Brett Forester

Assembly of First Nations chiefs are demanding the withdrawal of Canada and Alberta’s recently announced new pipeline deal and expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast that strongly oppose the initiative.

Indigenous programs face more than $2 billion in budget cuts but are being spared the worst of Ottawa’s proposed government-wide spending reductions in Mark Carney’s first budget as prime minister. In new money, Ottawa promises $2.3 billion over three years for safe water in First Nations.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has begun hearing a potentially precedent-setting legal battle between Canada and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation about the alleged systemic underfunding of on-reserve schooling in Ontario.

Indigenous Services Canada is failing to implement six past audits completed between 2015 and 2022, leaving First Nations facing persistent barriers when accessing health and dental care, safe drinking water and emergency services, the federal auditor general says.

The head of the Assembly of First Nations says she’s disappointed Indigenous leaders aren’t allowed to fully participate in this week’s first ministers’ meeting on public safety. Instead, Indigenous politicians got just an afternoon to address federal, provincial and territorial ministers before they were excluded, said National Chief Cindy Woodhouse-Nepinak.

Canada's spy agency was conducting a secret and previously undisclosed investigation into “Native extremism” that included an active investigation at Ipperwash in the weeks before Dudley George was killed in 1995, newly declassified documents show.

Indigenous Services Canada is conducting a forensic audit at Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, making it the third audit into First Nations spending made public in the province since 2024.

A United Nations body that investigates cases of enforced disappearance is postponing a visit to Canada due to a lack of money, though First Nations advocates hope the group will soon visit to investigate the deaths of children at residential schools.

Prime Minister Mark Carney told Métis leaders their voices will be heard and rights respected as the Liberal government implements its legislation to fast-track major projects deemed to be in the national interest.

An Ontario family is scrambling after the federal government abruptly pulled funding for their son, an autistic First Nations boy living off-reserve, leaving him without access to the clinical therapy and education assistance he's relied on for most of his life.