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The first study in Canada of racial profiling by a police service has turned up results showing what Aboriginal people have thought all along-police target Native people.
Scot Wortley, a professor with the University of Toronto criminology department, headed up a study done on the Kingston police department. Released in May, the study found that police were 3.7 times more…
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Ontario now has a new regional chief.
Angus Toulouse of Sagamok Anishinabek First Nation was elected to the position in a traditional standing vote during a Chiefs of Ontario meeting held on Eagle Lake First Nation on June 14. He replaces outgoing regional chief Charles Fox who announced his plans to resign in May.
Toulouse has been chief of the Sagamok Anishinabek…
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Ontario now has a new regional chief.
Angus Toulouse of Sagamok Anishinabek First Nation was elected to the position in a traditional standing vote during a Chiefs of Ontario meeting held on Eagle Lake First Nation on June 14. He replaces outgoing regional chief Charles Fox who announced his plans to resign in May.
Toulouse has been chief of the Sagamok Anishinabek…
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Even though there has been explosive testimony coming out of the Ipperwash Inquiry over the last few months, the leader of Ontario's New Democratic Party still believes the most interesting material is yet to come.
Howard Hampton is a veteran of Ontario provincial politics. His party had just been pushed into opposition by the Mike Harris Conservatives' "Common Sense…
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Even though there has been explosive testimony coming out of the Ipperwash Inquiry over the last few months, the leader of Ontario's New Democratic Party still believes the most interesting material is yet to come.
Howard Hampton is a veteran of Ontario provincial politics. His party had just been pushed into opposition by the Mike Harris Conservatives' "Common Sense…
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The Ontario Metis Aboriginal Association (OMAA) has lost a bid to try and get constitutionally-protected Metis hunting and fishing rights recognized for its members.
In an order handed down on June 17 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Justice I.S. McMillan ruled that the OMAA application "does not constitute a matter in which this court should exercise its…
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The Ontario Metis Aboriginal Association (OMAA) has lost a bid to try and get constitutionally-protected Metis hunting and fishing rights recognized for its members.
In an order handed down on June 17 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Justice I.S. McMillan ruled that the OMAA application "does not constitute a matter in which this court should exercise its…
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The Chippewas of the Thames First Nation and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada have reached a settlement in a claim dating back to 1834.
The settlement-compensation for the misuse of funds from the sale of a package of land-provides the First Nation with a financial package totaling $15 million for the damages and losses it suffered as a result of the claim.
"The…
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The Chippewas of the Thames First Nation and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada have reached a settlement in a claim dating back to 1834.
The settlement-compensation for the misuse of funds from the sale of a package of land-provides the First Nation with a financial package totaling $15 million for the damages and losses it suffered as a result of the claim.
"The…
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Ontario now has a new regional chief. Angus Toulouse of Sagamok Anishinabek First Nation was elected to the position in a traditional standing vote during a Chiefs of Ontario meeting held on Eagle Lake First Nation on June 14.
He replaces outgoing regional chief Charles Fox who announced his plans to resign in May. Toulouse has been chief of the Sagamok Anishinabek First…
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This past May, 25 students graduated from Ontario's first ever community college-level immersion program in Anishinaabemowin.
The one-year program was the result of a 16-week pilot project undertaken in January 2004 by Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology.
"We wanted to see if there was interest in the community and the response was pretty overwhelming,"…
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This past May, 25 students graduated from Ontario's first ever community college-level immersion program in Anishinaabemowin.
The one-year program was the result of a 16-week pilot project undertaken in January 2004 by Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology.
"We wanted to see if there was interest in the community and the response was pretty overwhelming,"…
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Dolores Wawia flunked Grade 11 twice because of poor marks in physics class, leading the Thunder Bay resident to give up on her academic dreams.
As a Native teenager growing up in the northwestern Ontario city during the 1950s and 1960s, she never had any Native role models to look up to. She never saw Native people with jobs in the city.
Wawia thought the hassle…
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Dolores Wawia flunked Grade 11 twice because of poor marks in physics class, leading the Thunder Bay resident to give up on her academic dreams.
As a Native teenager growing up in the northwestern Ontario city during the 1950s and 1960s, she never had any Native role models to look up to. She never saw Native people with jobs in the city.
Wawia thought the hassle…
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National Aboriginal Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate the occasion than with a quiz about all things Aboriginal. Here are a few questions about people, places and events that have been featured in stories in Ontario Bichbark and our sister publications over the past year. How many can you get right?
1) In the June 2004 issue of Windspeaker, we…