ALONE AND COLD: The death of Frank Paul
In 1998, a homeless and intoxicated Canadian Aboriginal man was dragged from a Vancouver police station, and left to die in a nearby laneway in freezing temperatures. More than a decade later, the...
View ArticleInquiry called into missing Aboriginal women
CANADA: First nations groups have called for a separate inquiry into why around 600 Aboriginal women have been murdered or reported missing in the past couple of decades. Young Aboriginal women are...
View ArticleCanadian government slammed for failing to lift Indigenous living standards
CANADA: Conditions on First Nations reserves has worsened over the past decade, with an Auditor General’s report slamming the federal government for failing to fulfil its commitments to improve living...
View ArticleAFN chief calls for re-look at Indian Act
CANADA: The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has called for a move beyond the country’s Indian Act. The Indian Act defines who is an Aboriginal Canadian and deals with local...
View Article100-year-old finishes marathon
CANADA: A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday. CANADA: A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to...
View Article‘National emergency’ shocks Canada into ‘modern legislative change’
CANADA: Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with about 400 Aboriginal chiefs from Ottowa this month following reports of third-world conditions in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat. CANADA:...
View ArticleCanada’s Stolen Generations report released
CANADA: A commission set up to examine a decades-long government policy that required Aboriginal Canadians to attend schools where students were stripped of their cultural identity says that the...
View ArticleCanada probes its Stolen Generations
CANADA: A Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canada’s Stolen Generations – the children who were forced from their families into Residential Schools – has handed down its interim report. CANADA:...
View ArticleCanadians think First Peoples get too much support: Poll
CANADA: Almost two-thirds of Canadians believe Aboriginal people receive too much support from taxpayers, a new survey has found. CANADA: Almost two-thirds of Canadians believe Aboriginal people...
View ArticleCanadians think First Peoples get too much support: Poll
CANADA: Almost two-thirds of Canadians believe Aboriginal people receive too much support from taxpayers, a new survey has found. CANADA: Almost two-thirds of Canadians believe Aboriginal people...
View ArticleABORIGINAL INK: A nation’s complacency is killing first peoples
NATIONAL: CHRIS MUNRO* tells the horrendous story of Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who preyed on many Aboriginal women. NATIONAL: CHRIS MUNRO* tells the horrendous story of Canadian serial...
View ArticleCanadian PM to talk with Aboriginal leaders following hunger strike
CANADA: Canada’s prime minister has agreed to talks with Indigenous leaders as a hunger strike by one native chief, demanding improvements to squalid living conditions on reserves, enters its fourth...
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