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EDMONTON — Hundreds of residents forced to flee a remote northern Alberta community seven days ago can now apply for emergency payments from the provincial government.

OTTAWA — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is urging Manitoba's lieutenant-governor to establish an independent inquiry into the killings of four Indigenous women in the province.

An 11-year-old Indigenous boy who died after being tortured by the extended family members approved to be his caregivers was failed in a myriad of ways, a report by British Columbia's representative for children and youth shows.

SADDLE LAKE, ALTA. — The RCMP is asking for the public's help after a fire in Alberta destroyed a trailer being used for residential school investigative work.

HALIFAX — British Columbia’s premier says he wants to support Newfoundland and Labrador’s plans to sue Ottawa over the federal equalization program, which transfers money from wealthier provinces to poorer ones, calling the current formula "completel

WHITECAP DAKOTA FIRST NATION, SASKATCHEWAN — Canada's Crown-Indigenous relations minister has apologized to nine First Nations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan following decades of the Dakota and Lakota being labelled as refugees.

CROSS LAKE, MAN. — Two people are dead after a house fire on a First Nation in northern Manitoba. RCMP say they responded to a fire on Cross Lake Cree Nation early Saturday.

British Columbia's wildfire service says crews are battling a 10-hectare blaze in a park that protects a portion of what the province calls the "only inland temperate rainforest in the world," with trees 1,000 years old.

VICTORIA — Members of the Heiltsuk Nation on British Columbia's central coast are celebrating the first steps in the repatriation process for an elaborately carved chief's seat.

TORONTO — Ontario's mining law and its system for registering mining claims have allowed thousands of claims to be staked on a northwestern First Nation without consultation or consent, the community alleges in a constitutional challenge announced Fr