22 Apr N.W.T. First Nations to get multi-year funding agreements (CBC News)
Some aboriginal groups in the Northwest Territories will be moving to multi-year funding agreements with the federal government starting next year. The move towards longer-term arrangements is part of a major change the federal government is making to its decades-old funding policy. As recently as this week, federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser said the current agreements, in which aboriginal groups receive funding on a year-to-year basis, have hampered some First Nations’ land claim and self-government negotiations with the federal government… go to article