By Janet Steffenhagen, Vancouver Sun
Key education stakeholders are asking the B.C. government to require all students to take a course in aboriginal studies before graduation.
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VANCOUVER – Elections BC is blaming a “mistake” by polling workers in a Vancouver-area riding after First Nations voters who attempted to use their Indian status cards as identification were asked for a second piece of ID.
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A Cree community in northern Quebec says it can't escape a decades-old problem of mining pollution that is poisoning them.
Write comment (1 Comment)On the eastern shore of James Bay, a very different story
By Terry Milewski, CBC News
Freezing, mouldy homes. Sewage contamination. Sick kids. Unemployment. A blockade on the road to the mine. A hunger strike by the chief.
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Canadian Lawyer Magazine
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that individual members of an Aboriginal group can’t use blockades or other “self-help” remedies when claiming a government breached its duty to consult, and in fact doing so amounted to “an abuse of process.”
Write comment (0 Comments)By PERRI KLASS, M.D.
Poverty is an exam room familiar. From Bellevue Hospital in New York to the neighborhood health center in Boston where I used to work, poverty has filtered through many of my interactions with parents and their children.
Write comment (0 Comments)Greenhouse gas highest since the Pliocene, when sea levels were higher and the Earth was warmer.
Robert Kunzig
National Geographic News
An instrument near the summit of Mauna Loa in Hawaii has recorded a long-awaited climate milestone: the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere there has exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in 55 years of measurement—and probably more than 3 million years of Earth history.
Write comment (7 Comments)Steven Stark is on trial in Washington state for crab-fishing on the American side of Boundary Bay. He says he’s entitled to fish there
By Joel Barde and Carlos Tello, Special to the Sun
Steven Stark spent his childhood summers walking up and down the shoreline of Point Roberts, a stick in one hand and a bucket in the other.
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The Globe and Mail
Former prime minister Paul Martin could have put up his feet after leaving political life, but relaxation is not part of his DNA.
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