Air Canada issues apology after placing Assembly of First Nations National Chief headdress in cargo hold

 By Turtle Island News and CP The federal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is calling on Air Canada to “make things right” with the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, who said her headdress was removed from an airplane cabin during a flight this week. Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, who leads the advocacy organization, said in a social-media post Thursday her headdress and its case were taken away and put in a garbage bag. She said the incident left her with hurt feelings, and Air Canada needs a protocol for First Nations peoples so they are not “harassed” when carrying sacred items. “If I get kicked off the flight today, then I will because I won’t be letting them take my headdress or case away from me again,” she wrote….

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