Indigenous News

PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — British Columbia's government says Joffre Lakes Park will shut for a month in about two weeks' time, to allow it to "recover from a busy summer" and allow First Nations to carry out cultural practices.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is trying to ease rising tensions between forestry workers and Indigenous protesters who oppose a new bill they say threatens their way of life.

OTTAWA — Two former Indigenous leaders on both sides of the debate over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say the federal government can't ignore First Nations on future infrastructure projects it seeks to approve.

SECHELT — An 18-month investigation at a former residential school site in British Columbia's Sunshine Coast has found more evidence of children who disappeared there, the area’s First Nation says. The shishalh First Nation in Sechelt, B.C.

WINNIPEG — The father of a First Nations woman who died at the hands of a Winnipeg serial killer told a special court hearing his family was left to "grieve in pieces" for three years before she was identified.

OTTAWA — Canadian officials negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution at the United Nations say they didn't push other countries to agree to a cap on plastic production because such a measure likely would not be adopted.

The head of British Columbia's police watchdog says Indigenous people remain overrepresented in its investigations of incidents involving officers in which someone is seriously injured or killed.

Wildfire officials in Saskatchewan have lifted a provincial fire ban because the weather has improved, while thousands from displaced communities in Manitoba have started to return home.

Heiltsuk Tribal Council Chief Marilyn Slett says no one in her community is immune to the small acts of racial profiling that can embed themselves in the everyday life of an Indigenous person in Canada.

OTTAWA — Some claimants are now receiving compensation payments through a $23-billion settlement for more than 300,000 First Nations children and their families.