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Bolivian president to deepen social revolution

By Ryan Paul • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: South AmericaNo Comments »

President Evo Morales seems set to push ahead with the implementation of a new constitution to place indigenous peoples at the heart of Bolivia’...

First Nations members cautious about flu vaccine

By Ryan Paul • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

Not all residents of an isolated Manitoba First Nations community hit hard by the first wave of the H1N1 flu are eager to be vaccinated against an exp...

Feds should renew funding for missing-women lobby: Liberal

By Ryan Paul • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

The federal Liberal critic for women’s issues has called on the Conservative government to guarantee a renewed five-year mandate for Sisters in ...

Olympic choir foul-up may get resolved

By Ryan Paul • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

An aboriginal youth choir from Newfoundland and Labrador may get a chance to perform in B.C. during the 2010 Olympics after all. Members of the Set...

How the money will be spent

By Ryan Paul • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

The recreation money for Ontario’s native reserves will be spent largely on renovating or expanding community centres and arenas, many of them i...

Treaty process costly, slow: B.C. First Nation

By Ryan Paul • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

A B.C. First Nation is just one chapter away from a treaty agreement, but its main negotiator says federal government foot-dragging has become frustra...

N.B. woman chosen to guard Olympic flame

By Ryan Paul • Oct 24th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

A young aboriginal woman from northwestern New Brunswick is going to Greece next week to get the Olympic flame. Dina Ouellette, 22, of the Madawaska M...

Aboriginal war veteran dies in Saskatchewan

By Ryan Paul • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

REGINA — Charlie Bird, one of the few remaining aboriginal veterans of the Second World War, has died. The 89-year-old fought in the D-Day invasion....

Funding running out for native diabetes program

By Ryan Paul • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

The Native Council of P.E.I. has launched a letter-writing to campaign to save one of the country’s oldest diabetes programs aimed at aboriginal...

Ontario reserves to see boom in rink building

By Ryan Paul • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

The remote and often troubled reserves of northern Ontario are rarely big winners at budget time, but federal stimulus spending promises a hockey-rink...