Indigenous

Award-winning Cree writer and teacher Darrel J. McLeod has died at the age of 67. Corina Eberle, Mcleod's publicist at Douglas & McIntyre, says he died Thursday, adding his death was "sudden and unexpected.

The Yukon government says an independent review of a catastrophic ore slide and cyanide solution spill at a gold mine in June is now underway, in a process that's going ahead despite concerns raised by the local First Nation.

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Yukon's Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation says an independent review of a disaster at the Eagle Gold mine on its territory is urgently needed but it has serious concerns the Yukon government is trying to "erase" its role in the probe.

WINNIPEG — APTN will soon launch a channel with programming primarily in Indigenous languages.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A 16-year-old biennial event aimed at fostering business in the country's eastern Arctic and northern regions has been cancelled indefinitely as a dispute unfolds between Inuit and a Labrador group claiming to share their heritage.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A salmon task force that is examining the impact of the massive Chilcotin River landslide in British Columbia says it's prepared for the "emergency enhancement" of fish stocks after the disaster.

WINNIPEG — They were loving daughters, mothers and friends whose ambition and potential were snuffed out by a "monster.

A Saskatchewan First Nation has issued an evacuation order for another of its communities as a fast-moving wildfire approaches.

OTTAWA — The Assembly of First Nations has postponed a special assembly for chiefs to vote on a landmark child welfare reform deal with Canada due to concerns about the process and a late translation of the document to French.