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1 month ago | 
aptnnews.ca | Karyn Pugliese |Fraser Needham |Annette Francis
Northern Ontario Chiefs from Mattagami, Matachewan and Flying Post First Nations stood side by side with mining developers to announce a major deal pushing the Crawford Nickel Sulphide Project forward. The project is two massive open-pit mines and an on-site processing facility to extract critical minerals for electric vehicles. Construction will roll out in two phases to gradually ramp up production.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
aptnnews.ca | Fraser Needham
A veteran journalist says U.S. resident-elect Donald Trump’s continued threats to tighten the border between Canada and the United States is raising concerns amongst Native Americans. “I think one of the major concerns that is popping up immediately is what does it mean for the border and to be able to cross the border for things like pow wows and ceremony and things that are fairly routine,” Mark Trahant, who has been covering Native American issues for more that five decades, said.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
aptnnews.ca | Fraser Needham
The Liberals and NDP are each accusing the other of killing Bill C-61 – the First Nations Clean Water Act. With the Liberal government’s decision to prorogue the House of Commons last week, all legislation still on the order paper died including Bill C-61. But in an interview with APTN’s Nation to Nation, Indigenous Services Canada Minister Patty Hajdu said the legislation could have been passed long before Parliament convened in December.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
aptnnews.ca | Fraser Needham
Canada’s minister of Indigenous Services says the government feels it has no choice but to move forward on agreement in long-term reform of child welfare services that only includes First Nations in Ontario.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
aptnnews.ca | Fraser Needham
The annual December gathering of the Assembly of First Nations is in the books but what remains to be seen is whether a rift over how best to achieve child welfare reform can be bridged. At a Special Chiefs Assembly in Calgary in October, First Nations leaders voiced displeasure that the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (Caring Society) was not part of negotiations that led to a $47.8 billion dollar proposed agreement on long-term reform in the First Nations child welfare system.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
aptnnews.ca | Mark Blackburn |Fraser Needham
An NDP MP says Randy Boissonnault had no choice but to resign from cabinet this week over allegations that he falsely claimed to be Indigenous. “His [alleged] abuse of the system when it comes to claiming to be Indigenous for the purpose of accessing funds that were set aside for Indigenous people, that is brutal,” said Blake Desjarlais, who is from the Fishing Lake Métis Settlement in northern Alberta. “That’s the highest form of racism we have in the country.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
aptnnews.ca | Fraser Needham
Donald Trump’s convincing win in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election significantly raises the profile of one Oklahoma senator says a long-time observer of Native American politics. “This puts Oklahoma in front and the one to watch is Markwayne Mullin (Republican), who’s a member of the Cherokee Nation and the only Native American in the U.S. Senate,” Mark Trahant, who is an editor-at-large with the digital news organization ICT or Indian Country News, said from Phoenix, Arizona.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
aptnnews.ca | Fraser Needham
An NDP MP says chiefs made the right decision in Calgary last week by rejecting a $47.8 billion agreement on long-term reform in the First Nations child welfare system. Lori Idlout said the final settlement agreement was full of problems including it expired after ten years, did not include the First Nations Child and Family and Caring Society and was population rather than needs based. “First Nations children matter in all of Canada and it should not be based on population,” she said.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
aptnnews.ca | Fraser Needham
First Nations leaders continue to make arguments for and against accepting a $47.8 billion deal with Canada on long-term reform of the on-reserve child welfare system. The draft final settlement agreement on long-term child welfare reform was initially announced by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak at a chiefs assembly in Montreal this summer. Nation to Nation interviewed three people about the FSA for this week’s episode.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
aptnnews.ca | Leanne Sanders |Fraser Needham
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) may have been hoping for quick consensus on the new $47.8 billion child welfare draft Final Settlement Agreement (FSA), but the opening day of the Special Chiefs Assembly got off to a rocky start. The new deal was nearly derailed by a lack of consensus as several motions were proposed including people outside the AFN to sit on panels. The motions were defeated.
