First Nations

Province announces Indigenous addiction treatment and police funding

STANDOFF, AB. - It's an announcement that some would contend is long overdue. Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer and Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jason Luan were in Standof...

Mar 03, 2020 Doug Schweitzer and Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jason Luan, Cardston-Siksika MLA, Joseph Schow, Blood Tribe Police Chief Kyle Melting Tallow, join other members of Blood Tribe Council

Conservatives needs to start thinking about approach to Indigenous issues: MP

OTTAWA - National protests sparked by the opposition of some Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs to a pipeline project in B.C. are also sparking debate in Conservative circles about the part...

Mar 02, 2020

Ottawa launches consultations on Indigenous ownership of Trans Mountain pipeline

CALGARY - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the federal government is launching a new set of consultations with Indigenous groups that will determine if and how they might take part in ownership...

Feb 10, 2020

Kenney wants Ottawa to approve Teck mine for benefit of First Nations

CALGARY - Alberta's premier says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to move swiftly to approve the Teck Frontier oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray. Jason Kenney says there is no reason to delay th...

Olivia Thorington Jan 27, 2020

Alberta fires back at UN committee for criticism of energy megaprojects

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the United Nations is an unelected, unaccountable body that has no business criticizing Canada's energy megaprojects.Sonya Savage, in a statement, says that i...

Jan 07, 2020

Action plan on missing, murdered Indigenous women coming by June: Bennett

OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the federal government will release by June 2020 its plan to respond to the final report of the inquiry into missing an...

Dec 04, 2019

Âsokêwin Friendship Centre loses important provincial funding

The sokwin Friendship Centre, formerly the Rocky Native Friendship Centre Society, recently learned they are set to lose important funding from the province. "We will be losing two programs March 31, ...

Dec 03, 2019

Medicine Hat celebrating Metis Week

Medicine Hat, AB - Across Alberta, people are celebrating Metis Week, A week to recognize the important role that Mtis people have played in the founding and development of the province, and the contr...

Nov 14, 2019 Metis Nation Local 8 and the Miywasin Friendship Centre's Jeannette Hansen (Photo by Bob Schneider)

Metis veterans get long-awaited recognition ahead of Remembrance Day

OTTAWA - Metis contributions to Canada's Second World War effort are being recognized at a special ceremony in the nation's capital today. The ceremony comes two months after the federal governme...

Nov 08, 2019

AFN outlines First Nations election priorities ahead of fall vote

OTTAWA - Canada has been treating Indigenous issues as higher priorities since the last federal election but more work needs to be done, says Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde. The...

Sep 09, 2019