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Federal candidates talk First Nations’ issues – Pique Newsmagazine
Through his work representing Aboriginal people in the courts, Conservative MP John Weston earned his own indigenous name. “(I’m) called Talking Eagle,” he said. “I represented them and assisted them both in community activism and in the courts, and what I really learned from them, which I found to be a precious lesson, was their […]
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Read MoreNunavik women say family demands keep them from jobs at mines – Nunatsiaq News
September 17, 2015 “They want to make sure that their children are cared for” KUUJJUAQ — Consultations with Inuit women across Nunavik earlier this year found that — not surprisingly — they face the same barriers to seeking and securing employment in the mining sector as other Aboriginal women around the world. And one of […]
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Read MoreSeven native youth left for high school and never returned: Finally, an inquest – Toronto Star
Sep 16 2015 Teens who left remote reserves to attend high school in Thunder Bay died in circumstances never fully explored — until now. After years of delay, a single inquest will finally investigate the deaths of seven aboriginal youths forced to leave their remote reserves in northern Ontario to attend high school in Thunder […]
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Read MoreFirst Nation students shown the Thunder Bay ropes – Tbnewswatch.com
Misty Nodin says she thought she’d be in physical danger moving to Thunder Bay. As an Aboriginal teen, the thought of moving to a big city with a bad reputation among First Nation youth as a not-so-friendly place to live, was daunting. But, the Grade 9 Dennis Franklin Cromarty student said, the adjustment from her […]
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Read MoreWitness says Nunavut government deleted budget from its suicide plan – Nunatsiaq News
September 16, 2015 “We had an implementation plan without a budget,” Jack Hicks says A recent evaluation of Nunavut’s suicide prevention action plan shows the Government of Nunavut’s “uneven participation” in the group that created it and properly questions the GN’s leadership in implementing it. That’s according to Jack Hicks, a suicide statistician who testified […]
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Read MoreMNO partnership successfully reduces carbon monoxide emissions – MNO
On August 25, the Métis Nation of Ontario-BrightRoof Solar LP (MNO-BR), Ontario Solar Power (OSP) and Calvary Church completed a 190 kW solar project that will reduce the emissions footprint of Ontario’s electricity system by approximately 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. Located in Peterborough, the Calvary Pentecostal Church has 828 solar panels on the […]
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Read MoreBand officials say new homes for 2011 flood victims are plagued with problems – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 16, 2015 PEGUIS, Man. _ The housing director for a Manitoba First Nation says several new houses purchased for families that lost everything in the 2011 flood have been plagued by problems. Tina McCorrister of the Peguis First Nation says 37 pre-fabricated homes were bought from an American company at a cost […]
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Read MoreUniversity to hold entrepreneurship workshops in 10 remote aboriginal communities – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 16, 2015 SASKATOON _ The University of Saskatchewan is reaching out to remote northern Saskatchewan communities to help aboriginal teens create jobs. The objective of the aboriginal entrepreneurship project is to engage high school students about how they can create job opportunities where they live. It has been around since June 2014, […]
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Read MoreVancouver police ask for help identifying victim and suspect recorded in attack – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 16, 2015 Vancouver police have no suspect and no victim, but they have video of what is believed to be a violent assault of a woman. Police became aware of the attack when a business turned in video that had been captured on video from its security camera. The video was from […]
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Read MoreManitoba RCMP officer who shot man on baseball field won’t face charges:ASIRT – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 16, 2015 WINNIPEG _ An RCMP officer who shot and wounded a man on a baseball field at a northern Manitoba First Nation last year will not be charged. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, which conducted a review of the incident at the request of the Manitoba government, announced its findings […]
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