Indigenous News

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a First Nation's bid to stop a tailings dam from being raised at the Mount Polley mine site, which suffered a catastrophic dam collapse that spilled millions of litres of waste and water 11 years ago.

OTTAWA — Canada is pushing to bring language recognizing the rights of Indigenous Peoples back into a United Nations plastics pollution treaty.

A Yukon First Nation says it will oppose any new mining claims on its traditional territory as it begins a regional land-use planning process with the territory's government.

A First Nation community in northwestern Ontario has identified the man who was shot dead by provincial police in a courtroom last week.

SASKATOON — Saskatchewan's health authority is requiring staff to get consent before cutting the hair of Indigenous patients, nearly a year after a Métis man's ponytail was cut without his approval.

KAHNAWAKE — The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake said Tuesday that it is looking at imposing tolls on the roads crossing its territory in response to looming federal budget cuts.

WINNIPEG — Thousands of people have fled from a First Nation in northern Manitoba Monday as wildfires burned closer and closer to the community.

VICTORIA — Doctors, athletes, artists and First Nations and business leaders are all among the 15 people named to be invested in the Order of British Columbia. B.C. Lt.-Gov.

Organizers behind a protest held at a Nova Scotia RCMP detachment say police action against Indigenous-owned cannabis dispensaries represents a continued attack on Mi’kmaq sovereignty.

TORONTO — Historians are warning that valuable artifacts in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe could be lost after a recent decision by a regional council to shutter its heritage services and rehome nearly 35,000 artifacts.