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Aboriginal protesters in Toronto: Racism is legislated Special

Toronto - With only two days before leaders from the G20 arrive in Ontario, hundreds of First Nations and activists took to the streets of Toronto to show their dissatisfaction with the Canadian government's policies towards the Aboriginal people.

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First Nation leader accuses ON ministries of environmental racism

Yesterday the Anishnabek Grand Council Chief accused the Ontario Ministry of Environment, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and a Manitoulin Island business, Alexander Centre Industries of environmental racism.

In the Media by Stephanie Dearing

Could tar sands be behind high rates of cancer in Fort Chipewyan?

A northern Alberta First Nations community, sited down river from the tar sands, is suffering from a higher-than-normal incidence of cancer. Dr. John O'Connor was instrumental in drawing attention to the cancer rate. So why is he seen as a bad guy?

In the Media by Stephanie Dearing - 7 comments

Op-Ed: Canada's shame found in poor treatment of First Nations people

Canadian policies and legislation since the time of Confederation have served to collectively marginalize First Nations, Inuit and Metis people.

In the Media by Stephanie Dearing - 12 comments

Op-Ed: Australia apologizes, and an era of shameful denial and evasion ends

It’s been a long time coming, and the unimaginable suffering of the Aboriginal people will echo for generations like a scream from the soul of the nation. Australia, has said “Sorry”. An inexpressible misery has found some justice, at last.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 3 comments

A Place That Hope Forgot

Could you live on less than $8,000 a year in South Dakota? Many of those that live in the Pine Ridge Reservation do. It's a place that the United States forgot, where third world living conditions are the rule and hope is a luxury that most can't afford.

In the Media by KJ Mullins - 5 comments

Australia: The stolen generation wins a round, first aboriginal awarded damages

This is about one of the great horror stories of Australian history. Thousands of Aboriginal children were removed from their parents by government officials and missions in the last century. They’re the Stolen Generation.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 7 comments

January 23 ...2007....This Day in History

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$15.7M to be spent on Native Hospital in Quebec

Health Minister Philippe Couillard said it is important to improve the community's access to health-care because of its aging population

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Epidemic of Suicides Expands to New Ontario reserves

TORONTO (AP) — A youth suicide epidemic in Ontario's North has spread to include reserves formerly unaffected by the crisis as this year's toll threatens to become the worst on record. Sixteen suicides on 49 northern reserves as of July 30 could pu..

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'KKK' daubed on Aboriginal graves

The desecration of an Aboriginal burial site in Australia with swastikas and the letters KKK is condemned as "disgusting" by officials.

Adam Beach gets National Aboriginal Achievement Award

Adam Beach has had an incredible list of performances on TV and film and will soon add to his resume one the highest honours bestowed to aboriginal people.

Native art with a hip hop beat

Urban youth culture merges with aboriginal identity in the new Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture.

Aboriginal community forges template for change

As in so many aboriginal communities, living conditions are a concern in Oujé-Bougoumou in northern Quebec, but over the years there have been major improvements, changing both attitudes and lives.

Brett Wilson launches aboriginal entrepreneur challenge

Saskatchewan-born businessman W. Brett Wilson is teaming up with CBC to host the Boom Box — a program where young aboriginal entrepreneurs get to pitch their ideas.