CANADA

An NHL legend from Manitoba is honouring an NHL pioneer from Saskatchewan and the path he cleared for First Nations people dreaming of the big league.

The future of a B.C. society established to provide support to residential school survivors is in limbo as a health fund born of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement is set to run out in March 2021. 

An Akwesasne mom’s love for lacrosse inspired a ribbon skirt that pays homage to Ireland’s national team for withdrawing from the next World Games to make room for the Iroquois Nationals.

The number of new and active COVID-19 cases on First Nations reserves across Canada continues to climb, according to data from Indigenous Services Canada.

Fred Sasakamoose, one of the first Indigenous athletes to play in the National Hockey League, has died at age 86 after being hospitalized with COVID-19.

Ontario Native Women's Association's annual poetry night is looking different this year as it moves online because of COVID-19.

The Thunder Bay jail has been called "a hellhole" and "a factory that produces broken Indigenous people." It's a place where addictions fester and critical information about inmate health gets lost. It's also a place where 13 people have died since 2002.

A northern Saskatchewan First Nation dealing with a spate of COVID-19 cases in the area is threatening members who hold house parties with eviction and the loss of their utilities.

The number of claimants in a class action lawsuit against the Missionary Oblates has grown from 30 alleged victims of sexual abuse, to 190 Indigenous and non-Indigenous claimants.

Join us on CBC Newfoundland and Labrador’s Facebook page on Tuesday for a live conversation about the history of residential schools in this province with Andrea Procter and Kayla Burry.

The wampum belt was taken as a spoil of war after the death of Wampanoag leader Metacom, also known as King Philip. Its whereabouts remain a mystery.

The coroner’s inquest into death of a Gjoa Haven man in 2016 police shooting has been postponed until next year, along with a host of other services under Nunavut’s justice department.

The chief and council of the First Nation with the most enduring boil water advisory in the country is calling for the immediate resignation of Indigenous Services Canada's top Ontario bureaucrat, citing an irrevocable loss of trust.

Lawyers for Maxwell Johnson have released the transcript of a 911 call and a redacted Vancouver police report that they say show evidence of systemic racism after Johnson and his granddaughter were arrested in December while trying to open a bank account.

Environmental groups say a new ban on a highly polluting shipping fuel in Arctic waters is full of gaps and Canada should not make use of loopholes in the new regulations for heavy fuel oil.

The Athabasca Health Authority says people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 — including some who are experiencing symptoms — in Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation have refused to get tested.

On Nov. 13, Enoch Cree Nation and the federal government reached an agreement for $91 million to cover trauma endured by people who lived nearby, future cleanup of the land and lost income from a golf course, which closed in 2014 for safety reasons.

Formerly in government care, Wyonna Batoche is now a youth worker at Sk'ai Zeh Yah Youth Centre operated by Carrier Sekani Family Services. She says she feels proud of offering young people a safe space in the new facility.

Staff at a nursing home in Wikwemikong, Ont., are finding creative ways to lift the spirits of elders during the coronavirus pandemic, including simulating memories of hunting, with nerf guns.

Fred Sasakamoose, one of the first Indigenous athletes to play in the National Hockey League, was hospitalized as a "presumed" positive COVID-19 case.