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March 30 - Globe and Mail
Aboriginals will get an injection of cash to help improve the lot of their students, many of whom spend their days in deteriorating classrooms with sub-standard teaching and limited access to libraries and computers.
And a program to improve water systems will be extended to help remedy the deplorable conditions on reserves, some of which have been…
Missed it - by that much. The Federal budget and First Nations education
March 30 - CBC.ca
The federal budget puts a down payment on improvements to First Nations schooling, but the young people who have led the charge for better funding in Native schools say the $275 million is inadequate.
The education funding is the centrepiece of…
What is known is that the Beardy’s Memorial Arena in Saskatchewan will be undergoing some upgrades soon. But residents of the Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation are now anxiously awaiting March 31 to find out whether their rink will also host a National Hockey League pre-season game later this year.
The Aboriginal community made the Top 5 list in the annual Kraft Hockeyville contest. By…
Another Nolan in NHL
Jordan Nolan has become the third member of his family to play in the National Hockey League. The 22-year-old Ojibwe, who is toiling for the Los Angeles Kings, is the youngest son of Ted Nolan. The Kings called up Nolan, who is from Garden River, Ont., from their American Hockey League affiliate Manchester Monarchs on Feb. 10. The forward had four…
For the second straight year many of the country’s top Aboriginal teenaged hockey players will be deciding national bragging rights in Saskatoon.
The National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) are scheduled for May 7 through 12. All matches will be held at Jemini, a Saskatoon-based four-pad facility.
Sixteen teams representing eight provinces, territories or regions will…
Did you know that Aboriginal Canadian or Native American students between the ages of nine and 11 years old could win free tuition to Space Camp just by sending in a short 30 second video and telling why they want to go?
Did you know that if you won one of 12 scholarships for Aboriginal or Native American students you will be invited to be an extra on a major box office family-oriented…
The Northwest Territories is taking the lead in educating its students about Indian residential schools. N.W.T. Deputy Premier Jackson Lafferty accepted the historical report They Came for the Children from Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Marie Wilson and pledged to use it as part of the school curriculum.
“We are proud to be a partner on this very important initiative that’s…
Over the past decade, North America and western Europe have seen an alarming resurgence of bedbugs in homes, university dormitories, apartments and hotels. Although the reason for the proliferation of bedbugs is not clear, some attribute this to the increase in international travel, use of narrower spectrum insecticides targeting other insect pests (that don’t work on bedbugs) and resistance…
Artist—Robbie Antone's Blues Machine
Song—Red Road Blues
Album—Red Road Blues
The first days of February 2012 was a special time for blues out of Canada and Aboriginal directed music.
Jimmy & the Sleepers and Robbie Antone’s Blues Machine both represented different Canadian city Blues Associations as entries into the International Memphis Blues Challenge. Both…
Artist—Jimmy & The Sleepers
Song—Devil In Me
Album—Self-titled EP
The first days of February 2012 was a special time for blues out of Canada and Aboriginal directed music.
Jimmy & the Sleepers and Robbie Antone’s Blues Machine both represented different Canadian city Blues Associations as entries into the International Memphis Blues Challenge. Both…
Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Wesley French: Honesty.
W: What is it that really makes you mad?
W.F.: Injustice.
W: When are you at your happiest?
W.F.: When I’m with my family.
W: What one word best describes you when you are at your worst?
W.F.: Manic.
W: What one person do you most admire and why?
W.F.:…
Members of the Musqueam First Nation are embroiled in talks with a Vancouver condo developer, the province and the city following a dispute over a parcel of land where protesters say ancestral remains were unearthed.
In the early morning hours of March 12, about 50 Musqueam band members gathered at the 1300 block of Southwest Marine Drive demanding that the developer of the South…
In its interim report released Feb. 24, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended that the federal government ensure the commission had “adequate funds to complete its mandate on time.”
But there has been no formal request made for additional funding.
While the TRC has been given another year to accomplish its tasks, additional funding has not been received and getting…
The “general language” used by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its recently released interim report is a disappointment to Clement Chartier, president of the Métis National Council.
“The report itself speaks in general terms. When one reads it, one would not think that Métis generally were excluded (from the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement),” said Chartier. “…