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Over half of Canada’s Aboriginal population lives and works in the country’s urban centres, a place where employment, education and healthcare support opportunities are often hardest to find.
Friendship centres in Grande Prairie and Red Deer are taking the first steps towards building a strategic action plan that will improve the opportunities available to their local communities.
…Annual round dance strengthens culture
Pathways Family Services hosted its 9th annual round dance honouring the late Gordon McGilvery. The event was held on Jan. 17 at the Bowness Sportsplex. Pathways CSA is a uniqut social services agency that works from an Aboriginal worldview to strengthen the resilience of children, youth and families.
State funeral…
Aboriginal men have to step up and play a role in ending violence against Aboriginal women and girls.
“Where are our warriors? Why are they letting this happen to our sisters, daughters, mothers?” asked Deborah Crazyboy, an aspiring educator and student at Mount Royal University. “It’s like a ladder … We need to go to the bottom to find out what’s happening.”
Crazyboy was part of…
Recognizing that there was a need in the Aboriginal urban community for an outpatient program, two well-respected Aboriginal organizations have come together to help those struggling with addictions.
Poundmaker’s Lodge Treatment Centre has opened an outpatient office at the Canadian Native Friendship Centre in downtown Edmonton.
The idea to offer outpatient services came last…
Rockin’ on Whyte
Rockin’ Randy (Daniels) belts out classic rock tunes while Rick Shott plays guitar during the jam at Blues On Whyte on Jan. 31. Both are familiar faces in Edmonton’s music scene. Daniels has led a number of open jams around the city, but is especially known for his energetic performances at Blues On Whyte.
Audio tells story of missing,…
Once again, a First Nation is seeking legal action against the Alberta government.
The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation filed an application in Calgary court on Jan. 15 challenging the province’s newly created Aboriginal Consultation Office. The court action goes beyond questioning ACO’s direction to the Alberta Energy Regulator that “consultation with ACFN is not required with regard…
A new report on poverty in Edmonton indicates that 43.7 per cent of young Aboriginal children up to age five lived in poverty in 2011, more than twice the poverty rate of young Edmonton children overall. Almost one-third of the 100,000 people who live in poverty are children.
Aboriginal people in the city make up a disproportionate number of those living in need, says the Mayor’s Task…
The Blood Tribe Police Service has added a new Crime Reduction Unit to their troop. As a result of recent deaths linked with street versions of oxycodone, the BTPS has taken steps to prevent further harm.
“The impact it’s had on the community’s been great. Some parents are overdosing on it, and leaving young children. The community’s upset,” said Sgt. Joseph Many Fingers, who currently…
The second of three investigations that involved shootings of Indigenous men by RCMP in August 2013 has concluded in the same manner as the first: no wrong-doing by the RCMP officers involved.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has concluded, based heavily on audio-recording from the police cruiser at the scene, that the RCMP officer “was acting properly in the execution of his…
Directors of a newly formed Métis forestry company have grudgingly accepted a government investigation into their joint venture and claim that KAQUO will withstand scrutiny.
Iner Gauchier, chair of Peavine Métis Settlement and a director on KAQUO, says the provincial government is against Métis taking control of their own lands and that is why the investigation was launched.
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Key to the inroads Calgary’s United Way’s Aboriginal Youth and Education Strategy has made in increasing high school completion rates over the past 10 years has been its ever-evolving comprehensive approach. The program works with the education sector, including the three school boards of Calgary Board of Education, the Calgary Catholic School District, and Rocky View Schools, post-secondary…
The promotion of Edmonton Police Service’s Const. Mike Wasylyshen to sergeant in early December sparked a series of protests downtown.
“When I heard that Mike Wasylyshen was being promoted to sergeant, I was shocked,” said Jeanne Longo, a First Nations activist with Idle No More. “I had seen the news and read the newspapers about what he had done and was surprised he was still a police…
BC Hydro’s Site-C Dam project on the Peace River, approximately seven kilometers west of Fort St. John in northeastern BC, has received the approval of the British Columbia government. The proposed dam will result in the flooding of 5,550 hectares of land within the traditional territory of Treaty 8 First Nations. This construction of Site-C will have significant negative impacts on the…
In a surprise move, Wildrose Party leader and head of the Official Opposition Danielle Smith jumped ship and joined Prentice’s Conservative government. In her resignation letter of Dec. 18, Smith said nine of the 14 members of her caucus “have joined the government caucus in a reunification of Alberta’s conservatives.” The decision to accept the former Wildrose MLAs came after a lengthy debate…
A report by consultant Human Environment Group, obtained by the Edmonton Journal, is recommending that the Cumulative Effects Management Association, which is currently studying air pollutions levels, take on no new projects and by the end of 2015 complete all its research. At that time, CEMA would be rolled into a new, larger multi-stakeholder advisory group for the entire Lower…