Indigenous News

OTTAWA — More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal government is funding a study to do just that.

OTTAWA — The Canadian government is calling on the European Union to ease restrictions on seal products as member states review trade regulations.

The valuable sockeye salmon run, currently making its way up the Fraser River, is due to arrive at the Chilcotin River this weekend.

HALIFAX — The mother of an Indigenous woman who died in hospital with fungal meningitis says her daughter's race may have played a role in the allegedly negligent medical treatment she received.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More federal law enforcement officers are being sent to Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state after clashes over land between Indigenous peoples and farmers over the weekend, the Ministry of Justice said Monday.

WINNIPEG — "Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandaawiziwin.

OTTAWA — On the western side of Major's Hill Park, tall stalks of corn wave in the breeze from planters overlooking the place where the Rideau Canal empties into the Ottawa River.

WINNIPEG — Another First Nation in northern Manitoba has sent some of its residents south, as smoke from nearby wildfires continues to be a health risk for vulnerable members. The province said St.

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MONTREAL — An Indigenous man convicted of murder and attempted murder could get parole after the Federal Court ruled the parole board failed to consider his traumatic past when it denied his release.