The Métis Nation of Ontario was in court Tuesday urging a judge to dismiss a challenge to the group’s self-government agreement with Canada, which a First Nations tribal council rejects as “colonization 2.0” and “an existential threat” to their rights.
Manitoba’s political parties are not doing enough to make sure candidates’ claims to Indigeneity are legitimate, says Jean Teillet, a lawyer who was appointed as an independent investigator by the University of Saskatchewan to figure out how to prevent Indigenous identity fraud.