Budget 2013: Everyone has their wish list ready
APTN National News The federal budget comes down Thursday. It’s the day when organizations across the country find out whether they’ll be getting cash from the feds. Just about everyone has their wish...
View ArticleHarper giving First Nations “the back of his hand” by linking welfare...
APTN National News OTTAWA–Prime Minister Stephen Harper is giving First Nations “the back of his hand” by introducing a program linking welfare payments to job training, says Opposition Leader Thomas...
View ArticleIdle No More confronts Aboriginal Affairs minister
APTN National News Tempers flared as Idle No More protesters confronted Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt at a media conference in Winnipeg Wednesday. Valcourt was in town to talk about new...
View ArticleHuman rights tribunal into First Nations discrimination underway again
APTN National News A human rights case is once again underway on whether Canada discriminates against First Nations children. The complaint against the federal government alleges it underfunds First...
View ArticleRaymond Robinson to begin second hunger strike
APTN National News You may remember his name. Raymond Robinson is back in Ottawa and for the same reasons. Robinson ended his fast with Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence in January after...
View ArticleAboriginal Affairs Minister Valcourt meeting with hunger-striking Elder...
(Elder Raymond Robinson. APTN/File Photo) APTN National News OTTAWA–Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt is scheduled to meet with hunger-striking Manitoba Elder Raymond Robinson on Friday in...
View ArticleMan charged in the Aamjiwnaang blockade looks to turn tables on judge
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News A man charged with defying a judge’s order to shutdown the Aamjiwnaang First Nation rail blockade in the throes of Idle No More movement is considering filing a...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau and what he means for Aboriginal peoples
APTN National News It was Justin Trudeau’s first day on the job Monday. As the leader of the Liberal party anyway. Trudeau won the Liberal leadership over the weekend. Many see him as the saviour of a...
View ArticleHarper needs to meet TRC to avoid First Nations uprise: Commissioner
APTN National News A Truth and Reconciliation Commission commissioner says the federal government’s legislation is counterproductive. Chief Wilton Littlechild says there needs to be a meeting between...
View ArticleMurder at God’s Lake renews call for public inquiry into missing and murdered...
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News Leah Anderson was on her way to go skating at the arena in God’s Lake Narrows First Nation when she vanished in January. Two days later her disfigured body was...
View ArticleCourts asked to force immediate hearing into Tyendinaga’s water issues
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News The mother of a child who died of leukemia last year in Tyendinaga has asked a court to order an injunction to force an immediate hearing to determine whether the...
View ArticleAmerican Lakota woman accuses border guards of racial profiling after they...
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News An American Indian woman is accusing border guards in Saskatoon of racial profiling after she was stopped while entering Canada and asked her heritage and if she...
View ArticleLabrador voters head to the polls next week
APTN National News In less than a week Labrador voters will go to the polls, again. The by-election was called after former Conservative cabinet minister Peter Penashue quit. Elections Canada found...
View ArticleSenator Brazeau told to pay back $48,000 in housing expenses
APTN National News OTTAWA–Algonquin Senator Patrick Brazeau has been told to pay back at least $48,000 following an audit into his claimed living expenses. The Senate committee on internal economy...
View ArticleMother of sick First Nations boy challenges Harper to show face in court
By Tim Fontaine APTN National News Maurina Beadle is as defiant as ever. “I’m not afraid,” said Beadle. “I’m not afraid to go back into the courthouse again.” It’s something she may have to do to...
View ArticleProtestors clash with Harper’s security and police in Winnipeg
APTN National News Prime Minister Stephen Harper went to Winnipeg to participate in a round-table discussion on cyberbullying last week. But some claimed the worst bullying was going on at a Winnipeg...
View ArticleLabrador voters go to the polls today
APTN National News Voters go to the polls today in Labrador. The place has election fever with candidate signs up all over. Voters will decide who will be their Member of Parliament after Prime...
View ArticleFeds seek to delay human rights tribunal until fall
APTN National News It was supposed to be a full two week of testimony at the Canada Human Rights Tribunal hearing a complaint that the federal government under funds First Nations children. But after...
View ArticleFeds told to stop spying on Cindy Blackstock
APTN National News The Privacy Commissioner has ordered the federal government to stop monitoring Cindy Blackstock. Blackstock is the well known First Nations child advocate who launched a human...
View ArticleA grandson reflects on Harper’s Indian residential school apology and the day...
By Jorge Barrera APTN National News It was late fall in 2005 when Alma Jane Bruyere appeared at the door of her grandson’s house in Fort Frances, Ont., carrying in her left hand a lawyer’s letter...
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