Prime Minister Stephen Harper is bent on marketing Athabasca oil sands crude to Asia, he told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC after his meeting with U.S. and Mexico Presidents Barack Obama and…
April 5, 2012
Harper Wants Northern Gateway With or Without Keystone XL, He Tells U.S. Audience
April 4, 2012
Baby Bear Makoon’s Fate Hangs in the Balance at Manitoba Zoo
It was rescued from the roadside in March, given a Cree name and now faces possible euthanization. This was the latest word in the fate of little Makoon, as rescuer Rene Dubois’s granddaughter named the bear cub he found starving…
April 3, 2012
Aboriginal Transgender Miss Universe Canada Contestant Jenna Talackova Fights Disqualification—And Wins
UPDATE: Jenna’s back in the pageant! Lake Babine First Nation member Jenna Talackova was born male. Four years ago, though, she underwent a sex change operation. Today she is a 23-year-old woman striking enough to make it into the Canadian…
April 2, 2012
Juno Award to Mohawk Blues Pianist Murray Porter
And the Juno for Best Aboriginal Album of the Year goes to … Murray Porter. The Turtle Clan Mowhawk’s jazz pianist’s unique mix of sounds on Songs Lived & Life Played got him the top spot in the aboriginal category…
April 1, 2012
Indigenous Hockey Star Cements Incredible Year With Championship Title and MVP Award
Francis Verreault-Paul was able to finish off his university hockey career with some prestigious team and individual accolades. And now the 24-year-old Montagnais, who is from Mashteuiatsh, an Innu community in Quebec, is waiting to see whether he can launch…
From Shattered Dream to Basketball Junior All Native Tourney Win
It was a bittersweet victory for the Ahousaht Mystic Sunz girls’ division when they snagged the title at the British Columbia Junior All Native basketball tournament. But it was one dedicated to the woman who made it all possible: coach…
March 31, 2012
The Wrath of Sol: Mother Earth Could Get Socked With Violent Solar Storm by 2020
The sun will continue to flare, causing storms, aurorae and assorted mischief well into the next year. And that may not be all.
Brazeau and Trudeau Bare (Almost) All to Box Against Cancer—and Each Other
Two high-profile Canadian politicians from a pair of rival parties will be looking to register a knockout victory on Saturday March 31—in a boxing ring. That’s right. Patrick Brazeau, an Algonquin and a Conservative Senator, will duke it out with…
March 30, 2012
Aboriginals Blast New Federal Budget; Atleo Says There’s ‘Room for Hope’
Aboriginals had mixed reactions to a federal budget proposal that speeds up mining project approval while allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to education, water infrastructure and other issues of major concern among the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Encouraged by…
March 29, 2012
Inuit Renew Fight Against Tuberculosis as Cases Increase
The Canadian government and the national inuit organization Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) are banding together to renew the fight against tuberculosis in the north with increased outreach, new equipment and a worldwide campaign. Building on last year’s program Taima TB…
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