CANADA

A social media app geared toward the outdoor lives of Inuit launched Wednesday with features that tie traditional knowledge to smartphone technology. 

While most schools across the country begin their days with the singing of the national anthem in English or French, some students in southwestern Ontario are learning the anthem a different way. 

The Liberal government will lay out its priorities for its second term in office in the throne speech today — a chance for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reboot his government after voters reduced it to a minority in the last election campaign.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says Ottawa has failed to work with First Nations to prepare for a new Indigenous child welfare law coming into force Jan. 1, 2020, according to a letter sent to Indigenous Services Marc Miller Wednesday.

Canada's Indigenous Services Minister has pledged to financially support suicide prevention strategies for First Nations communities. The Assembly of First Nations plans to draft a national strategy, while First Nations in Saskatchewan say they're ready to roll out an existing strategy once they get money.

One woman in Six Nations of the Grand River says there's a severe lack of Indigenous representation in most stock imagery available online, and she's excited to now work for a company that's building its own image library for community use — "it gives people a chance to see who we really are."

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said Wednesday that Ottawa is moving forward with proposed legislation on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). 

Cassidy Bernard’s family is feeling hopeful after the father of her young twin daughters was charged with second-degree murder more than a year after her death.

Every Albertan should play a role in advancing the calls to justice that came out of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, said its former chief commissioner, Marion Buller.

A mother of three foster children says she wasn't told their personal information could be at risk until a week after a cyberattack on the child welfare authority responsible for them.

An eyewitness says when he tried to help fight the fire, there was no water available for the fire truck to use.

From memes to paintings and beaded pieces, Baby Yoda from the new Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian, has been popping up all over Indigenous social media.

The Nechi Institute will have to find a new home since the Alberta government is terminating its lease at Poundmaker's Lodge as of March 31, 2020.

Multiple Manitoba Indigenous communities are mulling a move to take authority over their child welfare systems when a federal law takes effect next month, even as leaders voice concerns about uncertainty surrounding the process. 

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the government has begun to lay the groundwork to compensate First Nations children harmed by the on-reserve child welfare system. 

The Hours That Remain is about the struggles families endure after an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing — struggles often suffered in silence.

Dwight Austin Isadore, 20, of Wagmatcook First Nation in Cape Breton is also facing charges of abandoning a child. 

Despite its gushing declarations of support for Indigenous people, the government is defying an order to compensate thousands of families for discrimination.

First Nations would need about $3.5 billion in funding over five years to effectively take over responsibility for child welfare services as they will be able to do under a new law that comes into force on Jan. 1, says Manitoba's Assembly of First Nations regional chief.

Trans Mountain Corp. is preparing to officially start construction on its pipeline expansion after years of delay.