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Next generation of aboriginals could break cycle of dependency: former PM’s son

By Ryan Paul • Sep 15th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

Canada has the ability to make the next generation of aboriginals the one to break the cycle of dependency, David Martin says. The son of former prime...

Feds shortchanging aboriginal child services: AFN

By Ryan Paul • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

The federal government is underfunding aboriginal child welfare agencies, the Canadian Human Right Tribunal heard Monday. Welfare agencies serving Fir...

Nicholas heralded as inspiration, ‘hero’

By Ryan Paul • Sep 11th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

Judge Graydon Nicholas is being hailed as an inspiration and a hero by those who have worked with the man who will be New Brunswick’s next lieut...

Province refusing to fund prison upgrades

By Ryan Paul • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

The province has turned down a request for funding to upgrade police holding cells on aboriginal reserves, a Manitoba First Nations official said Tues...

Protests in Britain target Canada’s oilsands

By Ryan Paul • Sep 5th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

A handful of First Nations activists returned home last week after grabbing national headlines in England for protesting Alberta’s oilsands deve...

Feds, First Nations leaders at odds on swine flu preparations

By Ryan Paul • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq and a First Nations chief had widely divergent views Friday on the state of flu pandemic preparedness plans for aborigi...

Platinex kept from landing on First Nation

By Ryan Paul • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Canada15 Comments »

A boat and a canoe outside of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation held off a plane of Platinex mining employees from landing on Nemeigusabi...

First Nations targeted at U.S. border, N.B. Mi’kmaq say

By Ryan Paul • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Canada, United StatesNo Comments »

Some Mi’kmaq people from Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick say they’re concerned about the treatment they received from U.S. custom...

Australia breached Aborigines’ rights: UN

By Ryan Paul • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: AustraliaNo Comments »

Australia breached international obligations on human and indigenous rights by imposing radical restrictions on Aborigines during a crackdown on child...

Edmonton soldier dies in car rollover

By Ryan Paul • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: CanadaNo Comments »

An Edmonton-based soldier is dead after the car he was driving went into a ditch and rolled several times in Saskatchewan on Saturday. Kyle Whitehead,...