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Flag of the Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan.
APTN National News, September 19, 2017
The RCMP has confirmed to APTN National News that it has launched an investigation on Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan after two elders came forward providing a stack of financial documents. Read the rest of this entry
Eddie Erasmus is the current Grand Chief of the Tlicho government. The post is up for election in September. (CBC)
Election day to choose next Grand Chief will be Sept. 11
By Richard Gleeson, CBC News, August 2, 2017
A job that’s just about to come up for competition — the Grand Chief of the Tlicho — is now one of the highest paid elected positions in the N.W.T.
Salary and per diem increases that the Tlicho assembly approved in April at the end of the last Tlicho assembly came into effect on Tuesday. After the increases, the Grand Chief now gets paid just over $200,000 annually, about $20,000 more than the N.W.T. premier. Read the rest of this entry
Onion Lake First Nation chief Wallace Fox. Photo: Global News.
APTN National News, July 5, 2017
The Onion Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan is appealing a June court ruling ordering it to release financial information to its band members.
The case was brought by Charmaine Stick, who partnered with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in 2016 to force the band to comply with the First Nations Financial Transparency Act – a law passed by the Stephen Harper Conservatives requiring First Nations to publish salaries and expenses online. Read the rest of this entry
Algonquins of Barriere Lake hold protest in Ottawa, 2010
By Shiri Pasternak, APTN National News, May 27, 2017
Before the axe dramatically fell on Barriere Lake’s customary government in August 2010, there were many forewarnings that the customary band’s days were numbered.
As early as 1995, during the first leadership crisis with the IBC, the Department of Indian Affairs debated imposing Section 74 of the Indian Act onto the community as an exit strategy to the Trilateral Agreement. In March 2008, an internal report summarizing impact scenarios of Ratt council recognition over the Nottaway council also offered the possibility of not recognizing both councils and instead imposing Section 74 on the community. Read the rest of this entry
Former Alexander First Nation chief Herbert Arcand, a current councillor and band administrator are being sued by band members for alleged “illegal” financial activities. (Supplied)
Three band members are suing their former chief, a current councillor and an adminstrator
By Andrea Huncar, CBC News, January 13, 2017
Three band members of the Alexander First Nation northwest of Edmonton are suing their former chief, a current councillor and a band employee for alleged conflict of interest and “illegal and improper” financial dealings. Read the rest of this entry
Onion Lake First Nation chief Wallace Fox. Photo: Global News.
My Lloydminster Now, October 20, 2016
Chief Wallace Fox has pleaded guilty to one charge of assault.
Fox, who appeared with his lawyer, Robert Hladun, in Saskatchewan-side court in Lloydminster today, was previously charged in 2015 with two counts of assault, one count of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose related to the use of a knife, and one count of uttering threats to damage property. Read the rest of this entry
By Cam Fortems, Kamloops This Week, October 13, 2016
‘The funding that the government gives us … it’s not reaching the real grassroots people who are suffering’
By Andrea Huncar, CBC News, October 14, 2016
Members of another First Nation in Alberta are demanding a forensic investigation into the spending of federal money by its chief and council.
The call for an audit at the Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacis just south of Edmonton comes just weeks after CBC News reported on an audit at Alexander First Nation that identified $2.1 million in unexplained payments by a former chief and staff. Read the rest of this entry
Ben Crow Chief outside court.
Ben Crow Chief says band members were not consulted before post-flood rebuild began
By Meghan Grant, CBC News, October 7, 2016
After living in a teepee on the Siksika Nation for nearly a year, Ben Crow Chief appeared in a Calgary courtroom on Friday afternoon, arguing he should be allowed to continue his blockade protest.
“Using the courts to take down my teepee is not our way of life,” said Crow Chief. “We’re tired of being stolen from, we’re tired of being lied to.” Read the rest of this entry
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