reconciliation

“My girls' lives are going to be so different because of all this opportunity." Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Crystal Smith looks forward as she endures severe personal criticism over her community's participation in mutual benefit agreements with the Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada project to pipe and liquefy natural gas for export to Asian markets from the Northwest Pacific coast.

New Canadians will soon swear to honour the rights of Indigenous Peoples if a proposed legislative change is adopted.

Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould told an Indigenous justice forum that she fears the federal Liberal government from which she was recently ousted has “fallen back” on recognizing Indigenous rights and that the pace of judicial reform is “not fast enough or as well-coordinated as it could be."

Fed up with task forces and working groups discussing the potential for changing the name of the university men’s sports teams to something less offensive than “Redmen,” Tomas Jirousek organized a campaign and demonstration to #ChangetheName.

New Democratic Party MPs urge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to "show that his promises to Indigenous people aren’t empty" by addressing mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows.

Some in the audience, who paid $1,500 each in order to attend the event, cheered the prime minister's dismissive remark, which was captured by cellphone cameras and circulated on social media. Trudeau showed more contrition when asked about the confrontation Thursday.

Canada’s federal government plans to spend $4.5 billion over five years to improve the living conditions of Indigenous communities and advance self-determination and self-governance, as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government seeks to renew its claim as an honest broker and trusted partner in reconciliation efforts.

The head of the RCMP in Manitoba says providing an eagle feather to people swearing oaths is a positive step toward reconciliation with Indigenous communities.

First Nations leaders from across British Columbia traveled to Smithers for a historic gathering Wednesday morning, in a powerful show of support for the Wet'suwet'en Nation and all those standing up to defend Indigenous governance systems, human rights, and the well-being of lands and waters for all people in generations to come. 

An Ontario First Nation suffering from generations of mercury poisoning still needs a treatment centre and help for children harmed by the toxic metal, its chief said on Wednesday, December 5, 2018.

Jatinder Singh never imagined that a street sign in Victoria's Cook Street village would take him on a journey that stretched back to 1864.

Last month, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the Trudeau government's approval of the Trans Mountain expansion. National Observer's Mike Ruffolo explains the primary justifications for that decision.

Chief Bobby Cameron, with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN), said a closed−door meeting with the prime minister last week was productive, but the frustration depicted in the video is real.

On Wednesday, August 29, 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau painstakingly explained to students in Kapuskasing, Ont., how the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is a central pillar of his government's agenda.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has removed “climate change” from the name of a powerful committee of ministers, and launched another cabinet body devoted to reconciliation.