Ghislain Picard

Quebec is appealing a recent court ruling that the province must consult First Nations before granting mining claims; First Nations and environmental law groups say this choise to prolong litigation is a step backwards.

On Wednesday, the Assembly of First Nations released its National Climate Strategy detailing a First Nations lens on the climate crisis that is more focused on language and cultural revitalization and the reciprocal relationship with the natural world.

Federal officials worried long-promised legislation declaring First Nations policing an essential service was being delayed by Assembly of First Nations hesitations about the bill, newly released internal documents show.

The federal government is backing away from setting a timeline to introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to see it this spring.

First Nations in northern Quebec are calling on the province and the federal government for more funding for Indigenous police forces, following an appeals court decision in favour of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan First Nation on the issue.

The governments of Canada and Quebec said on Monday, August 22, 2022, they reached an agreement in principle to protect endangered caribou in the province, but Indigenous and environmental groups said concrete action is needed.

The site of the first mass in Quebec during the Pope's weeklong visit to Canada to make amends with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities is a renowned pilgrimage destination that merges Indigenous culture and Catholicism.

Indigenous leaders in Quebec say the government's French-language bill is destructive, paternalistic and could put the survival of First Nations languages at risk.

Indigenous leaders in Quebec on Friday, November 26, 2021, denounced Premier François Legault for his decision not to meet with them during a two-day economic summit in Montreal.

Two Quebec nurses have been suspended without pay after allegedly mocking an Indigenous woman at a public clinic in Joliette, Que., northeast of Montreal.

Quebec is investing $15 million into the province's health-care system to increase cultural security among First Nations and Inuit communities.

The vast majority of non-Indigenous Quebecers recognize that First Nations members in the province are subject to racism or discrimination, survey results released on Wednesday, August 12, 2020, suggest.

Traditional chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation maintained on Saturday, February 22, 2020, that they want to see RCMP gone from their territory and a halt to construction of a natural-gas pipeline on their lands to kickstart talks with the federal government and see a possible end to crippling rail blockades.

Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Simon said on Friday, July 26, 2019, he's decided to cut off all talks with Oka Mayor Pascal Quevillon after the mayor refused to apologize for derogatory comments about the First Nations territory.

A war of words between a First Nations grand chief and a small-town Quebec mayor instigated hours of meetings on Friday, July 26, 2019, with federal and provincial officials, but the underlying conflict between the two communities goes back centuries.