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A number of Indigenous candidates who ran unsuccessfully in Vancouver’s recent municipal elections say more support and higher voter turnout from the urban First Nations population is needed to help get more Indigenous politicians into elected office. “Indigenous people are at the forefront of a lot of the crises in Vancouver, …

Elaine Fox knows everyone in Onion Lake Cree Nation. That means the elder knows how methamphetamine is altering the fabric of her community like never before. “It’s broken family relationships,” she said. Onion Lake Cree Nation Elder Elaine Fox is helping people fight substance use. (Kory Siegers/CBC) The 66-year-old said …

Not far from the roar of the midway, a special exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition quietly combines art and technology to give visitors a sense of the history and culture of a First Nations community. That community, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, is known in Toronto because its traditional …

Wearing a jerk vest and ready to be pulled through the air on ropes for a stunts course, Dan McMaster eagerly volunteers to go first. They’ve been the first to volunteer for every class exercise over the past three months. “I wanted to get everything that I could out of it. Whatever …

As Hibba Asim and her friends were on their way Saturday evening to The Lights Festival — which was advertised by its U.S.-based organizer as taking place in the Toronto area — the 16-year-old said she was imagining a scene out of the Disney movie Tangled. “All the lanterns go up, and it …

Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs opposed to a natural gas pipeline under construction in northern British Columbia have concluded an 18-day tour across Canada aimed at building solidarity with other Indigenous groups over shared concerns about land ownership and consent to development. The Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline project is a $6.6-billion, 670-kilometre pipeline that will deliver natural gas from …

A trio of northern First Nations expect to be the first Indigenous group to take over child welfare services from the Alberta government — but say their new agency won’t be up and running for over a year. Loon River Cree Nation, Peerless Trout First Nation and Lubicon Lake Band …

B.C. Ferries and the Snuneymuxw First Nation say they’ve entered into a historic formal agreement recognizing the nation’s treaty rights, that will guide the ferry company’s business decisions in Snuneymuxw territory in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island.  “It’s a first of its kind [agreement] between B.C. Ferries and a First Nation,” said …

A 17th-century replica longhouse constructed on Six Nations as part of an initiative promoting ecotourism and Haudenosaunee culture was damaged extensively in a fire on Friday. “It’s with deep sadness to announce that this afternoon the Ogwehoweh Skill and Trades Training Centre Longhouse Ganǫsa’ǫ:weh (OSTTC) was engulfed in flames,” said a news release posted to the longhouse’s …

Money to compensate young people harmed by Canada’s discriminatory child welfare system is expected to begin flowing to First Nations sometime next year, now that the federal government and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) have reached a final settlement agreement. Ottawa, the AFN and plaintiffs in two class-action cases reached an agreement-in-principle …