Amid talk of governance issues, the closure of the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) by virtue of $200 million in Health Canada cuts is causing consternation among First Nations, Métis and Inuit alike, even though the main groups representing them…
April 10, 2012
NAHO Snuffed in Fed Funding Cuts, Amid Governance Issues
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…
March 23, 2012
Sold-Out Conference Draws 1,400-Plus Aboriginal Youth
Martial arts, interactions with elders, community violence and substance abuse topped the youthful aboriginal agenda at a recent conference that drew sellout crowds. More than 1,400 young aboriginals from across Canada flocked to Nanaimo, British Columbia, last week for the…
March 21, 2012
Missing Women Commission Gets Two New Lawyers for Aboriginal Interests
Wally Oppal, head of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in British Columbia, has appointed two new attorneys to address aboriginal issues in the ongoing inquiry into serial killer Robert Pickton’s unfettered murder spree in the early 2000s. Independent co-counsel…
March 17, 2012
Aboriginal-Law Expert Joins Miller Thomson in Saskatchewan
As mining companies and other entities get more and more serious about conducting meaningful consultation with aboriginals on land and resource development, aboriginal law is a fast-growing field. A sign of that is the new position that W. Thomas Molloy,…
March 15, 2012
Tough Crime Bill Unfair to Aboriginals, Leaders Say
Canada has passed crime-toughening legislation that aboriginal leaders say will further increase the overrepresentation of indigenous in the country’s prisons. Bill C-10 is known as the Safe Streets and Communities Act, aboriginal leaders say it will create anything but, at…
March 13, 2012
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Suspends Hearings to Search for New Aboriginal Lawyer
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 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…
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