Karyn Pugliese is joined by chair of the First Nations Financial Management Board Harold Calla on Nation to Nation to discuss what First Nation leaders should demand at their First Ministers meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in the fall.

To Calla, economic reconciliation means First Nations should be treated as governments with power to shape economic decisions that affect their lands ahead of those decisions already being made.

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With the new Liberal majority, they can now push through legislation. However, AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse hopes that actually means finally moving on long overdue laws and protections for First Nations.

From clean water legislation, the second-generation cut-off in the Indian Act and the federal-provincial-territorial First Ministers meeting, there is a lot that must be done with this new majority.

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Economic reconciliation is moving from an abstract idea to a practical question of how to make it real, as Prime Minister Mark Carney places economic growth, energy development, infrastructure, critical minerals, and northern expansion at the centre of his agenda.

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Although the government has announced funding for emergency management for First Nations, the $55.6 million dedicated to emergency floods, wildfires and more is a far cry to what was spent in previous years.

CEO of the Indigenous Reconciliation Group and a columnist at the Hill Times Rose LeMay joins host Karyn Pugliese to talk about the funding and how the Liberal party is now one seat away of having a majority government.

Also on the show, CBC Indigenous journalist Brett Forester uncovered declassified documents showing that Indigenous groups and leaders were being spied on by the RCMP in the 1970s.

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The head of the Chiefs of Ontario says the organization is eager to move ahead on an $8.5 billion agreement on long-term reform in First Nations child welfare after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal approved a deal with the federal government on Monday.

Host Fraser Needham chats with guests about the $8.5 billion deal, new NDP Leader Avi Lewis and the new head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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An Ottawa reporter who covers Indigenous affairs on Parliament Hill weighs in on Prime Minister Mark Carney's first year in office.

Host Fraser Needham chats with guests on what the prime minister has or has not done yet in office, including talking about the proposed second-generation cut off to the Indian Act.

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MP Lori Idlout says she believes she can have more influence within the government instead of from the outside looking in.

Idlout felt frustrated being a part of an opposition party that severely lacked resources due to the loss of caucus funding after the NDP were reduced to low seat numbers in the House of Commons.

She joined host Fraser Needham to talk about her decision to join the Liberal Party.

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Cindy Blackstock, the head of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society says the federal government's funding commitment for Jordan's Principle misses the mark.

$1.55 billion in new funding for the program was announced and is supposed to see it through to the end of March of 2027.

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Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler says residents of Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario are reaching a breaking point after being evacuated from their homes for close to two months due to a water crisis.

The community has been without access to safe drinking water since early January after their water treatment system broke down.

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Indigenous communities are at the forefront of anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, not only in solidarity with immigrant neighbours, but because other Native Americans are being detained as well.

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