Alaska tribal nations demand a say on Canadian resource projects

Group set to file a B.C. Supreme Court petition, arguing their historic ties to the region entitle them to consultation ...

Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of reckoning with colonial past

The Vatican insists the items were "gifts" to Pope Pius XI, but Indigenous groups and experts have long called for their ...

Vatican to Return Indigenous Cultural Items to Canada Taken a Century Ago

Dozen of pieces used in a 1925 exhibition, including a whale-hunting kayak, will be returned to Canada early next month.
NOW Toronto

Remembering the untold stories: Indigenous Veterans Day reflects on bravery, injustice, and reconciliation

Toronto commemorated Indigenous Veterans Day this weekend, and one organization says the date symbolizes more than ...
OrilliaMatters

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples raises concerns over federal budget

We need a budget that recognizes the lived reality of our people — not one that divides us by legislation or geography,' says ...

Eby says B.C. tried to involve private owners in Cowichan Aboriginal title case

B.C. Premier David Eby says the province previously tried unsuccessfully to get private property owners involved in the landmark Cowichan Tribes Aboriginal title case, as the City of Richmond prepares ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Port Coquitlam 'vigorously defending' Aboriginal claim, but no private land in play

The City of Port Coquitlam says it is "vigorously defending" public ownership of municipal lands against a nine-year-old ...

'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C.

Richmond argued Crown grants of fee simple "extinguished" any Aboriginal title existing over the claim area, while the province said the grants "displaced" title on the private lands, asking Young to ...

A hunt across the border - indigenous rights in case before Canada's Supreme Court

In Canada's British Columbia, the mountainous West Kootenay region forms a rare inland temperate rainforest, where the Sinixt tribe has hunted game, fished for salmon and picked berries for thousands ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Biggest landowner in Cowichan area wants Aboriginal title case reopened, in rare move

A company that says it is the biggest private landowner in the Cowichan Tribes' Aboriginal title area in Richmond, B.C., says ...
Opinion

Bruce Pardy: Courts and governments caused B.C.’s property crisis. They’re not about to fix it

In British Columbia, property rights are in turmoil. The B.C. Supreme Court recently declared that Aboriginal title exists on 800 acres of land in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. Aboriginal title, ...