I am deeply concerned by the persistent misrepresentations of Bill C-15 being spread by Conservative-friendly think tanks and media outlets, writes former MP Romeo Saganash.
"UNDRIP has become — depending on your politics — a key to transforming Canadian laws in an extraordinary act of reconciliation or a 'bogeyman,'" writes Karyn Pugliese, a.k.a. Pabàmàdiz.
The Liberal government is set to introduce long-awaited legislation today, December 3, 2020, to enshrine the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian law.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was barely a minute into his speech on Monday, March 11, 2019, announcing a deputy leader from Quebec when he invoked the memory of Jack Layton, who famously led the party to its 2011 sweep of the province that propelled the party to official Opposition status.
After a year as leader of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh is facing his biggest political fight: trying to secure a seat in Parliament amid anemic fundraising, polls that show his party stuck in third place, and a growing list of veteran members of Parliament who will sit the next election out.
"Why doesn't the prime minister just say the truth and tell Indigenous Peoples that he doesn't give a f**k about their rights?" demanded the NDP's Romeo Saganash re Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has split up Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada into two separate ministries, acknowledging the original department's "colonial" structure.
NDP indigenous affairs critic Romeo Saganash is apologizing for having plagiarized portions of a recent newspaper column about Canada's 150th anniversary.
The Site C project goes against Trudeau government's pledge to have a nation-to-nation relationship, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.