Community News
RCMP's National Operational Overview on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women available online
May 16, 2014 - 9:20pm | by brianbeatonAFN Press Release
May 16, 2014
Assembly of First Nations Receives RCMP Report, Urges Action on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Minister of AANDC attacks First Nation chiefs in parliament creating confrontation over education
May 15, 2014 - 10:42pm | by brianbeatonValcourt attacks Confederacy of Nations, calls chiefs 'rogue' and threats to national security
16. MAY, 2014 - By Jorge Barrera
First Nations challenging government's assimilation agenda to eliminate rights and treaties
May 14, 2014 - 9:41am | by brianbeatonWestern medical system believes their ways are better than traditional medicines
May 14, 2014 - 9:06am | by brianbeatonLittle has improved for Canada's First Nation communities in ten years, UN Rapporteur's report shows
May 13, 2014 - 7:20am | by brianbeaton"the federal Government frequently uses a discourse of responsibility to Canadian taxpayers for the cost of First Nations treaty benefits, without a corresponding acknowledgment of the vast economic benefits that have accrued to non-indigenous Canadians as a result of the constitutional treaty relationships that provided them with access to the national territory.
National day of resistance on May 14 calling for an inquiry in the missing and murdered Indigenous women
May 12, 2014 - 6:59pm | by brianbeatonCOO press release
ONTARIO REGIONAL CHIEF NOT SUPRISED BY "CRISIS SITUATION" as described by the UNITED NATIONS REPORT ON THE STATE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN CANADA
UN report on Canada's treatment of aboriginal people made public today
May 11, 2014 - 8:25am | by brianbeatonFor the full text of the report visit http://unsr.jamesanaya.org/docs/countries/2014-report-canada-a-hrc-27-52-add-2-en-auversion.pdf
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AFN Press Release
Assembly of First Nations Welcomes UN Special Rapporteur Report, Calls on Canada to Work with Indigenous Peoples to Implement Recommendations
Assembly of First Nations to be run by executive until new leader elected in fall
May 10, 2014 - 8:18am | by brianbeatonAssembly of First Nations to be run by executive until new leader elected
AFN will hold a special chiefs assembly to discuss the First Nation education bill later this month
Posted: May 06, 2014
Understanding another way that social media is being abused by government and business
May 10, 2014 - 8:07am | by brianbeatonChallenging First Nation youth through education to prepare for the jobs and opportunities
May 10, 2014 - 8:01am | by brianbeatonThe jobs dilemma for aboriginal youth: Don Pittis
Lack of education holding back job-seekers, even at aboriginal-run businesses
By Don Pittis, May 09, 2014
