Indigenous

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — First Nations leaders from British Columbia are taking their environment and climate policy pitch directly to the international stage at a United Nations climate conference in Africa in an attempt to set a tone for domestic c

Thunder Bay police and paramedics should receive mandatory, ongoing training on anti-Indigenous racism, unconscious bias and the history of colonization, an inquest jury recommended Friday after examining the police custody deaths of two First Nation

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of provisions that prevent an offender from avoiding jail by serving their sentence in the community, finding no evidence they had a disproportionate effect on Indigenous people.

OTTAWA — An independent official appointed to help communities investigate unmarked graves at former residential school sites says she is exploring the idea of whether a special tribunal should prosecute or investigate related crimes.

Time changes everything — including the way archeology works.

EDMONTON — An Indigenous woman has filed a lawsuit against the operator of an Edmonton hospital alleging she faced discrimination and neglect by staff when she delivered her daughter, who died soon after birth.

MONTREAL — An Indigenous Quebec man who was denied car insurance because he lived on a reserve was the victim of race discrimination, the province's human rights commission concluded in a recent decision.

SASKATOON — A report commissioned after controversy circled a health professor's claims of being Métis says the University of Saskatchewan was unprepared for Indigenous identity fraud and uneducated on Indigenous people.

OTTAWA — The federal government and an organization representing Inuit in Canada have announced $6.4 million in funding to establish an Inuit Research Network.

WINNIPEG — An English proficiency test for prospective registered nurses in Manitoba, even those who receive all their education in English, is a racial barrier that disproportionately affects Indigenous people, a health official in northern Manitoba