Brett Forester

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.

First Nations leaders from across Canada expressed some optimism but mostly skepticism and even cynicism as they arrived in Gatineau, Que., for Prime Minister Mark Carney's summit to allay their concerns over his new law to fast-track major projects.

Twelve First Nations, Inuit or Métis people were elected as the ballot count continues on Tuesday in the 2025 general election.

New Democrats would continue to combat injustice and pressure the federal government to respect Indigenous Peoples' human rights if elected to Parliament, Jagmeet Singh said Wednesday in an election pitch to First Nations.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pitched First Nations leaders with what he called practical solutions to create economic prosperity on Tuesday, but he reiterated concerns around the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its potential impact on resource development.

Two federal leaders were asked if they would impose a pipeline on Indigenous nations that don’t want it during Wednesday's French debate. Indigenous rights lawyers say any answer other than no would "be contrary to the Constitution."

Under Mark Carney's leadership, global investment firm Brookfield was accused of breaching Indigenous rights or harming the environment in at least four countries — Brazil, Canada, Colombia and the United States — CBC Indigenous has found.

Mark Carney’s father Robert Carney was a federal Indian day school principal in the Northwest Territories in the 1960s, at a place where residential school boarders also attended. Yet three historians are urging caution when approaching that complicated legacy. Here's why.

Indigenous leaders are demanding action as Canada's federal election heats up, hoping their peoples' past sacrifices to secure and defend this country aren't forgotten in the trade and affordability focused campaign.

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.

Lawyers concluded oral arguments this week in Toronto as a sprawling, nine-week civil trial launched by the Métis National Council against former leaders, consultants and the Manitoba Métis Federation winds down.

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.