Indigenous

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. — First Nations leaders say the pride two Saskatchewan courthouse staff felt on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation turned to shame after they were told to change out of the orange clothing they wore to work.

WINNIPEG — The federal government says it's making progress on a pilot program for an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl is missing.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark’s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic — the Inuit language of the sparsely populated Arcti

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark’s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly because she intended to speak only in Greenlandic — the Inuit language of the sparsely populated Arctic island — frustr

WINNIPEG — An Indigenous man convicted of killing a restaurant worker 50 years ago was acquitted Thursday by a judge who called the case a wrongful conviction that involved systemic discrimination.

HALIFAX — Federal fisheries officers in Nova Scotia say they're refusing some enforcement duties because of threats to their safety, as they await Ottawa's response to their complaints.

Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America, the early Black civil rights movement and post-Second World War Japan are finalists for the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize.

A First Nation in southwestern Ontario has recommended some residents evacuate, citing the risk of elevated levels of a toxic chemical being removed from a neighboring Sarnia plastics plant.

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