Winnipeg Free Press March 2, 2008

TWO months ago judgment was delivered in one of the most important cases ever to be decided by the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench — the Manitoba Métis Federation, and some of its individual members against the government of Canada and the government of Manitoba. (Keep reading…)

First Nations people must hold leaders accountable

Winnipeg Free Press Feb 11 2008

KING Louis’s crown got another dent when a Peguis First Nation band audit hit the news. Louis Stevenson — the former long-standing chief — received a salary and honorariums totaling $240,000, as well as $113,000 in travel expenses. (Keep reading…)

BRODIE FENLON Globe and Mail Update and Canadian Press January 15, 2008

Canada’s aboriginal population has increased 45 per cent over a decade and cracked the one-million mark for the first time since records have been kept, new census data indicate. (Keep reading…)

Special to Globe and Mail Update January 15, 2008

In schoolyard politics, the in crowd is always invited to all the cool parties. So is the case in Canadian politics. While it would have consoling to learn that Phil Fontaine’s invitation to the first ministers dinner meeting was simply lost in the mail, the reality is that the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations wasn’t on the guest list to Friday’s event at 24 Sussex Dr. (Keep reading…)

Freedom Socialist Newspaper, Vol. 28, No. 6 December 2007 — January, 2008 www.socialism.com (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Dec 7 2007

A court ruling is expected to be released as early as today that could dramatically redefine the legal status of the Manitoba Métis community and their personal fortunes. (Keep reading…)

The Dominion November 12, 2007

The primarily Indigenous, mostly Cree (also ‘Chipewyan Dene’) community of Fort MacKay–just north of the internationally famous tar sand “boom” city of Fort McMurray–is said to be the “richest First Nation in Canada.” The alleged wealth is largely due to the fact that the community is surrounded by, and on top of, tar sand. (Keep reading…)

Mon Sep 24 2007

FOR a few years now, a growing amount of summer traffic has rumbled past my dad’s house up in Manigotagan. There are trucks of varying pedigrees, sizes and colours. Sometimes an SUV rolls by pulling a trailer with a boat or a four-wheel ATV loaded on. Many cars pass by, too. Depending on their speed and the condition of the gravel road, some throw up more dust than others. (Keep reading…)

Joan Delaney Epoch Times Sep 21, 2007 http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-9-21/59991.html

On June 29, native protestors marched past the Parliament building in Ottawa for a ‘National Day of Action’ to bring attention to gross poverty in native communities. Protests included fires burning on rail lines, ramshackle buses parked across highways, marches in every city, and teepees on legislature lawns. (Keep reading…)

United Nations, General Assembly Report of the Human Rights Council

September 12, 2007

NOTE: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was finally passed at a vote in the General Assembly on September 12, 2007. Canada was one of only four countries — the others being the U.S., Australia and New Zealand — that voted against it. 143 voted in favour and eleven abstained. (Keep reading…)