Our lead story: the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) is in turmoil, laying off half its staff amid allegations of a toxic workplace.

Our lead story: denied the opportunity to run for council because she resides outside her First Nation’s boundaries, Vuntut Gwitchin member Cindy Dickson’s five-year fight finally reaches Canada’s highest court.

Our lead story: the federal government says it's set aside $15 million to reimburse Indigenous governments and organizations in the Northwest Territories which spent their own funds to help evacuees during last year’s wildfire season.

Our lead story: five former chiefs of Kitcisakik First Nation go to Ottawa to jointly ask the Indigenous Services Canada minister to intervene in a band council situation the ex-chiefs claim is dysfunctional.

Our lead story: the Manitoba government agrees to a $530 million class action settlement concerning children in its child welfare system—the bulk of them Indigenous—from whom it held back federal children's special allowances (CSAs) between 2004 and 2019.

Our lead story: after more than a year of pleas and protests in Manitoba, $40 million in funding—half federal, half provincial—is announced for a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for Indigenous women’s remains.

Our lead story: the president of Nunatukavut Community Council (NCC) appears in federal court yesterday to defend their memorandum of understanding with the federal government, an MOU critics want quashed on the grounds the NCC’s 6,000 southern Labrador members are allegedly not Inuit.

Our lead story: in the wake of DFO’s decision earlier this month to close the lucrative elvers (baby eels) fishery, the topic of how to prevent violence and poaching arises at the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans this week.

Our lead story: federal Auditor General Karen Hogan releases reports on First Nations housing and policing and, to almost no one’s surprise, assigns the federal government failing grades in both cases. 

Our lead story: the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations calls out school leaders in Coronach SK for alleged racism and bullying after a family shares the story of their 10-year-old son's years of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual abuse by classmates.