friendship centres, which serve the needs of urban Indigenous people, are increasingly important in responding to climate disasters
Should the feds have given millions to a self-identifying Indigenous group?
As millions in federal funding flow into a Labrador group whose claims of Inuit identity have been rejected by Indigenous organizations across Canada, a national Inuit leader worries the Liberal government is putting the rights of Indigenous Peoples at risk.
Nursing shortage crisis in northern remote First Nations is systemic racism: Chief
A chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation is condemning a decade-long nursing staffing shortage in northern and remote communities as “systemic racism.”
Exclusive: National Indigenous Tourism to cut funding for provincial groups
The president of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) says his organization is facing major cuts that risk setting the industry back a decade.
Conservatives stall Indigenous clean water law, minister says
Patty Hajdu says the First Nations Clean Water Act will be “another tool” for nations to curb environmental racism and protect their waters — but that Conservative actions in the House have only obstructed its progress.
Grassy Narrows proves environmental racism is not over
The discovery that pollution from a paper mill is contributing to long-standing mercury poisoning afflicting the nearby First Nation is another example of how widespread and persistent the problem has become, federal MPs say.
Manitoba First Nation sues three levels of government over lack of flood protection
The most recent major flood happened in 2022. It forced more than 2,000 residents to flee and left hundreds of homes damaged or in need of replacement. Some 500 residents are still unable to return, the lawsuit says.
Summer wildfire inferno on the horizon, feds say
Federal officials are sounding the alarm on drought conditions and higher-than-normal temperatures indicating another record-breaking wildfire season.
Conservatives delay government bills, spending as holiday recess draws near
The official Opposition continued to force the delay of government bills and billions in spending on Thursday in an attempt to get the Liberal government to remove the federal carbon-pricing plan from all home heating by the holidays.
Exclusive: Feds face burning questions over ‘upside-down approach’ to climate readiness
Ottawa continues to underinvest in disaster preparedness and mitigation on First Nations despite ballooning recovery costs from the worst wildfire season on record, according to documents shared with Canada’s National Observer.
Women and Indigenous Peoples left ‘out in the cold’ by Ottawa, say critics
NDP members are voting against Ottawa’s fall economic statement to protest gaps in funding for Indigenous Services in the midst of an infrastructure crisis.
Scant investments in wildfire prevention in fall economic update
After Canada’s worst wildfire season on record, Ottawa’s mini-budget is scant on investments to protect First Nations and other communities from a new era of fire.
Act not react: Multiple audits advised feds to help First Nations before wildfires hit
In August, the devastating Bush Creek wildfire in B.C.'s Interior roared its way 21 kilometres into the valley where Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw sits. It destroyed 64 structures, including 34 community homes.