Indigenous News

TORONTO — Oji-Cree author Joshua Whitehead is among five finalists for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Indigenous traditional owners on Wednesday won a court challenge that prevents an energy company from drilling for gas off Australia’s north coast.

NAJUAAT, NVT. — An Inuk man who alleges he was sexually abused by a former Oblate priest in Nunavut when he was 13 years old says meeting the man face to face after nearly three decades was a relief.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada will release its latest 2021 census report on the housing landscape in Canada this morning. Housing prices rose considerably between 2016 and last year, sparking widespread concerns about affordability.

An independent expert panel is calling for more Indigenous representation in top positions of the Thunder Bay Police Service and the board overseeing it, in order to help achieve longstanding recommended policing reforms.

QUEBEC — Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault apologized on Tuesday for offending the husband of an Indigenous woman who filmed nurses mocking her as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital.

CALGARY — Young Blackfoot actors are to embark on a time-travelling journey focusing on the signing of the historic Treaty 7 with the Canadian government in a play opening in Calgary this week.

MONTREAL — Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault faced criticism from his political rivals over the weekend after he said members of an Indigenous community want to reopen a semantic debate rather than fix racism problems at a nearby hospit

YELLOWKNIFE — Miranda Currie wants Indigenous kids to see themselves represented authentically in media. The writer, musician, filmmaker and educator who lives in Yellowknife, is Mushkegowuk and a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba.

SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. — A family of sea otters emerges from the ocean and rambles up the rocky shoreline, while a great blue heron in search of a meal pokes at a wall of rocks.