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First Nations Youth Walk For Clean Water

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.22.2013 | Canada Impact
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Craig and Marc Kielburger

Acadia Solomon just wanted to swim with her friends. Unfortunately the signs posted last year at her favourite swimming spot were clear: it was not safe to swim in or drink the water. So when she heard about a group of First Nations youth walking from Winnipeg to Ottawa to speak out about the "killing" of our nation's lakes and rivers, no power in the world was going to stop her from joining them.

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3 Aboriginal Millennials To Watch

The Huffington Post Canada | Katrina Sieniuc | Posted 05.10.2013 | Canada Impact
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Much of the news reporting on Canada’s aboriginal community highlights the challenges indigenous people face: violence, barriers to receiving decent...

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Two Reserves Declare State Of Emergency

CBC | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada Politics
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A partial evacuation is now planned for the Kashechewan First Nation, as flood problems worsen for communities on the James Bay Coast in northern Onta...

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Aboriginals Want More Spent On Education For First Nations

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada Alberta
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SASKATOON - An aboriginal group wants the federal government to spend more money on education for First Nation students.The Federation of Saskatchewan...

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Senators Walk Out On Aboriginal Affairs Minister

CBC | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Politics
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Three Liberal senators, all of them aboriginal, walked out of a committee meeting Wednesday night, as Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan was test...

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Chief Agrees To Stop Hunger Strike

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.24.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has agreed to end her hunger protest, and National Chief Shawn Atleo is coming back to work, but Ottawa-Fir...

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Fed Up With Idle No More?

Brian C. Stiller | Posted 03.24.2013 | Canada Politics
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Brian C. Stiller

Fed up with the double standard of aboriginal leaders who want more funds yet seem incompetent and irresponsible in their own management, many Canadian have simply shut down listening to Idle No More. How might we deal with a dismissive reaction all too instinctive to many watching this situation unfold?

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Idle No More: First Nations Governance Coded To Fail

Sandy Garossino | Posted 03.12.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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Sandy Garossino

The Deloitte & Touche audit of Attawapiskat is a textbook outcome of the fatal weakness in Canada's current model of First Nations governance, which is coded to fail. There could be hundreds of Attawapiskats.
Does anyone know what the average First Nations chief's level of training and management experience is? Or the average training and experience of band councillors? How many building inspectors live within 50 miles of Attawapiskat? How about CAs, CGAs or project managers capable of supervising and maintaining records on multiple construction sites?

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Governor General To Meet First Nations Leaders

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.12.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The plans for Stephen Harper's high-stakes meeting with First Nations leaders on Friday are awash in confusion.After a week of frenetic meeti...

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WATCH: Idle No More On HuffPost Live

The Huffington Post B.C. | Posted 01.03.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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Idle No More was sparked by the Conservative government's Bill C-45 legislation that makes it easier to lease reserve land, but the movement includes ...

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Idle No More: What It Truly Means to Be Canadian

Kevin Grandia | Posted 02.23.2013 | Canada Politics
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Kevin Grandia

Chief Theresa Spence will continue her hunger strike until the Prime Minister meets with her to discuss her concerns. While the government that represents me is shameful, I'm very proud to be Canadian today as I see so many people speaking out. But nobody more than Spence who is showing the world right now what it is to truly care about the country you call home.

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Idle No More Protest Closes Ontario Highway

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.21.2013 | Canada Impact
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ESPANOLA, Ont. - An aboriginal protest closed the Trans-Canada Highway near Espanola, in northern Ontario, for about three hours today.Ontario Provinc...

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Will Hunger Strike Lead To Harper Meeting?

CBC | Posted 02.16.2013 | Canada Politics
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The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling for a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. David Johnston. ...

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Idle No More Movement Revs Up

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.15.2013 | Canada Politics
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First Nations activists are gearing up for a week of rallies as a growing grassroots movement known as Idle No More continues to draw communities acro...

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Arctic Homes Need Help: Report

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.08.2013 | Canada Politics
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Private-sector help and innovative designs are making headway in improving substandard housing in Canada's North, says a new report from the Conferenc...

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Canada Trying To 'Exterminate' Us, Ex-Chiefs Tell Iranian TV

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 10.16.2012 | Canada Politics
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Two former First Nation chiefs appeared on Iran’s state-run TV recently to express their frustrations with Canada’s treatment of their people, inc...

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First Nations Team Up With Habitat For Humanity To Stop The Housing Crisis

The Huffington Post Canada | Lauren Strapagiel | Posted 09.21.2012 | Canada Impact
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When the story of Attawapiskat’s housing emergency hit the headlines, non-Aboriginal Canadians got a glimpse into a crisis that exists in First Nati...

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'How Come You Get To Tell Me Whether I'm An Indian Or Not?'

CP | Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.28.2012 | Canada Impact
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TORONTO - An Ontario woman's long and byzantine quest to gain Indian status — lost because her grandmother was "enfranchised" under a discredited fe...

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Band Members Wined And Dined In Rigged Treaty Vote?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.10.2012 | Canada Politics
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VANCOUVER - Aboriginal protesters preventing a land-claims treaty vote for a First Nation near Powell River, B.C., are accusing the provincial governm...

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Spurring On The Arts In Attawapiskat

CBC | Posted 03.26.2012 | Canada
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A newly launched project intends to give people living in Attawapiskat the means to make and sell their own artistic creations to markets...

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The Model Aboriginal Community?

CBC | Posted 03.26.2012 | Canada
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Like many aboriginal communities, living conditions are a concern in Oujé-Bougoumou in northern Quebec, but over the years there have be...

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Let My People Go

Daniel D. Veniez | Posted 03.26.2012 | Canada Politics
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Daniel D. Veniez

Some are calling the meeting this week in Ottawa between the Harper Government and the Assembly of First Nations, "historic." In a way, I am sure it is. After six full years in power this is the very first time Harper and his ministers have taken the time to meet the chiefs.

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Paul Martin To Harper On First Nations: Get On With It, You Wasted 6 Years

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.25.2012 | Canada
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OTTAWA - Paul Martin does nothing to mask his frustration on the other end of a telephone line.The former prime minister and architect of the scuttled...

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Althia Raj

Will Harper Listen To Chiefs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 03.24.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA — Canada’s First Nations' chiefs say they are cautiously optimistic that tomorrow’s Crown-First Nations Gathering will lead to a new rela...

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Situation Urgent On Reserves: National Chief

CBC | Posted 03.24.2012 | Canada Politics
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Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo says an "ambitious" approach is needed to tackle the issues facing Canada's aborigin...

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