AFN invites premiers, Carney to ceremony ahead of October meeting

By Alessia Passafiume The Assembly of First Nations has invited premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney to a daylong ceremony ahead of their October meeting. The premiers, Carney and First Nations representatives are set to meet in Ottawa on Oct. 26 — the first such gathering in decades — just as tensions are rising over the federal and provincial governments’ major projects agenda. National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said First Nations leaders want to bring their own cultural practices to that meeting and she hopes all premiers accept the invitation. “We’re taught as First Nations people that ceremony and prayers change things,” Woodhouse Nepinak told The Canadian Press. “One of the most important things for our people is to remember that we’re not just here as humans, but there’s Creator