Mi'kmaq

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has asked Canada's military ombudsman to investigate racism in the Canadian Forces following several high-profile incidents and a report linking service members to right-wing extremist and hate groups.

New Brunswick's Indigenous leaders are again expressing their concerns about consultations with the province's Progressive Conservative government around shale gas development.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told Liberal supporters their party is best positioned to get major projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion built because it's able to take "difficult compromise positions" between growing the economy and protecting the environment.

An Alberta oilpatch company met with federal officials 22 times last year to lobby them about major fossil fuel projects. Ottawa is now drafting rules to specifically allow the company, AltaGas, to dump saltwater into a major Nova Scotia river.

Twenty years ago, only 30 per cent of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq students were graduating from high school. Today, that number stands at 90 per cent — the highest on-reserve graduation rate in the country.

The federal government is stepping in to regulate a company's controversial plan to use water from one of Nova Scotia's major rivers to create huge underground caverns to store natural gas, but a Mi'kmaq leader says Ottawa's move doesn't go far enough.

A diverse crowd of protesters took to the streets of Montreal on Sunday, October 7, 2018, to march against racism and denounce the newly-elected Coalition Avenir Quebec government.

Thousands of Canadian women looked to the future while acknowledging the past on Saturday, January 20, 2018, as they took to the streets for a second co-ordinated round of protest marches.

Dozens of protesters are taking a stand against mining projects on a Cape Breton mountain that is considered sacred by the Mi'kmaq.

A drydocked boat owned by a non-Aboriginal fisherman was torched, followed a few days later by a boat owned by a Mi'kmaq man.

More than 100 people gathered in a Halifax park this week to criticize the rise of the white supremacist movement in the United States and recall racism's role in Canadian history.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations has opened the organization's annual meeting with an impassioned plea to end racism.

Tensions over how Halifax honours its contentious founder are growing as a plan to topple the statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown park circulates on social media.

Mi’kmaq communities in New Brunswick say the controversial Energy East pipeline project must have their consent before they allow it to pass through their territories.