(Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) – RoseAnne Archibald of Taykwa Tagamou Nation has been elected as National Chief of the Assembly of…
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Early last month, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) announced their candidates for the 2021 election…
(Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde released the below statement to mark the first day of Indigenous Peoples History month…
By Jake Cardinal (ANNews) – Canada will take several more years to end all long-term drinking-water advisories in First Nations territories. In 2015, during the…
(Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde said that as Canada acknowledges Orange Shirt Day and Residential School Survivors, it must…
(August 2020) – “The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. We must continue to listen, learn, be cautious and take care of one another,” – a…
by Jake Cardinal (ANNews) – Earlier this year, the world saw a David and Goliath battle happening in Wet’suwet’en between its Indigenous inhabitants and Big…
(May 29, 2020) – COVID-19 has exacerbated many existing challenges already facing Indigenous peoples, particularly those who live in remote areas. The Government of Canada…
by Jake Cardinal (ANNews) – On May 5, 2020, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) announced the creation of the AFN COVID-19 National Task Force….
(February 20, 2020) – Almost 30,000 Canadians across the country have united by signing an online petition – Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation 2020 –…