3-Million-dollar emergency funding cheque presented to Paddle Prairie Metis Settle See official release here For immediate release 3-Million-dollar emergency funding cheque to be presented to Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement Edmonton, AB – July 3, 2019 On May 29, 2019 the residents of Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement were evacuated from their home community due to air…
Eight Alberta Métis communities, many surrounded by and involved with oil sands production, are sounding the environmental alarm and demanding nation-to-nation treatment before the Trans Mountain expansion project moves ahead. Métis landholders say they’ve been shut out of Trudeau’s TMX consultations
Metis Settlements General Council April 2, 2019 NOTICE TO: BUFFALO LAKE METIS SETTLEMENT COUNCIL and the Members of BUFFALO LAKE METIS SETTLEMENT; EAST PRAIRIE METIS SETTLEMENT COUNCIL and the Members of EAST PRAIRIE METIS SETTLEMENT; ELIZABETH METIS SETTLEMENT COUNCIL and the Members of ELIZABETH METIS SETTLEMENT; FISHING LAKE METIS SETTLEMENT COUNCIL and the Members of…
For Immediate Release Edmonton, AB – March 14, 2019, Gerald Cunningham President of the Metis Settlements General Council, Darren Calliou – Vice President, Metis Settlements General Council, the Honourable Shannon Phillips, Minister of Alberta Environment and Parks, and the Honourable Richard Feehan, Minister of Indigenous Relations signed the Metis Settlements General Council – Government of…
December 17, 2018 Ottawa, ON (TBC) Together, Canada and the Métis are working towards a renewed relationship, based on recognition of rights, respect, co-operation and partnership. As we build this new future, reconciliation requires that we acknowledge the wrongs of the past and work collaboratively to respectfully resolve them. Today, the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister…
On Friday, July 13 a crew of firefighters from the East Prairie Metis Settlement were deployed to Quebec, where more than 60 wildfires have been burning for the last several days. Firefighters Terrell Laboucan, Glen Giroux, Albert Payou, Brayden Desjarlais, George Tompkins, Jamie Emard, Alex Desjarlais, and Leader – Cory Bellerose, joined over 200 firefighters from…
June 1, 2018 Edmonton, AB – On Monday, May 28th, the Government of Alberta issued an historic apology to the victims and survivors of a policy referred to as the ‘Sixties Scoop.’ The Metis Settlements General Council, on behalf of the Metis Sixties Scoop survivors, thank Premier Rachel Notley for her heartfelt apology for the…
On April 3rd, 2018 the MSGC, following inquiry, was notified that Canada was attending the 17th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York and that there was an opportunity for the MSGC to attend with the Canadian delegation and on behalf of the Metis Settlements. The discussion of this…
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