By Katrina Sieniuc
The Huffington Post Canada
Much of the news reporting on Canada’s aboriginal community highlights the challenges indigenous people face: violence, barriers to receiving decent education, high crime rates, unfairness in the justice system and the disproportionate numbers of aboriginal people in Canadian jails are only a few examples.
Write comment (0 Comments)By Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
The number of people identifying themselves as aboriginal grew by 20.1 per cent across Canada since 2006, with B.C. home to one of the highest shares in the country, according to the 2011 national household survey.
Write comment (0 Comments)Keven Drews, The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER -- Southwestern British Columbia's St'at'imc Chiefs Council is threatening to block a highway and rail line and "embarrass" private companies and the next provincial government over trespasses on its traditional territory.
Write comment (0 Comments)Erica Fisher
moosefm.ca
A Fort Nelson First Nation family has lost its appeal of a Supreme Court decision about the sale of timber rights on Crown land. The sale was opposed by the Behn family, who set up a camp blocking the logging company from accessing the two sites it had been granted licenses to harvest timber. Write comment (0 Comments)
By Heather Polischuk, Leader-Post
REGINA — A 61-year-old man accused of murdering Dorinda Machiskinic on the Yellow Quill First Nation made an appearance at Regina Provincial Court on Wednesday morning.
Write comment (0 Comments)By Betty Ann Adam, The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
As 40 people from six communities around Saskatchewan shelter in hotels because of spring floods, the chief of the James Smith First Nation is hoping six days of sandbagging and pumping water will protect the homes of more than 130 others.
Write comment (0 Comments)By Staff, The Canadian Press
REGINA – More than a dozen people have been forced from their homes on a northwestern Saskatchewan reserve because of a grass fire.
Write comment (0 Comments)By: Staff Writer
Winnipeg Free Press
The biggest challenge facing Manitoba over the next 15 years is finding a way to get more of its aboriginal youth into the workforce, a Winnipeg business conference was told today.
Write comment (0 Comments)By: Joan Bryden and Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Independent audits into dubious housing allowance claims by three senators did little Thursday to silence allegations of improper spending and cover-up hanging over Canada's much-maligned upper house.
Write comment (0 Comments)
