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The International Retailers Association of British Columbia has dealt another blow to the province's planned Tobacco Marking Program, resulting in an indefinite postpone-ment of the program's effective date.
The association has been fighting the marking program since April because it is considered racist. The province intended to mark all tobacco packages with the…
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Ed Yorke has something to celebrate. The former residential school student has found great relief in a report which describes the abuses Native children endured while attending government sanctioned boarding schools.
The 200-page report by psychologist Wilma Spearchief and Louise Million is further proof he is not alone in his fight to see the federal government…
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Ed Yorke has something to celebrate. The former residential school student has found great relief in a report which describes the abuses Native children endured while attending government sanctioned boarding schools.
The 200-page report by psychologist Wilma Spearchief and Louise Million is further proof he is not alone in his fight to see the federal government…
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It's all too easy and tempting to dismiss Teresa Marshall's Latitude 53 show as a series of puns. After all, here's an artist who pastes a photograph of a poverty-stricken Native into a fire extinguisher and then titles it Cultural Extinguisher.
But the Halifax-based artist's show, The Department of Indians Affairs, is more than just a number of weak jokes. Rather, it is…
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It's all too easy and tempting to dismiss Teresa Marshall's Latitude 53 show as a series of puns. After all, here's an artist who pastes a photograph of a poverty-stricken Native into a fire extinguisher and then titles it Cultural Extinguisher.
But the Halifax-based artist's show, The Department of Indians Affairs, is more than just a number of weak jokes. Rather, it is…
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Gambling, whether at a bingo hall or with a lottery ticket, is something most of us have done at one time or another. It is estimated that 93 per cent of Alberta's adult population has tried gambling in one of its various forms.
For most of us it is nothing more than an occasional, relatively harmless form of recreation. Unfortunately, for many people it becomes a…
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Gambling, whether at a bingo hall or with a lottery ticket, is something most of us have done at one time or another. It is estimated that 93 per cent of Alberta's adult population has tried gambling in one of its various forms.
For most of us it is nothing more than an occasional, relatively harmless form of recreation. Unfortunately, for many people it becomes a…
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Smoking is the second leading cause of death among Inuit in Nunavik and first among those over 50. Dr. Stephen Hodgins, Director of Public Health Services of Conseil Regional Kativik de la Sante et des Services Sociaux, told Makivik News that one-quarter of the 149 deaths in Nunavik over the past five years (as of mid-October) can be attributed to smoking.
It is…
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Smoking is the second leading cause of death among Inuit in Nunavik and first among those over 50. Dr. Stephen Hodgins, Director of Public Health Services of Conseil Regional Kativik de la Sante et des Services Sociaux, told Makivik News that one-quarter of the 149 deaths in Nunavik over the past five years (as of mid-October) can be attributed to smoking.
It is…
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Francis Cree, Chippewa Elder from Turtle Mountain met with the Women's Health Education Resource Centre from Lake Andes, South Dakota, to discuss the prevention of AIDS during Sun Dance ceremonies that take place across Indian country in the summer season.
Four years ago, there was a workshop to bring about awareness of AIDS prevention during Sun Dance ceremonies. Since…
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Francis Cree, Chippewa Elder from Turtle Mountain met with the Women's Health Education Resource Centre from Lake Andes, South Dakota, to discuss the prevention of AIDS during Sun Dance ceremonies that take place across Indian country in the summer season.
Four years ago, there was a workshop to bring about awareness of AIDS prevention during Sun Dance ceremonies. Since…
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Between 80 and 100 tornadoes are seen each year in Canada. In fact, Canada rates second in the world for tornado occurrence, after the United States, Russia is in third place.
Although more tornadoes occur in southwestern Ontario and the southern Canadian Prairies than in other parts of Canada, they can occur anywhere from the foothills of Alberta to the Maritime…
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Between 80 and 100 tornadoes are seen each year in Canada. In fact, Canada rates second in the world for tornado occurrence, after the United States, Russia is in third place.
Although more tornadoes occur in southwestern Ontario and the southern Canadian Prairies than in other parts of Canada, they can occur anywhere from the foothills of Alberta to the Maritime…
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Five Micmac reserves in the Cape Breton area are getting their own Native police force, a first for the Atlantic provinces.
In a ceremony some Natives would have thought to be an impossible dream only a few years ago, leaders of the five bands, Federal Solicitor General Herb Gray and Nova Scotia Premier John Savage signed an agreement announcing the new police force July…
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Five Micmac reserves in the Cape Breton area are getting their own Native police force, a first for the Atlantic provinces.
In a ceremony some Natives would have thought to be an impossible dream only a few years ago, leaders of the five bands, Federal Solicitor General Herb Gray and Nova Scotia Premier John Savage signed an agreement announcing the new police force July…