Indigenous groups on extinction’s edge seek First Nations aid
Indigenous representatives from besieged Colombian communities called on First Nations people in Canada to help in their struggle against extinction.
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45,000 could get status after Senate passes bill
Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed the so-called McIvor bill that could extend status to as many as 45,000 people.
Govt, AFN launch panel to study education
A blue ribbon panel is expected to soon begin studying ways to improve on-reserve education with a report and recommendations on their findings expected sometime in the middle of 2011, Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan said Thursday.
Climate change threatens North’s sewers, roads, buildings: Parliament report
Roads, airports and sewers in Canada’s North face serious threats from the unfolding impacts of climate change, the Parliamentary Aboriginal affairs committee has found, and it is calling on the federal government to step in and protect infrastructure “critical to northerners for their existence.”
Beaver Lake Cree Nation battling oil giants
Less than two months after the chief of Beaver Lake Cree Nation filed a motion in Federal court to halt new oil and gas developments on their traditional territory, oil giants BP and Husky Energy announced a plan to do just that.
Others involved in Pickton killings: survivor
A woman who was taken out to Robert Pickton’s pig farm at least 10 times talks with APTN National News about surviving her encounters with Canada’s most prolific serial killer.
More complaints surface of Winnipeg police starlight tours: AMC
A 20 year-old man who alleges he was taken on a starlight tour by Winnipeg police says he is too afraid to file a formal police complaint.
Starlight tours happening across country: prof
A professor at the University of Manitoba says starlight tours are taking place across the country.
Winnipeg First Nations man says police took him on starlight tour
A 20 year-old man says he was taken on a starlight tour by Winnipeg police who dumped him on the outskirts of the city and told him to run or else he would be Tasered.