Indigenous Alberta

EDMONTON — Alberta's police watchdog says an Edmonton officer who kicked an Indigenous teen in the head and caused severe injuries will not face charges, despite what it calls a shocking lack of judgment and disregard for life.

SASKATOON — Relatives of an Indigenous man left brain-dead after an altercation with police in Prince Albert, Sask., say he has died.

MELFORT, Sask. — Mounties say the man accused of a deadly mass stabbing in Saskatchewan last year was selling drugs and causing havoc in the days before he drove throughout the First Nation and attacked and killed multiple people.

TORONTO — First Nations across northern Ontario have launched a lawsuit against the province and the federal government over decision-making powers.

REGINA — Mounties are scheduled to give an update Thursday about what happened during a deadly mass stabbing in Saskatchewan last year.

QUEBEC — Two Indigenous groups are going to court over the reforms passed last year to Quebec's French-language law.

VANCOUVER — A First Nation is suing the British Columbia and federal governments and the company behind a railway terminal port in the province's Interior, claiming it wasn't property consulted about the project it says has "desecrated" its ancestral territory. 

SECHELT, B.C. — The shishalh Nation on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast says ground-penetrating radar has identified what are believed to be 40 unmarked graves of children on or near the site of the former St. Augustine's Residential School.

STANDOFF, ALBERTA — A First Nation in southern Alberta says an increase in drug use and overdose deaths has forced it to act in what it calls a life-and-death battle.

VANCOUVER — The Canadian government says it's righting nearly a century of wrongs done to five First Nations in British Columbia by settling historic land claims owed under an 1899 treaty.