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The resignations came roughly one week after Pallister criticized protesters who had toppled statues of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria on the legislature grounds. Pallister said people who came to Canada, both before and after it was a country, came not to destroy anything but to build communities, churches and businesses. His comments were criticized by Indigenous leaders as minimizing the harmful effects of colonialism. Pallister defended his comments, saying he never mentioned colonialism and instead meant to get across the idea that Indigenous and non-Indigenous people often worked to...

  VANCOUVER -- Two Indigenous leaders are calling for an end to church burning, including an assistant Pentecostal minister. The call comes after several Christian churches in B.C. were burnedto the ground over a period of two weeks. Although it remains unclear who is responsible, some have speculated that the fires are retaliatory following the confirmation of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools, which themselves were run by various churches. “I'm a 60s Scoop survivor and the daughter of a residential school survivor,” said Jenn Allan-Riley, assistant minister ...

Two Indigenous deaths in custody Two Aboriginal people have died in Australian prisons in less than 24 hours, including one man found unresponsive in his cell today. Crime by Rhiannon Tuffield 27th Apr 2021 7:08 PM Two Aboriginal people have died in Australian prisons in less than 24 hours, as authorities investigate the circumstances. A man, 37, died at the Cessnock Correctional Centre on Tuesday morning, after being found unresponsive in his cell about 10am, a Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman confirmed. "He was found...

New Mexico tribes sue US over federal clean water rule By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANApril 1, 2021 GMT FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2009, file photo is the highway leading to Jemez Pueblo, N.M. Two Indigenous communities in New Mexico are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a revised federal rule that lifts protections for many streams, creeks and wetlands across the nation. The pueblos of Jemez and Laguna are the latest to raise concerns over inadequate protections for local water sources in the desert Southwest. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File) FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2009, file phot...

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