Justice system report slams Alberta for hiding Indigenous incarceration rates

By Geordon Omand, The Canadian Press, March 5, 2018

The government of Alberta is being lambasted in a review of Canada’s justice system as the only province to keep secret the number of Indigenous people it has locked up over the last five years.

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Province apologizes after wildlife officers seize fish from northern Alberta Métis camp

A video still showing Alberta Fish and Wildlife officers seizing fish from a Métis camp outside Conklin, just south of Fort McMurray. (Roxy Power/ Submitted)

‘We will take steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again,’ Indigenous Relations Minister says

By David Thurton , CBC News, September 16, 2017

The Alberta government has apologized to a northern Alberta Métis community after wildlife officers confiscated 25 fish from a camp near Christina Lake on Friday.

“This was an unfortunate circumstance,” Indigenous Relations Minister Richard Feehan said in a media release Saturday.

Harper visits Blood rez; women forcibly removed for “Tweeting”

On February 7, 2014, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit to the Blood reservation’s Kainai High School in Standoff, near Calgary, Alberta, where he announced a “historic” agreement with the Assembly of First Nations on a revised First Nations Education Act.  But not before at least two Native women were forcibly removed by police, at least one for allegedly “Tweeting.”