First Nations

First Nations leaders from Yukon are meeting with bankers in Toronto this week to try to persuade them not to invest in energy development on the range of a vital caribou herd.

Four British Columbia Indigenous groups are set to argue in the Federal Court of Appeal that the Canadian government failed to consult adequately with them before its latest approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

About a year ago, Alberta's United Conservative Party leader stood in front of 1,500 raucous supporters and called the federal carbon tax an act of "economic masochism" that he would fight with everything in his power if he were elected premier.

Regina resident Dennis Amon says federal Conservatives have a reputation to "eat their own," but he had hoped for a different outcome for his member of Parliament, Andrew Scheer.

Ottawa is seeking help to avoid what it says could be the extinction of some British Columbian salmon species because of a massive landslide on the Fraser River that sparked a co-ordinated emergency response this year.

Ministers for justice and Indigenous services released a joint statement saying the Human Rights Tribunal's order in September "does not properly address all issues."

A simple four-page piece of legislation sets the path forward for Indigenous rights in B.C.

A report is urging British Columbia to get better financial guarantees that mining companies will pay for the mess they make.

A new national study of nutrition among First Nations has found rates of obesity and diabetes that are significantly higher than the general Canadian population.

Canada will be years past celebrating its tricentennial before the country can close the economic gap between men and women if things keep improving at the glacial pace they are now, a new report says.

"I've heard the critiques that we need to be doing more, and I agree with them," Trudeau said Wednesday. "I am impatient as well."

The leader of the Assembly of First Nations says the minority government elected on Monday, October 21, 2019, presents an opportunity to keep moving the needle on issues affecting Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

"I think there's been some really good relationship building that's happened just through Jagmeet Singh," Grassy Narrows Chief Rudy Turtle said.

Families forced to flee the Lake Manitoba First Nation are expressing frustration around evacuation efforts following a recent snowstorm that's left thousands of people in the province without electricity for days.