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OTTAWA — Canada has told the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal it can't say when it will work through a backlog of some 140,000 cases related to First Nations child services.

OTTAWA — A legal review commissioned by the Assembly of First Nations is warning a $47.8-billion deal to reform the First Nations child welfare system could be moot if there's a change in government in the upcoming year.

VANCOUVER — The Tsilhqot’in National Government in British Columbia says it has formed a "historic partnership" with the federal Fisheries Department to develop a permanent salmon conservation hatchery in its territory.

OTTAWA — Parliament has approved $21.6 billion in government spending, in a late Tuesday vote in the House of Commons.

EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after an Indigenous man's braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The chief executive of the North West Co. Inc.

The Canadian winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physics is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars from his winnings into a small Ontario-based organization.

TORONTO — A First Nation police force in northern Ontario will become an essential service as it opts into provincial legislation governing police boards.

HALIFAX — Fishers raised questions today about how federal enforcement officers will cope if a proposal to increase the number of people licensed to net baby eels in the Maritimes goes ahead next year.

OTTAWA — The Assembly of First Nations says the ongoing postal strike is delaying supplies of medicine and other necessities to rural and remote communities.