Indigenous rights

As grisly details of the rape and death of eight-year-old Tori Stafford were being recounted by a Conservative MP during question period on Wednesday, September 26, 2018, some MPs reacted with gasps of revulsion.

Take a behind-the-scenes peek at the investigation by Mike De Souza and National Observer's team into the Kinder Morgan saga.

Covered in fake blood, dozens of people staged a 'die-in' in front of the gates of a Kinder Morgan pipeline terminal on Burnaby Mountain on Wednesday.

Canada is in an uncomfortable space. For over 150 years, this country has been in a push/pull dynamic relationship with First Nations people.

Minnesota regulators should approve Enbridge Energy's proposal for replacing its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline only if it follows the existing route rather than company's preferred route, an administrative law judge recommended on Monday, April 23, 2018.

The federal government is embarking on a coast-to-coast-to-coast consultation process before drafting its new Recognition and Implementation of Rights Framework for Indigenous peoples.

In an exclusive interview with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, National Observer learned that the Liberal leader had Kinder Morgan approval on his mind as early as December 2015. This is what he had to say.

Reconciliation means many things, but access to clean water is an absolute requisite, writes David Suzuki.

In Canada, large-scale projects such as Site C in B.C. and Muskrat Falls in Labrador run counter to our commitments to combat climate change and respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Both projects are over budget and years behind schedule.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was forced on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, to claw back a suggestion bilingualism requirements for Supreme Court justices be waived to encourage Indigenous candidates.

First Nations protesters at a salmon farm off the northern coast of Vancouver Island are vowing to stay, despite court action aimed at forcing them out.

Premier John Horgan says British Columbia's $8.8 billion Site C dam project could face ongoing legal battles over Indigenous rights and may eventually end up in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Former B.C. cabinet minister and well-known Vancouver radio broadcaster Rafe Mair has died at the age of 85.

Canada's decision to approve an expansion for the Trans Mountain pipeline was a "one-way street" that ignored the economic and title rights of Indigenous people, a lawyer said on Monday.

From Jewish-Canadian Holocaust survivors to the federal Attorney General, at least 30,000 people walked in solidarity with Indigenous peoples on Sunday.