Our lead story: new numbers on homicide rates from Statistics Canada show Indigenous people continued to be disproportionately represented as victims as of 2023.

Our lead story: with frustration mounting over a growing backlog of Jordan’s Principle requests—140,000 in all, 25,000 of which were submitted as urgent—Indigenous Services Canada says it cannot offer a timeline for addressing the situation.

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Our lead story: after a bill restricting the use of solitary confinement within federal prisons passes in the Canadian Senate, proponents are hopeful the House of Commons will make it law.

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Our lead story: an encampment set up near a Winnipeg-area landfill after police chose not to search it for the remains of two First Nations women is set to come down.

Our lead story: nearly a week after a bar fight hospitalizes the Southern Chiefs Organization's grand chief in Ottawa, a First Nation in Manitoba states they’ll minimize their participation in SCO until they receive “adequate information about the conduct and status of the grand chief.”

Our lead story: the Southern Chiefs Organization continues to stay mum on why SCO leader Jerry Daniels had to be hospitalized last week following a reported altercation outside an Ottawa bar, just hours before the start of an AFN Special Chiefs Assembly.

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Our lead story: Southern Chiefs Organization grand chief Jerry Daniels may or may not still be in hospital following a fight outside a downtown Ottawa bar earlier this week.

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Our lead story: chiefs unanimously pass an Assembly of First Nations motion this week calling for a federal inquiry into the recent spate of police killings of Indigenous people over recent months.

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Our lead story: some Innu in Quebec are hopeful that a recent Supreme Court decision will finally see greater investments made in what have been chronically-underfunded First Nations police services.

Our lead story: the physical search of a privately-owned landfill just outside Winnipeg is now underway, roughly two years after families of two women learned that’s likely where their remains ended up.