First Nations

A May report in the online version of Policy Options magazine estimates just one per cent of Canada's 2,160 judges in the provincial courts are aboriginal, while three per cent are racial minorities.

​The Alberta Energy Regulator has introduced new rules that it says will ultimately remove unsightly and toxic tailings ponds from the oilsands mining region of northeastern Alberta.

Protest organizers from the group "Fight C" said the dam on the Peace River proposed by BC Hydro is a waste of taxpayer money and infringes on the rights of First Nations.

From overzealous civil servants trying to shut down a little girls' lemonade stand to Fourth of July festivities hosted by the U.S. ambassador, it was quite a week in Ottawa. Then came Jason Kenney.

Canada's national pipeline regulator is putting a request for extensions from energy giant Enbridge on hold, dealing another blow to the company's Northern Gateway project.

In Manitoba, Health Minister Jane Philpott announced the government will spend an additional $382 million over three years for that program.

In a stinging repudiation of the Harper government, the Federal Court of Appeal quashed the approval of a major pipeline project because its review process ignored concerns of Canada's First Nations.

Aboriginal Canadians were nearly three times as likely to experience sexual assault in 2014 as their non−aboriginal counterparts, a new report from Statistics Canada suggests.

The residents from Easterville and the Chemawawin First Nation were ordered to leave on Thursday as the fires crept to within half a kilometre.

After 15 years, the Indigenous-led conservation and land management plan for the Northwest Territories’ southern Mackenzie River Valley could become a reality.

The massive dam on the Peace River is considered a signature project for B.C. Premier Christy Clark and construction has already begun after an expedited federal−provincial environmental review.