Indigenous News

EDMONTON — Muriel Stanley Venne, a trail-blazing Métis woman known for her Indigenous rights advocacy, has died at 87. Venne, born in Lamont, Alta.

High winds are again hitting the coast of British Columbia, as gusts surpassing 100 km/h have been reported at several outlying islands.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A group of Gisèle Pelicot’s Australian admirers said Friday they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Abor

An Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is celebrating a legal victory in the latest stage of its attempt to take back claimed ancestral rainforests .

HALIFAX — Ottawa has hatched a plan to redistribute the wealth of Nova Scotia's baby eel harvest from large licence holders to hard-working, individual fishers like Suzy Edwards and Mark Weldon.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A group of Gisele Pelicot’s Australian admirers said Friday they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Abor

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Alberta's police watchdog says there's no evidence an offence was committed when Mounties tackled a prominent First Nation chief and punched him in the face during an arrest outside a Fort McMurray, Alta., casino in 2020.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced two new appointments to the Senate, including Nunavut's first ever member of Parliament.

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OTTAWA — The federal justice minister says a new commission that will review potential wrongful convictions will help racialized and Indigenous Peoples seek justice who are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.