Bill S-2 amendments to end discrimination face critical Senate vote Tuesday
Release Date: 11/28/2025
As Mary Simon leaves Rideau Hall, reconciliation files remain unresolved
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Mary Simon’s time as governor general has come to an end, closing a historic chapter for Rideau Hall, for Indigenous Peoples and Canada. This week, the Nation to Nation journalists’ panel reflected on her time in office and her legacy. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts:
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Auditor General questions why feds don't track progress
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Auditor General of Canada Karen Hogan joins host Karyn Pugliese on this week’s episode of Nation to Nation to discuss what really happened when the federal government moved numerous First Nations to a funding system that provided more autonomy. Also on the show, Conservative MP Billy Morin discusses files he’s been tracking at Indigenous Services Canada; Bill S-2, that seeks the end of the second-generation cut-off to the Indian Act and Jordan’s Principle. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News...
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Harold Calla has a financial warning for First Nations leaders
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AFN national chief warns Liberal Party that a majority means no more excuses
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With the new Liberal majority, they can now push through legislation. However, AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse hopes that actually means finally moving on long overdue laws and protections for First Nations. From clean water legislation, the second-generation cut-off in the Indian Act and the federal-provincial-territorial First Ministers meeting, there is a lot that must be done with this new majority. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts:
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The next test for economic reconciliation is explored at Canada 2020 conference
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Economic reconciliation is moving from an abstract idea to a practical question of how to make it real, as Prime Minister Mark Carney places economic growth, energy development, infrastructure, critical minerals, and northern expansion at the centre of his agenda. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts: https://www.aptnnews.ca/podcasts/
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Emergency preparedness, S-2, and spying on Indigenous leaders
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Although the government has announced funding for emergency management for First Nations, the $55.6 million dedicated to emergency floods, wildfires and more is a far cry to what was spent in previous years. CEO of the Indigenous Reconciliation Group and a columnist at the Hill Times Rose LeMay joins host Karyn Pugliese to talk about the funding and how the Liberal party is now one seat away of having a majority government. Also on the show, CBC Indigenous journalist Brett Forester uncovered declassified documents showing that Indigenous groups and leaders were being spied on by the RCMP in...
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Chiefs of Ontario eager to move forward on First Nations child welfare reform
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Weighing in on Carney’s first year as prime minister
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An Ottawa reporter who covers Indigenous affairs on Parliament Hill weighs in on Prime Minister Mark Carney's first year in office. Host Fraser Needham chats with guests on what the prime minister has or has not done yet in office, including talking about the proposed second-generation cut off to the Indian Act. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts:
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Nunavut MP hopes to have more influence on government side
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Government’s Jordan’s Principle funding doesn’t go far enough
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Cindy Blackstock, the head of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society says the federal government's funding commitment for Jordan’s Principle misses the mark. $1.55 billion in new funding for the program was announced and is supposed to see it through to the end of March of 2027. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts:
info_outlineSweeping changes to Bill S-2 that would eliminate the second-generation cutoff from the Indian Act will face a crucial vote in the Senate on Tuesday.
If the amendments are approved, they will mark a historic step toward ending decades of gender-based discrimination in First Nations status law—but they also risk delaying the bill’s original goal, resolving a Charter challenge.
That’s on this episode of Nation to Nation.
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