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After more than a decade, the Manitoba Indigenous Summer Games are returning this July and August.

Inky black shards of volcanic glass unearthed in Alberta are helping researchers trace the movements of Indigenous people across Western Canada centuries ago. 

First Nations leaders in northern Ontario are pushing back against American and Canadian tariffs, arguing that these trade barriers ignore their treaty rights and centuries-old trade routes. 

The 140th anniversary of the Frog Lake Massacre will be commemorated this weekend in St. Paul, Alta., and Cree storytellers will tell their community's involvement in one of the pivotal events of the Northwest Resistance. 

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Only a handful of Wabanaki artists in recent years have mastered hand-carving wooden masks, but now eight emerging Mi'kmaw artists from Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick are following in their footsteps.

Grab those solar glasses, eastern Canada: You're in for a partial solar eclipse on Saturday morning.

The full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Canada is top of mind for some First Nations leaders in B.C. as federal election campaigns are underway. 

The Cure is a CBC News series examining strategies provinces and territories are using to tackle the primary care crisis.

U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land the first woman and first person of colour on the lunar surface from several of its web pages, citing Trump. 

The spring equinox has just passed, but Cutcha Risling Baldy's summer schedule is already looking jam-packed, as youth from her Hupa community prepare to celebrate something their tween peers may be apprehensive about or even avoid discussing: their first period.

Wietske Flor goes through every day wondering when the next seizure will hit. 

On Sable Island, a thin crescent-shaped sandbar in the Atlantic Ocean, the shifting landscapes make for dazzling — and jarring — experiences.

Chris Lemons says the day of the accident that would nearly claim his life started like any other.

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Indigenous faculty are calling on York University to reverse its decision to suspend enrolment in 18 degree programs in the fall of 2025, including Indigenous studies, gender and women's studies and environmental biology.

Purging our world of microplastics requires change at the government level. But until that happens, here are some things individuals can do to make a difference.

Family, friends and colleagues are mourning the loss of a language teacher who had a big impact in Haudenosaunee communities and beyond.

Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been infected. Now, birds are flying our way for the spring migration season.

As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get their land legs back on Earth, the effects of being stranded in space for nine months — and their recovery — will give scientists a chance to improve preparations for eventual, and even longer, space flights, say experts.

In the middle of an active volcano at the bottom of the world, dozens of fur seals bask in blowing wet snow. They are mostly unfussed by their two-legged guests. 

WARNING: This story contains discussion of suicide. 

A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) early Sunday in a NASA crew-swap mission that will allow a pair of stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to return home after nine months on the orbiting lab.

While a national organization seeks to track cases of forced sterilization of Indigenous peoples across Canada, Inuit women in the North say the practice hasn't ended. 

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Keeseekoose First Nation invited financial advisors from a nearby bank to give a workshop to members earlier this month in advance of the community's treaty agricultural benefits settlement.

If you're a fan of our night sky here on Earth and its singular moon, then you'd probably really, really love the view from Saturn.

Dr. Alex Wong vividly remembers the night, five years ago, when he read modelling data about the potential surge of COVID-19 positive patients in Saskatchewan. His kids were sleeping peacefully, unaware of what was coming.

Felice Gladue has a deep passion for sharing her Métis culture with children, but she says for a brief time, her own kids were her toughest audience. 

This week, robed in twilight, a "blood worm" will pierce the night sky. As ominous as that sounds, don't think leeches — think lunar.

Derek Illman of London, Ont., is a fitness fanatic and a self-proclaimed "podcast junkie." 

Through laughter, Lori Brem tells the story of the meeting that brought her brother Jonathan Hooker, a New Zealand resident, and her Uncle Darryl Flett from northern Manitoba together for the first time. 

For over 30 years, Reuben Flowers has been documenting the changes unfolding in the North. 

Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of her Canadian music awards. 

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but it lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.

With the Liberal Party of Canada poised to choose its new leader this weekend, some say the party under Trudeau gave more attention to Indigenous issues than previous governments. 

A fluttering butterfly makes most people smile with delight — a reaction that makes them special among insects.

In a small auditorium at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, about a half-dozen cancer patients sit, getting tips on how to deal with hair loss during chemotherapy. It's not an unusual workshop for cancer patients — except that every patient in the room is under 40.

Charles Racette was arranging his father's funeral when he learned his father was not considered a member of Little Black Bear First Nation.

Measles is a respiratory disease caused by a highly contagious virus that's more infectious than influenza, chickenpox or COVID-19.

The chief of the only First Nation to fully own a mining company in Manitoba says he wants the provincial and federal governments to recognize his community's role in boosting critical mineral exploration as a global race to secure those materials heats up.

WARNING: This story mentions suicide.

The chief of the only First Nation to fully own a mining company in Manitoba says he wants the provincial and federal governments to recognize his community's role in boosting critical mineral exploration as a global race to secure those materials heats up.

A new documentary available free on YouTube celebrates a Great Lakes industry that the filmmaker says often flies under the radar, even among those who live on the lakes.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero, after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a collision with this space rock about 40 to 90 metres wide.

Palliative care has an image problem.