‘A journey with a clear destination’
Shawn Atleo, chief of the Assembly of First Nations, says it’s time to move toward scrapping the Indian Act and dumping the recently renamed Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Here is his speech to...
View ArticleIn conversation: Shawn Atleo
Photograph by Simon Hayter AFTER TWO YEARS as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Shawn Atleo is cautiously optimistic about the relationship he is forging with Prime Minister Stephen...
View ArticleJack Layton 1950-2011
A statement issued this morning by the family of NDP leader Jack Layton. We deeply regret to inform you that The Honourable Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, passed away at...
View ArticleA hundred communities like this?
Peter Mansbridge talks to Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo about Attawapiskat. The post A hundred communities like this? appeared first on Macleans.ca.
View Article‘We need and want Canada to work with us’
The prepared text for remarks made today by Shawn Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations. We are gathered here on an historic day – an historic day in the midst of urgent needs and...
View ArticleThe Commons: Shawn Atleo at the fork in the road
CP/Sean Kilpatrick “We have arrived at a moment unlike any other in the history of our peoples,” ventured Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations. And yet, here we are...
View ArticleIs Friday’s meeting going to happen?
Reports vary as to who might or might not be participating in tomorrow’s planned meeting between the Harper government and First Nations leaders, if that meeting is to take place in some form or...
View ArticleThe meeting goes on
The AFN confirms that National Chief Shawn Atleo and approximately 20 First Nations leaders—including representatives from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec,...
View ArticleThe AFN’s demands
The Assembly of First Nations has released a statement and eight “items of consensus.” The statement can be viewed here. The demands are as follows. Emerging from First Nations dialogue and strategy...
View Article‘We have achieved some movement’
The Assembly of First Nations has released its reaction to today’s meeting. “We have achieved some movement today,” said National Chief Atleo. “The Prime Minister listened respectfully to Chiefs and...
View ArticleThe trials of Shawn Atleo
APTN details the chatter about Shawn Atleo’s health and leadership and the Globe looks at the possibility of a non-confidence vote, while Tim Harper reports on threats and infighting. As he rode to a...
View ArticleWhat is the Governor General expected to do?
Theresa Spence repeats her demand that the Governor General be involved in a meeting between the Prime Minister and First Nations leaders. And the Assembly of First Nations are apparently going to...
View ArticleChiefs issue new request to meet Harper, but no evidence PM will agree
OTTAWA – Top First Nations chiefs from across the country have set aside their differences for now and signed on to a request for yet another meeting with the prime minister — all in an attempt to...
View ArticleBernard Valcourt: A street fighter heads back to the streets
Photograph by Blair Gable Bernard Valcourt occupies one of the most sensitive positions in the federal government, but you wouldn’t know it from listening to him. As minister for Aboriginal affairs and...
View Article‘We have to have change': Q&A with Perry Bellegarde
AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde speaks at a news conference in Ottawa on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 following the National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. (Adrian Wyld/CP)...
View ArticlePerry Bellegarde on what comes next
Fred Cattroll Even as Justin Trudeau makes acting on First Nations’ issues a priority for his new government, the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations has a surprising warning for him: talk...
View ArticleIndigenous leaders pay tribute to Gord Downie
Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde looks on as Lakota Sioux Donnie Speidel (left) honours singer Gord Downie with an eagle feather and name at the AFN Special Chiefs assembly in Gatineau,...
View ArticlePipeline debate grips AFN meeting
GATINEAU, Que. – A First Nations leader from northern Alberta is urging his fellow chiefs to resist buying into the arguments of environmentalists opposed to pipeline projects and the oilsands. Fort...
View ArticleOutgoing AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde on a decade of progress
Perry Bellegarde has been involved in Indigenous politics since 1986. In July, that long run will come to an end: after seven years as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), the...
View ArticleOutgoing AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde on a decade of progress
Perry Bellegarde has been involved in Indigenous politics since 1986. In July, that long run will come to an end: after seven years as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), the...
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