Brett Forester

Federal New Democrats are criticizing Prime Minister Mark Carney over a First Nation in Ontario’s $100-million lawsuit against a second-tier subsidiary of his former firm, Brookfield Asset Management.

First Nations people who were harmed by Canada’s underfunding of child welfare services on reserves and in Yukon can now apply for individual compensation payments, as the claims process officially opens on in a multibillion-dollar class-action settlement.

First Nations chiefs in Ontario have overwhelmingly approved a carve-out agreement on child and family services reform, after the Assembly of First Nations rejected a $47.8-billion national offer last fall.

Canada refuses to meet with a new First Nations commission established to renegotiate a landmark, but rejected, multibillion-dollar agreement on child and family services reform, according to chairperson Chief Pauline Frost.

The RCMP unreasonably blocked media access and arbitrarily detained a Gitxsan reporter five years ago in a raid on Wet’suwet’en-led blockades in northern British Columbia, the force’s review body says in a new report.

Six regional chiefs of the Assembly of First Nations say their leader is stoking division among the organization over the issue of child welfare reform, suggesting she may be too cozy with the Canadian government.

Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization is vowing to fight a proposed free trade agreement with Canada. Critics say the deal favours mining corporations and could encourage human rights abuses in the ecologically and culturally diverse South American country.

Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak has penned a "concerned" letter to child advocate Cindy Blackstock, amid uncertainty about the future of long-term reform for the on-reserve child welfare system.

Canada says it will not negotiate in line with Assembly of First Nations resolutions rejecting a $47.8-billion proposal to reform the on-reserve child welfare system. That means it's back to the legal battlefield for child advocate Cindy Blackstock.

First Nations leaders are urging Canada to reconsider its decision not to renew national negotiations on a $47.8-billion proposal to reform the on-reserve child welfare system long term, after chiefs rejected the offer last fall.