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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