KATHRYN BLAZE CARLSON
The Globe and Mail
First Nations are pushing back at the Harper government over strings they say have been unfairly attached to their federal funding.
Write comment (0 Comments)By Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun columnist
Nowhere is Canada’s dysfunctional relationship with aboriginal people more visible than in our courts, our jails and our prisons.
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Tory Senator Patrick Brazeau played a late April Fools' joke Monday night when he announced his ‘resignation’ over Twitter.
Write comment (0 Comments)By Christopher Curtis, The Gazette (Montreal)
Aboriginal police forces on 26 Quebec reserves were disbanded at midnight Sunday as federal and provincial negotiators failed to renew a funding agreement that expired Monday.
Write comment (0 Comments)UFV course shows why we need to deal with controversial issue sooner than later
By Cornelia Naylor
The Times (Chilliwack)
The issue of aboriginal rights, title and land claims might be contentious and often misunderstood, but there is one thing it is not, according to University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) geography professor Ken Brealey.
Write comment (0 Comments)by ALEXIS VAN BEMMEL
straight.com
CANADA HAS SHOWN quite a racist attitude in its response to the Idle No More movement. Blatantly racist comments that I would certainly not expect in 2013 abound, such as “Indian giver”, “Playing victim…waiting for a handout”, and “This is Canada…the point is for everyone to have equal rights aka no special native rights…move on and get over it. You ain’t special. You are no different than any other Canadian even if you don’t want to call yourself one.” These feel like a slap in the face, and I’m a white Euro-Canadian. And then Don Olsen’s letter was published in the Nanaimo Daily News. I can sit idly by listening to this racist hatred no more.
Write comment (0 Comments)Destiny Rae Tom, 21, was found dead outside a home on the Nadleh reserve Saturday
CBC News
A suspicious death over the weekend is spurring a First Nations community to confront rampant drug and alcohol abuse on the reserve.
Write comment (0 Comments)by Joseph Quesnel
I asked that question in light of two recent events. One occurred in Lethbridge, Alberta and the other in Winnipeg. The former I attended in person and the second, I did not.
The first event involved Tom Flanagan and the other involved the announcement of the First Nations Financial Transparency Act in Winnipeg. Both events involved Idle No More.
By: Christine McFarlane
The Transforming Diabetes in Urban Aboriginal Toronto project, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and headed by researcher Heather Howard at the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto has found that when it comes to the success of program delivery for diabetes, it is important for health and service providers, and the Aboriginal community to have a clear understanding between each other of what support is needed to help each other out.
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