MNA President Poitras Applauds Precedent-Setting Federal Budget for Métis Nation
(March 23, 2017) – Today, Métis Nation of Alberta (“MNA”) President Audrey Poitras commended Prime Minister Trudeau and his government for the Métis Nation specific…
Justice
Alberta’s Youth Advocate releases investigative review involving death of an 18-year-old
Edmonton…The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate has completed an Investigative Review regarding the death of a young man and has publicly released the…
Update on Day Scholar Class Action
(March, 2017) – The Representative Plaintiffs in the Day Scholars Class Action anticipate a busy few months ahead as discussions with Canada’s Ministerial Special Representative,…
AFN Chief responds to Senator Beyak’s remarks on Indian Residential Schools
(March 9, 2017) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde issued the following statement today in response to remarks by Conservative Senator…
’60s Scoop Survivors win in Ontario court should be applied nation-wide
by John Copley (ANNews) – It took eight long years, but on February 14, 2017, Ontario Superior Court Judge Edward Belobaba ruled in favour of…
‘Elder in the Making’ documents the long road to reconciliation
by John Copley (ANNews) – On February 8, 2017 Business Link’s Aboriginal Business Development Services (ABDS) hosted a special screening of Elder in the Making,…
Treaty Six Grand Chief responds to Ontario Sixties Scoop Ruling
(February 2017) – “The court makes it clear that the mandate of successive Canadian governments was to suppress and assimilate Indigenous peoples through the removal…
Tenth Anniversary of Human Rights Complaint on Discrimination Against First Nations Children
(Feb. 23, 2017) — Today, Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde and Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family…
Marchers remember Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
By Regan Treewater (ANNews) – February 14 was an uncharacteristically warm night here in the City of Champions. The roads were filled with slush and…
Alberta child welfare class action members to appeal settlement on Feb. 22
by John Copley (ANNews) – In mid-November 2015 Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Denny Thomas approved an Alberta Child Welfare Class Action Settlement that…