Our lead story: the future of Bill C-53—the federal Métis self-government recognition legislation—is left in doubt now that Métis Nation–Saskatchewan (MN–S) has announced its withdrawal of support.Door APTN

Our lead story: First Nations leaders express clear disappointment as to how Indigenous priorities fared in the Liberal federal budget tabled Tuesday.Door APTN

Our lead story: the Trudeau government unveils a 2024 federal budget with funding for Indigenous priorities, but spends less overall than previous years.Door APTN

Our lead story: following recent charges against three former police service members, a press conference called by the Thunder Bay police chief and the chair of the police board takes some interesting twists.Door APTN

Our lead story: fellow First Nations leaders in Manitoba weigh in on controversial allegations of child sexual abuse against the chief of Lake St. Martin.Door APTN

Our lead story: Na-Cho Nyäk Dun First Nation breathes a sigh of relief following a favourable Territorial Court of Appeal decision upholding a prohibition on mineral exploration in an ecologically-important area, activity greenlit by the Yukon government.

Our lead story: Chris Traverse, the chief of Lake St. Martin First Nation in Manitoba, faces a number of charges stemming from alleged sex offences involving a child.Door APTN

Our lead story: Ontario Provincial Police lay multiple charges against Holly Walbourne, one-time legal counsel with the Thunder Bay Police Service, as part of an ongoing investigation into members of the force dating back to late 2021.Door APTN

Our lead story: First Nations leaders in British Columbia are outraged at the news that two Prince George RCMP officers charged with manslaughter in the 2017 death of Dale Culver have now had those charges stayed.Door APTN

Our lead story: change is once again to come to Winnipeg’s downtown, with news of the redevelopment of a shopping mall in the city's core into a healthcare centre and affordable housing project.Door APTN

Our lead story: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pre-budget tour continues with a stop in Winnipeg to unveil his government’s plan to tackle Canada’s housing crisis.Door APTN

Our lead story: As the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal continues its hearings on federal compliance with Jordan's Principle—meant to secure First Nations kids' access to health, social and educational supports within 48 hours—critics point to a backlog of roughly one-third of all requests.Door APTN

Our lead story: The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society is once again before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, citing a federal failure to process Jordan's Principle claims in a timely manner.Door APTN

Our lead story: the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) is in turmoil, laying off half its staff amid allegations of a toxic workplace.Door APTN

Our lead story: denied the opportunity to run for council because she resides outside her First Nation’s boundaries, Vuntut Gwitchin member Cindy Dickson’s five-year fight finally reaches Canada’s highest court.Door APTN

Our lead story: the federal government says it's set aside $15 million to reimburse Indigenous governments and organizations in the Northwest Territories which spent their own funds to help evacuees during last year’s wildfire season.Door APTN

Our lead story: five former chiefs of Kitcisakik First Nation go to Ottawa to jointly ask the Indigenous Services Canada minister to intervene in a band council situation the ex-chiefs claim is dysfunctional.Door APTN

Our lead story: the Manitoba government agrees to a $530 million class action settlement concerning children in its child welfare system—the bulk of them Indigenous—from whom it held back federal children's special allowances (CSAs) between 2004 and 2019.Door APTN

Our lead story: after more than a year of pleas and protests in Manitoba, $40 million in funding—half federal, half provincial—is announced for a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for Indigenous women’s remains.Door APTN

Our lead story: the president of Nunatukavut Community Council (NCC) appears in federal court yesterday to defend their memorandum of understanding with the federal government, an MOU critics want quashed on the grounds the NCC’s 6,000 southern Labrador members are allegedly not Inuit.Door APTN

Our lead story: in the wake of DFO’s decision earlier this month to close the lucrative elvers (baby eels) fishery, the topic of how to prevent violence and poaching arises at the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans this week.Door APTN

Our lead story: federal Auditor General Karen Hogan releases reports on First Nations housing and policing and, to almost no one’s surprise, assigns the federal government failing grades in both cases.Door APTN

Our lead story: the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations calls out school leaders in Coronach SK for alleged racism and bullying after a family shares the story of their 10-year-old son's years of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual abuse by classmates.Door APTN

Our lead story: the recently-announced closure of the 2024 maritime commercial elver fishery draws fire from the Wolastoqey Nation, who accuse the feds of favouring commercial fishers.Door APTN

Our lead story: the recent death of an Edmonton father of four at a city hospital following a confrontation with peace officers has left the family of the late Darryl Sabourin with questions about what happened.Door APTN

Our lead story: there is growing concern about proposed budget cuts at Indigenous Services Canada—over $4 billion in fiscal year 2025-26, according to departmental plans—a possibility Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick called "unacceptable and irresponsible.”Door APTN

Our lead story: following last month’s 33 recommendations for change stemming from the Saskatchewan inquest into the horrific 2022 mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation, 14 more are announced by the National Joint Board of Investigations for the Parole Board of Canada and Correctional Services Canada.…

Our lead story: an Ontario human rights complaint alleging "sexist, racist and abusive behaviour" has been launched against Nishnawbe Aski Police Service Chief Roland Morrison, as well as two other service employees, by former NAPS head of finance Lori Payne.Door APTN

Our lead story: rallies in Winnipeg, Ottawa and Vancouver on International Women’s Day jointly call on the federal and Manitoba governments to begin the long-awaited search for Indigenous women’s remains at a Winnipeg-area landfill.Door APTN

Our lead story: residents from James Smith Cree Nation react to the conclusion of the Saskatchewan inquest into the in-custody death of mass killer Myles Sanderson, whose September 2022 stabbing spree killed 11 and injured 17.Door APTN

Our lead story: family of slain Métis hunters Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal attend the appeal hearing of Anthony Bilodeau, who, along with father Roger Bilodeau, was convicted in the 2020 shooting deaths of both men on a rural Alberta road.Door APTN

Our lead story: the Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario is in a state of crisis after a weekend fire destroys its only nursing station, forcing those with specific medical needs like cancer and diabetes to be evacuated.Door APTN

Our lead story: a city long known for its chronic housing challenges, Vancouver’s situation only threatens to get worse if nothing is done now, according to a report by a local housing advocacy group.Door APTN

Our lead story: Spirit Rising House, a foster home operator in Winnipeg, is placed into co-management by the province and under police investigation following allegations it illegally provided cannabis to youth living in their care homes.Door APTN

Our lead story: a Canadian senator puts forth a private member's bill that she hopes will finally put an end to forced and coerced sterilizations.Door APTN

Our lead story: an update on one N.W.T. mother’s fight to regain custody of her children two years after their apprehension, a territory where a staggering 98% of kids in care are Indigenous.Door APTN

Our lead story: the Saskatchewan inquest into the death of Myles Sanderson—the man who killed 11 and injured 17 more on James Smith Cree Nation in September 2022—gets underway in Saskatoon, to examine how he died and recommend ways to prevent similar deaths in the future.

Our lead story: the Mushkegowuk Council announces the completion of its feasibility study into a massive marine conservation area on the southwestern shores of James Bay and Hudson Bay, an initiative led by a group of northern Ontario First Nations.Door APTN

Our lead story: the mother of one of five family members recently killed in Manitoba has spoken out, claiming it was child and family services who placed her teenage daughter in the home where her life was taken.Door APTN

Our lead story: 22 years after the arrest and eventual imprisonment of serial killer Robert Willie Pickton for the murders of dozens of women, news that he’s now officially eligible to apply for day parole has angered the families of some of his victims.Door APTN

Our lead story: with convicted serial killer Robert Pickton now eligible for parole as of today, Assembly of First Nations B.C. Regional Chief Terry Teegee shares his concerns for the families of the victims.Door APTN

Our lead story: a vigil for five Indigenous family members killed in and around the Manitoba town of Carman—three of them children—together with charges against a 26-year-old woman in the death of a one-year-old boy on Wasagamack First Nation, form part of a disturbing trend of child deaths in the province in recent weeks.…

Our lead story: a family’s three-and-a-half year wait for justice comes to a close as Jordan Morin is sentenced for aggravated assault endangering life in the death of 22-year-old Cileana Taylor.Door APTN

Our lead story: some two weeks after the conclusion of the Saskatchewan coroner's inquest into the 2022 mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation, a First Nations-led emergency alert system is launched at the recommendation of that inquest.Door APTN

Our lead story: more is being learned about the Manitoba man charged with killing five family members, someone a judge once warned to seek help before his life spiralled out of control.Door APTN

Our lead story: the fallout continues over Saskatchewan Conservative MP Kevin Waugh’s comments in the House of Commons, when he blamed arson for the destruction of two First Nations water treatment plants.Door APTN

Our lead story: after the bodies of three children, a teenager and one woman are found Sunday morning in multiple southern Manitoba locations, the common law partner to the woman and father to the children is charged in their deaths.Door APTN

Our lead story: the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously rejects Quebec's constitutional challenge of Bill C-92, the federal law guaranteeing exclusive Indigenous control over child welfare services.Door APTN

Our lead story: as part of its look at a study of organizations yet to release records on children at Indian Residential Schools, the Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples hears from Saskatchewan chief coroner Clive Weighill.Door APTN

Our lead story: a Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) chiefs assembly hears concerns about policing in Thunder Bay, including the force’s lack of response when told of a missing 14-year-old girl from Neskantanga First Nation, a teen who'd be found dead just days later.Door APTN