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Lynn Beyak cast herself as a defender of free speech and a victim of political correctness moments before senators voted summarily on Thursday, May 9, 2019, to suspend her without pay from the Senate for refusing to delete derogatory letters about Indigenous people from her website.

The Senate's ethics committee recommended on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, that Sen. Lynn Beyak be suspended without pay over incendiary letters about Indigenous Peoples she posted to her website.

A $200-million component of the settlement for abuses at federally run schools for Indigenous children should help address the long-term pain of male survivors, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said on Thursday, March 14, 2019, after a regional chief sounded the alarm this week about a lack of supports aimed at Indigenous men and boys.

Indigenous parliamentarians say Jody Wilson-Raybould's controversial exit from the cabinet doesn't signal the end of reconciliation efforts between the federal government and Indigenous Peoples.

The federal government's forthcoming annual public accounts will release a trove of numbers that will show how much more Ottawa expects to pay to settle billions of dollars in legal claims made by Indigenous Peoples and their communities.

Alberta's education minister apologized Thursday after learning an online social studies course asked students about the positive effects of residential schools.

From Vancouver to Halifax, crowds of people rallied in cities across Canada on Saturday, June 30, 2018, to protest a policy that separated families who were caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Cree Elder Patrick Etherington went to see the bishop in 1986 at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Moosonee, Ont. As a 30-year-old man, now a father, he walked straight into the local headquarters of the organization that had stolen him from his own parents.

Artists are reclaiming space in inner cities and on highways where many Indigenous women have suffered violence or disappeared.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops says it's incorrect to suggest that Pope Francis is refusing to apologize to survivors of Canada's notoriously abusive residential schools.

Trudeau said Wednesday reconciliation is "not just between government and Indigenous peoples."

Rallies in Canadian cities that were sparked by the acquittal of a man accused of murdering an Indigenous teen in Winnipeg continued Saturday, including one that briefly blocked an intersection for a round dance.

"A good leader would never have fallen for such a ploy, but when an inexperienced leader wins by a small margin, and does not adequately consider other viewpoints, some wisdom and common sense are lost," said Beyak in a fiery statement released on Monday.

Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer says controversial Sen. Lynn Beyak has been removed from the Conservative Party caucus after refusing to remove a "racist" comment from her website.

Natan Obed, the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said “Inuit were not consulted in the creation of the 10 principles,” while Assembly of First Nations national chief Perry Bellegarde said "we weren’t involved in developing a draft of that."