A court ruling that granted an Indigenous group rights over some 800 acres of metro Vancouver is causing unease over private-property rights in Canada.

Toronto commemorated Indigenous Veterans Day this weekend, and one organization says the date symbolizes more than remembrance.

VANCOUVER, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A Quebec court has ruled that a C$900 million ($815 million) lawsuit by two Canadian aboriginal communities against a subsidiary of Rio Tinto can proceed. The Innu communities of Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam and Matimekush-Lac John ...

In British Columbia, property rights are in turmoil. The B.C. Supreme Court recently declared that Aboriginal title exists on 800 acres of land in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. Aboriginal title, said the court,

Richmond argued Crown grants of fee simple "extinguished" any Aboriginal title existing over the claim area, while the province said the grants "displaced" title on the private lands, asking Young to limit any declarations to land owned by the parties involved in the litigation — not the third-party homeowners.

Since the 1970's, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-tourban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent two of the most significant shifts in ...

In Canada's British Columbia, the mountainous West Kootenay region forms a rare inland temperate rainforest, where the Sinixt tribe has hunted game, fished for salmon and picked berries for thousands of years.

A recent B.C. Supreme Court decision granting land title in Richmond to the Cowichan Tribes has reignited debate over judicial activism in Canada — and raised serious concerns about the future of private property rights nationwide.

A company that says it is the biggest private landowner in the Cowichan Tribes' Aboriginal title area in Richmond, B.C., says it will ask the British Columbia Supreme Court to take the rare step of reopening the landmark case.

Two days of meetings in British Columbia between provincial officials and First Nations leadership are under way amid tensions over a landmark Aboriginal-title court ruling.