The British Columbia Missing Women Commission of Inquiry is standing down for three weeks so that a new lawyer can be found to represent aboriginal interests in the wake of the withdrawal of attorney Robyn Gervais, who announced her resignation…
March 13, 2012
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Suspends Hearings to Search for New Aboriginal Lawyer
National Teaching Fellowship Recipient Champions Aboriginal Secondary Education
She taught elementary school for 10 years, then decided she wanted an adventure. So she headed north to become a special-education consultant in the Baffin region, back before it had been sliced off the Northwest Territories (NWT) to become Nunavut….
March 8, 2012
Lakehead University Highlights Residential School Effects
Aboriginal Awareness Week at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay culminates today and tomorrow with a focus on how residential schools affected not just those students who survived them, but also the generations that followed. Residential schools, church- and government-operated, were…
March 7, 2012
Aboriginal Attorney and Group Withdraw from Pickton Inquiry
The last shreds of credibility of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry are in question and aboriginal interests are now barely represented after two significant withdrawals from the process this week. Robyn Gervais, a Métis lawyer who was appointed by…
March 5, 2012
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Renamed Indspire; Leader Receives Diamond Jubilee Award
The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF) has been renamed to reflect its new motto, “Indigenous education, Canada’s future,” the group announced just after its leader, Roberta Jamieson, received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Indspire is not just a…
March 4, 2012
Mining Companies Attempt to Connect With Aboriginals at Conference
Mineral nerds are pouring into Toronto this weekend for the annual meeting of the Prospect & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). Among the programs and meetings on its docket are several pertaining to aboriginal relations, as mining companies attempt to…
March 3, 2012
Sh*t Canadians Say to Aboriginal Women
Yet another video has come out about Sh*t People Say, this one from a young woman in Canada who is “drawing attention to the abuse and victimization aboriginal women face as a result of negative stereotypes in Canadian culture,” as…
February 28, 2012
Canadian Government Surveying Aboriginals
The national Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) is under way, with information being collected from February 6 through June 2012 via phone and personal interviews. The poll focuses on off-reserve First Nations people as well as Métis and Inuit living in…
February 27, 2012
Pakistani-Canadian Oscar Winner Made Earlier Documentary About Missing Aboriginal Women
Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won Pakistan’s first Oscar on Sunday, for her documentary Saving Face, which depicts the story of women disfigured by acid attacks. Lesser-known on the impressive list of productions by the 33-year-old is Highway of Tears, which…
February 25, 2012
Aboriginal Achievement Award Winners Honored as Beacons of Inspiration
A federal cabinet member, a Hollywood star, a public service worker. They come from many facets of life, but all have one thing in common: They are beacons of success not only to fellow aboriginals but are stellar role models…
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