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Calvin Helin still plans to operate his free karate club, primarily for Aboriginal children, in British Columbia, but after digging into his own pocket to cover club expenses the last few years, Helin, is now seeking some financial sponsors.
"It's growing so big I can't carry it anymore," Helin said of the Shudokan Aboriginal Karate Club he founded in 2002 in East Vancouver.
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The grieving parents of a 19-year-old have become resigned to the fact that their son's final resting place is at the bottom of the Bulkley River, but they are deeply upset that search equipment that might have located his body was unavailable for more than two months.
Ernie John was last seen in the early morning on June 25 in his truck plunging into the river in the Morricetown Canyon…
Tsimshian and Museum of Northern British Columbia officials are in a race against time as they work towards obtaining the world's most coveted private collection of Canadian Aboriginal artifacts, which is set to go to auction at Sotheby's in New York on Oct. 5.
The famed Dundas collection contains a number of treasured, sacred objects that originate from the Tsimshian village of…
The number of Aboriginal students completing high school is still lagging well behind thenational average, according to a report released recently by the Caledon Institute of Public Policy.
According to figures contained in Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada, which were calculated based on information contained in the 2001 census, approximately 43 per cent of…
Since it was first identified 25 years ago, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, hasclaimed the lives of around 25 million people worldwide. And, each day, an estimated 8,000 people are added to the list of the dead.
From Aug. 13 to 18, scientists, educators, policy makers, service organizers, community leaders and people living with AIDS and the human immunodeficiency virus (…
It has been six years since the city of Vancouver, the province of British Columbia and the federal government announced a plan to improve the conditions of those living on the streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but despite ambitious proposals concerning housing, health and safety, some organizations say little is being done for members of Canada's poorest community.
"All they're…
Nearly half of the
recommendations in the
recently released Highway of
Tears symposium report are
focused on prevention,
including one that proposes that
a unique free shuttle system
operate between Prince Rupert
…
Two years ago Sheila Swasson had a dream of cycling across Canada to raise awareness about family violence in First Nations communities. On May 28, her dream was set into motion as Aboriginal Women on the Move Cross-Canada Cycle departed Vancouver en-route to St. John's, Nfld.
The dream, which began as a slip of the tongue to family members in 2004, quickly came to life when long-time…
Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre Vancouver reached out to urban Aboriginal communities in the Lower Mainland to strengthen relationships and recruit urban Aboriginal youth during a one-day open house.
The event, which celebrated Aboriginal culture and promoted employment opportunities for youth in the Armed Forces, was held at HMCS DISCOVERY naval base in Stanley Park on May 27.
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Andrea Hardman, 18, an aspiring First Nations artist, who is one of six recipients of this year's YVR Art Foundation Scholarship, has always been drawn to the creative, from finger painting as a child to her preferred medium of photography as a young adult.
A member of the Nisga'a and Carrier Nations, Hardman incorporates her First Nations heritage into her work, viewing her subjects…
Aboriginal people in Canada are three times more likely to be victims of violence than are non-Aboriginal Canadians, according to Victimization and Offending Among the Aboriginal Population in Canada, a report released by Statistics Canada on June 6.
The report, which bases many of its findings on a general social survey conducted in 2004, showed that the risk of becoming a victim of…
Aboriginal people in Canada are three times more likely to be victims of violence than are non-Aboriginal Canadians, according to Victimization and Offending Among the Aboriginal Population in Canada, a report released by Statistics Canada on June 6.
The report, which bases many of its findings on a general social survey conducted in 2004, showed that the risk of becoming a victim of…
In a unanimous decision on June 8, the BC. Court of Appeal stated that the federal Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy is not a race-based fishery. The news was greeted positively by the First Nations Summit and with a promise to appeal to the Supreme Court by the BC Fisheries Survival Coalition. The court decided the communal license of the Musqueam-Burrard and Tsawwassen nations was not a separate…
The Allied Tsimshian Tribes (ATT) brought just one message when their representatives visited Norway in June, and it was a clear and emphatic one: Fish farms are not welcome in their territory.
That message was heard by a wide range of prominent people in the country, home to the world's leading fish farm corporations, and it was backed by delegates from southern B.C., the United States…
Native American youth hope to bring change and awareness to environmental issues through Prayer Run for World Peace, a 3,000 kilometre run from Vancouver to the Eklutna reservation near Anchorage, Alaska.
Nine runners, ranging in age from 18 to 22 years from South Dakota and Minnesota will travel towards Eklutna carrying prayers for the preservation of the Arctic National Wildlife…