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It seems to us that the Aboriginal Affairs ship being captained currently by MP John Duncan has been set adrift by its political master, Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It’s not only just off course; there seems to be no course charted at all, and...
Photo Caption: Cee Jai Julian (right), a former sex worker in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, addresses an April 10 press conference, with Battered Women’s Support Services worker Lisa Yellow-Quill.
A coalition of interested groups have rejected...
On March 31st, after two years of preparation by his extended family, Maxwxwadziy, Chief George Shaughnessy conducted a Kwixella to memorialize 5 family members and to name those born since his last potlatch in Alert Bay in 2006. The Kwixella, which...
“It’s one thing for governments to be able to close our doors, but they can’t close our minds,” said Satsan Herb George, executive director for the National Centre for First Nations Governance.
Almost two weeks after the federal budget was brought...
The Heiltsuk First Nation is demanding that the National Energy Board’s Northern Gateway pipeline joint review panel return to the coastal community and give them back the day-and-a-half lost in hearings last month.
“Right now we are in discussions...
Chiefs of the Yinka Dene Alliance of British Columbia, who gathered on the steps of the Alberta Legislature on May 2 and spoke out against Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline, were not joined by Alberta chiefs.
It was not a slight, said Eriel...
Low membership numbers and no on-reserve businesses have made it possible for the Nekaneet First Nation to collect GST on business conducted on its land.
In the next month, chief and council will pass the necessary bylaw and by July or August, GST...
The operator of the River Cree Casino and Resort are hoping to speak to Premier Alison Redford about the difficulties they are encountering in negotiating their second First Nation Development Fund grant.
“We want to know what we can do with the...
Next month, amateur boxer Wayne Bourque will be inducted into the Wood Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in his hometown of Fort McMurray.
“It’s nice to be remembered and I am very honoured,” said Bourque, who has lived in Toronto for over two decades. He...
It all begins with “one good idea.”
CBC Saskatchewan producer Merelda Fiddler is referring to the Boom Box, but she could just as easily be talking about the three winning entries for CBC’s inaugural competition for Aboriginal entrepreneurs.
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