The Manitoba government will be joining an indigenous-led committee tasked with determining whether it’s possible to recover the remains of two First Nations women believed to be in a landfill outside of Winnipeg. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is leading the group, which also includes outside experts and Winnipeg police. The committee is to put…

A Melbourne council led by the left-wing Greens Party will cease holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day on Jan. 26 and instead host a “day of mourning” event for Indigenous Australians starting in 2023. The Merri-bek council in Melbourne’s north will be the third council in the city after two other inner-north Greens-led councils, Yarra…

Parks Canada officials are trying to determine what’s next for a herd of plains bison in Banff National Park after a draft report shows its reintroduction in the park’s backcountry has been successful. The report on a five-year project, published online earlier this week, says the bison herd in the national park in Alberta has…

British Columbia’s incoming premier David Eby has been asked by the province’s lieutenant-governor to begin the process of forming government in a step toward transitioning into his new role. However, Eby will remain premier-designate until he is officially sworn in as premier at a date that has yet to be announced. Eby told a news…

A First Nation of fewer than 300 people in Yukon’s north has used a law it created during the COVID-19 pandemic to bar a convicted sex offender from being sent to its community. The Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Old Crow issued a declaration under its Community Emergency Act banning Christopher Schafer from the fly-in…

The Mi’kmaw language has been officially recognized as the original language of Nova Scotia, as Premier Tim Houston joined 13 chiefs in an official proclamation of the Mi’kmaw Language Act on July 17. “Today was an opportunity to gather in community and celebrate the partnership with Mi’kmaq who co-developed this legislation,” Houston said in a statement on July 17….

The body of a missing 5-year-old Saskatchewan boy has been found after several months of searching, police say. Carrot River RCMP said that on July 9 they received a report that Frank Young of the Red Earth Cree Nation was found deceased in a river in the Cree community near the location where the boy…

Ottawa has signed a $20 billion final settlement agreement to compensate First Nations children and families after a tribunal ruled that it has underfunded child welfare payments on reserves. In January, the federal government, the Assembly of First Nations, and plaintiffs in two class−action lawsuits reached an agreement-in-principle, in which the government committed to compensate…

Commentary I recently read an article on an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) web page with the headline “Prime Minister Albanese’s commitment to Uluru statement gives First Nations communities hope.” Having read the Uluru statement several times, I ask myself, “hope for what?” Might it be hope that all Aboriginal people have ready access to the…

Commentary I recently read an article on an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) web page with the headline “Prime Minister Albanese’s commitment to Uluru statement gives First Nations communities hope.” Having read the Uluru statement several times, I ask myself, “hope for what?” Might it be hope that all Aboriginal people have ready access to the…