Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said Thursday the Harper government would be putting money on the table to go along with contentious plans for new legislation governing First Nations education.
As the paint brushes along the canvas Jordan Bennett reflects on what it means to be an artist.
Tanya Tagaq is a star with her mix of Inuit throat singing and contemporary music.
The National Arts Centre orchestra brought Vivaldi and Beethoven to a middle school in Iqaluit where they also met a “master” of traditional Inuit music.
A dollar store in the community Wetaskiwin is selling a plastic, made-in-China “Indian weapon” peace pipes and a Halloween store is selling a “Sassy Squaw” costume.
The Haida Nation has condemned the actions of a company owned by one of its villages that is currently in the midst of an environmental controversy over an experiment to fertilize the ocean with iron dust in hopes of boosting salmon numbers.
Environment Minister Peter Kent said a Haida-owned company was in “apparent” violation of Canadian environmental law after initiating an experiment to dump 100 tonnes of iron dust into the Pacific Ocean to boost plankton levels.
The head of a Haida-owned company at the centre of an environmental controversy after its fishing boat dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphite to seed the Pacific Ocean says the experiment is not a potential ecological disaster, but one that has “created life.”
Iranian state-controlled television used a Vancouver-based “human rights lawyer” who believes U.S. President Barack Obama visited Mars to attack Canada over its treatment of Indigenous people on the eve of a visit to Tehran by two former chiefs.
