Nation to Nation

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 d...

Karyn Pugliese is joined by chair of the First Nations Financial Management Board Harold Calla on Nation to Nation to discuss what First Nation leaders should demand at their First Ministers meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in the fall.

To Calla, economic reconciliation means First Na...

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...

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.

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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 Le...

The head of the Chiefs of Ontario says the organization is eager to move ahead on an $8.5 billion agreement on long-term reform in First Nations child welfare after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal approved a deal with the federal government on Monday.

Host Fraser Needham chats with guests about the $8.5 billion deal, new NDP Leader Avi Lewis and the new head of the U.S. Department of Hom...

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 o...

MP Lori Idlout says she believes she can have more influence within the government instead of from the outside looking in.

Idlout felt frustrated being a part of an opposition party that severely lacked resources due to the loss of caucus funding after the NDP were reduced to low seat number...

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.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler says residents of Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario are reaching a breaking point after being evacuated from their homes for close to two months due to a water crisis.

The community has been without access to safe drinking water sinc...

Indigenous communities are at the forefront of anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, not only in solidarity with immigrant neighbours, but because other Native Americans are being detained as well.

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As democratic institutions face pressure in the United States, some are pointing to Russia as a warning.

After a brief democratic opening, freedoms were rolled back when Vladimir Putin took power in 1999. Free press does not exist. Indigenous climate activist Daria Egereva was jailed after s...

Greenland, an Inuit-majority territory that has spent decades slowly pushing toward greater self-determination, suddenly found itself pulled back into the centre of great-power politics.

For years, the territory — which is formally part of the Kingdom of Denmark — has been navigating a careful process of decolonization.

That trajectory is now under pressure because of the constant talk from U.S. President Donald Trump a...

Chiefs from across the country are proposing that the federal government be removed from having control over how the on-reserve First Nations child welfare system is run.

The details are contained in a plan that was submitted by the National Chiefs' Children's Committee to the Canadian Human...

APTN's reporter in Iqaluit says U.S. President Donald Trump's continued threats to annex Greenland is having a direct effect on the people of Nunavut.

Aside from proximity, Greenland and Nunavut are both northern and remote territories that have small populations, the majority of which are I...

As Nation to Nation looks ahead to 2026, flashpoints are forming in Indigenous–Crown politics.

Long‑delayed drinking water legislation is ...

On this episode of Nation to Nation, three journalists who've spent the year covering Indigenous–federal politics sat down for a blunt look at where things stand.

The verdict? Canada may have entered a post-reconciliation era and the cracks are starting to show.

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