Minister says end of Liberal-NDP alliance unlikely to impact Indigenous issues | CBC News

Minister says end of Liberal-NDP alliance unlikely to impact Indigenous issues | CBC News

Will the end of the Liberal-NDP alliance make for a feistier partisan atmosphere on Indigenous issues in the House of Commons this fall? Gary Anandasangaree doesn’t think so. “I like to think that reconciliation is a non-partisan issue,” said the Liberal minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations in a sit-down interview this week on Parliament Hill in…

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Tribunal urges First Nations, feds to ‘leave their conflicts aside’ on Jordan’s Principle issues | CBC News

Tribunal urges First Nations, feds to ‘leave their conflicts aside’ on Jordan’s Principle issues | CBC News

Come together for the children’s sake.  That was the blunt message the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal gave the federal government and First Nations organizations as the latest hearing in a complex, 17-year-old human rights complaint concluded Thursday in Ottawa. “I believe that the collective work of everyone has moved Canada in the right direction,” said…

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Crown seeks closed-door hearings for lawsuit claiming feds contributed to Canadian’s torture | CBC News

Crown seeks closed-door hearings for lawsuit claiming feds contributed to Canadian’s torture | CBC News

After years of delays, a Canadian man’s lawsuit accusing the federal government of contributing to his detention and torture abroad is finally going before a court this fall. But before the case can proceed, a judge needs to decide if intelligence officials can testify behind closed doors. Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested during a 2003 visit to…

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