Teresa Wright

Reporter for The Canadian Press

198 Articles

P.E.I. signs on to Liberals' national child-care program

Prince Edward Island has become the third province to sign on to the federal government's national child-care program, allowing it to receive about $120 million from Ottawa for $10-dollar-a-day child-care spots by the end of 2024.

RoseAnne Archibald of Ontario will be the first woman to serve as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

RoseAnne Archibald becomes first woman to lead Assembly of First Nations

RoseAnne Archibald of the Taykwa Tagamou Nation in Ontario has become the first woman to serve as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

AFN to choose new chief and honour children who perished in residential schools

First Nations chiefs and delegates will gather virtually this week to discuss their communities’ priorities and plans for moving forward — even as they also reflect on a past brought into harsher light with the recent discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential schools.

Disturbing truths mark this year's Indigenous Peoples Day

As many settler Canadians gain greater awareness of the dark and disturbing truths about the country's mistreatment of Indigenous populations, political leaders struck conciliatory tones in recognizing National Indigenous People's Day on Monday, June 21, 2021.

Conservative Sen. Claude Carignan leaves the Senate Chamber on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 19, 2018. File photo by The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

Senate clears UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples bill

A landmark piece of Liberal legislation aimed at harmonizing Canada's laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has passed third reading in the Senate, paving the way for the bill to be enshrined into law before a possible federal election.

Chief commissioner Marion Buller, front left to right, commissioners Brian Eyolfson, Qajaq Robinson and Michele Audette get ready to prepare the final report to give to the government on June 3, 2019. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Feds release preliminary followup plan to MMIWG report

The plan released Thursday — the second anniversary of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls' final report — was branded as the long-promised "national action plan." However, the document is something of a preliminary framework that some Indigenous leaders said fell short of the urgent action needed.