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United Nations urges Canada to stop assimilatory impacts of the ‘Indian Act’
The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recently...
Giovanni Torre 13 May 2026
Canadian First Nations leaders fight back against attack on Indigenous rights in British Columbia
Canadian Indigenous leaders have urged legislators in British Columbia to vote d...
Giovanni Torre 20 Apr 2026
Canada's TsqÌ"éscenÌ" Nation granted legislative authority over child and family services by law
In the Cariboo region of British Columbia in Canada, the TsqÌ"éscenÌ" First Nati...
Jarred Cross 25 Dec 2024
Closing arguments heard in court case of Wet’suwet’en land defenders
A court case involving three Indigenous land defenders, criminalised for their e...
Rhiannon Clarke 19 Dec 2024
Landmark Canadian case “an earthquake in Indigenous rights jurisprudence"
The Quebec Superior Court last month stayed federal charges against two Mohawk m...
Giovanni Torre 22 Dec 2023
Indigenous groups and justice advocates slam Canada for mass incarceration of First Nations people

Dene (First Nations) lawyer Jennifer Duncan is in Geneva in the lead up to Canada's 4th Universal Periodic Review Pre-Session to draw international attention to Canada's continued mass incarceration o...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 31, 2023
Former senior cop urges Canadian authorities to search for missing First Nations women

A former deputy police chief who led a successful search for human remains in landfill has thrown his support behind the families of missing First Nations women who are calling for a similar search in...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 21, 2023
Pope makes historic apology for 'deplorable' church abuse of Indigenous Canadians

Pope Francis has made a long-awaited and historic apology to Indigenous people for the Catholic church's role in abuse and "cultural genocide" at Canada's residential schools.

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Teisha Cloos Apr 4, 2022
Shock as more unmarked graves found near former Canadian schools

Warning: This story contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. An Indigenous community in Canada's Saskatchewan province has discovered 54 unmarked graves at two former residential...

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Teisha Cloos Feb 17, 2022
Canada to pay $31 billion in child welfare settlement case

The Canadian Government has reached a $31.5 billion settlement to compensate Indigenous people harmed in their discriminatory welfare system.

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Teisha Cloos Jan 5, 2022
Canada pledges $40 billion compensation to Indigenous children for past injustices

Please note: This story contains reference to children who have died and references of child abuse. The Canadian Government has announced that they will set aside CAD$40 billion (AUD$43.

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Teisha Cloos Dec 15, 2021
Pope Francis Canada bound for Indigenous Reconciliation plans

Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada with an aim to help the reconciliation process with Canada's Indigenous peoples. The trip is in light of the shocking revelations of the Catholic church's role...

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Teisha Cloos Oct 29, 2021
Win for racial profiling case against Vancouver Police Department

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) has agreed to allow Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) to provide insight into the Indigenous experience of policing for a racial profil...

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NIT Sep 1, 2021
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame digitises Indigenous heroes

Please note: This story contains reference to someone who has died. Last week the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame announced the release of the Indigenous Sport Heroes Education Experience that will highl...

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Teisha Cloos Aug 16, 2021
North American Indigenous Games postponed until 2023

The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) will take place in Kjipuktuk/Halifax and Millbrook First Nation in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia in July 2023, after being postponed twice due to COVI...

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Teisha Cloos Aug 12, 2021
First Nations chip brand hitting Canadian shelves

Canadian supermarkets are soon to be stocking Indigenous-owned potato chip brand Tomahawk Chips. The independent Manitoba-based brand was created in 2015 by Alfred Lea, a First Nations man from Pine D...

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NIT Jul 26, 2021
Calls grow louder for release of residential school records

Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Chief has joined calls for the Canadian Government and the Catholic Church to release Indian Residential School records.

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NIT Jul 19, 2021
Canadian Assembly of First Nations welcomes first female National Chief

Making history, RoseAnne Archibald of the Taykwa Tagamou Nation in Ontario is the first woman to be elected as the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) in Canada.

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NIT Jul 15, 2021
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