By Tim Groves and Martin Lukacs Toronto Star December 4 2011 The federal government created a vast surveillance network in early 2007 to monitor protests by First Nations, including those that would attract national attention or target “critical infrastructure” like highways, railways and pipelines, ...

âpihtawikosisân blog November 30 2011 Yes, Prime Minister Harper is apparently scratching his head about where $90 million in federal funding to Attawapiskat has gone.  Many commentators then go on to make claims about lack of accountability, and no one knowing what happens to the money once it is ‘h...

News release from Survival International November 28 2011As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival International calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climate change....

‘Rather than spend the money following me around, spend it on the children’ By Tim Harper Toronto Star November 16 2011 OTTAWA – Why is the federal government spying on Cindy Blackstock? When does a life-long advocate for aboriginal children become an enemy of the state? The answer,...

By Brent Patterson Council of Canadians November 5 2011 The Winnipeg Free Press reports, “Do First Nations have a clear right to clean water under treaties or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or international declarations? And if so, how can bands enforce those rights, short of suing?” Rea...

By Mary Ormsby Toronto Star A cross-border battle is brewing over 500-year-old bones belonging to some of Ontario’s original inhabitants — a case descendents describe as academic grave robbing. read more ...

What are you doing on October 4? October 4th is a day where we honour the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. The violence experienced by Aboriginal women and girls in Canada is a national tragedy. We must take the time to give thanks to the families who have inspired the SIS [&...

Ontario’s inaction violates freedom of religion; threatens to spark new conflict KIFN Media September 26 2011 Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) –  KI Chief Donny Morris is urgently calling on Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to intervene to stop mining exploration activity on a sacred KI ancestr...

By Brent Patterson Council of Canadians September 2 2011 CBC reports that the Pikangikum First Nation in Ontario – located about 600 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay and 300 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg – “is experiencing a spike in its already high suicide rate, prompting a former...

“Protecting the way of life of the Anishinaabe who were here before the logging industry came to these lands and will be here after the logging companies have moved on” Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek news release August 17 2011 (Toronto) – Yesterday the Grassy Narrows First Nation (Asubpeesch...