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JAMES TURNER | QMI AGENCY
WINNIPEG -- An outbreak of dangerous arsons committed by kids living in Bloodvein First Nation appears to be showing no signs of slowing after two young girls were charged Thursday for torching a family's home.
Write comment (1 Comment)RCMP called in to investigation by Health Canada
The Canadian Press
The RCMP is investigating a senior British Columbia health official accused of bilking a remote aboriginal community out of possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Write comment (0 Comments)Downtown protest focuses on trade deal with China
BY VALERIE FORTNEY, CALGARY HERALD
Michelle Thrush was recently in the south of France, “the first native woman to walk the red carpet,” she notes proudly, at the Cannes Film Festival.
Write comment (0 Comments)Cree organizer Clayton Thomas-Muller provides a deeply personal account of a ceremonial healing walk through the broken landscape of Canada’s tar sands. This year’s walk begins July 4.
by Clayton Thomas-Muller
A couple years ago I was asked by the Keepers of the Athabasca to be Master of Ceremonies for a unique event: the first annual walk to heal the Canadian tar sands.
Write comment (0 Comments)By Michael Woods, Postmedia News
OTTAWA — The Harper government is slashing funding to several major aboriginal political organizations — including the Assembly of First Nations — a surprise move that the group’s national chief says flies in the face of the government’s stated intention to work with First Nations.
Write comment (1 Comment)Bethany Lindsay
Vancouver Sun web editor, legal sideline sitter
Vancouver Sun blogs
Most British Columbians who have a basic grasp of their rights as tenants would put up a fight when they hear their landlord plans to nearly triple their rents.
Write comment (0 Comments)PETER JAMES
PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN STAFF
More than a dozen First Nations groups along the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline route have come out strongly against the project as the review process draws to a close.
Write comment (0 Comments)By Erika Stark, Calgary Herald
Protecting ancient cultural sites is one of the most important ways of preserving Blackfoot heritage, members of the First Nations community in Alberta say.
Write comment (0 Comments)Not stopping despite Assiniboine plan
By: Bartley Kives
Winnipeg Free Press
Two northwestern Ontario Ojibwa communities mired in a water dispute with Winnipeg are vowing to continue fighting even after the city backed away from a plan to export water outside its borders.
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