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The Alberta Serious Incident Response team will
investigate “allegations of a possible breach of trust” in how police handled the missing person complaint regarding 18-year-old Colton Crowshoe. He was last seen leaving a party in Calgary July 4, and three weeks later his body was located in the city’s northeast. Police ruled it a homicide. The agency is looking into interactions between…
Celebrated Namgis First Nation carver Beau Dick was only days from the end of his long journey home from Parliament Hill when his caravan heard the news in Calgary: the Mount Polley mine tailings dam had breached in B.C.’s Cariboo region, dumping nearly 15 million cubic metres of toxin-laden sludge into the Fraser River ecosystem.
Only days before, the Vancouver Island elder and his…
Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation, along with several hundred supporters, marched through downtown Toronto on July 31. To simulate a wild river, people carried fish cutouts and 1,500 meters of bright blue fabric rippling in the wind. They stopped traffic along University Avenue as they made their way to Queen’s Park. Grassy Narrows Chief Roger Fobister Sr., wearing a traditional headdress…
Monument commemorates murdered, missing Aboriginal women
Less than a week after the unveiling of a monument at The Forks, the historic junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, to recognize the 1,200 missing and murdered Aboriginal women, the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine was found wrapped in a bag in the Red River. Fontaine had been in the care of Child and…
Alanis Obomsawin’s latest endeavour is making its world debut at the Toronto International Film Festival as the first work by an Indigenous filmmaker to be included in TIFF’s Masters program.
“I’m very honoured. I think it’s wonderful,” said Obomsawin, who is the writer/director for Trick or Treaty?
“I always think the more people seeing the film, the better place we get. It’s…
“It’s about time they showed the wonderful image-making and history of the Anishnabe people,” said artist Bonnie Devine about the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and its exhibition, Before and After the Horizon.
“It’s part of the art history of Ontario. It makes me happy. But I also wonder, why did they take so long?”
The exhibition features Anishinaabe artists of the Great Lakes…
A week-long battle for the over-all team award at this year’s North American Indigenous Games went right down to the wire.
And in the end, British Columbia edged the host Saskatchewan entry by picking up one medal more.
B.C. athletes captured a total of 160 medals (63 gold, 49 silver, 48 bronze) at the Games, which concluded on July 27 in Regina. Saskatchewan competitors finished…
Although presenting the Ontario Superior Court with opposing viewpoints as to what should become of statements obtained through the Independent Assessment Process, both the IAP chief adjudicator and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission agree that Justice Paul M. Perell’s decision is a victory for privacy.
“I am pleased with Justice Perell’s decision, which affirms that promises of…
King announces retirement
After 10 seasons of playing professional hockey in various leagues, Colt King has called it quits. King, a 31-year-old Ojibwe from Thunder Bay, Ont., announced his retirement via Twitter on Aug. 14.
“With a heavy heart I have made the decision to hang ‘em up and retire from the game that I love,” King said. King had spent the past two…
Compiled by Shari Narine
Monument commemorates murdered, missing Aboriginal women
Less than a week after the unveiling of a monument at The Forks, the historic junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, to recognize the 1,200 missing and murdered Aboriginal women, the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine was found wrapped in a bag in the Red River. Fontaine had…
After almost 14 years of receiving funding from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in order to provide quality service for residential school and intergenerational survivors, the Tsow-Tun Le Lum Society, which operates a substance abuse treatment centre on Vancouver Island, is back to piece-meal funding.
They have not been able to accept any new registrants for the program since May 2013…
Ten Aboriginal students will receive scholarships from this year’s RBC Aboriginal Student Awards Program. The scholarships will offset the costs of post-secondary education during the academic year, including tuition, textbooks, living expenses, and school supplies.
Scholarship winners are Brittany David of Little Black River Nation attending school at the University of Winnipeg -…
Moose meat or store bought beef will be replacing fish this winter for many First Nations members who get their salmon from the Quesnell River.
“A lot of people are saying they’re not going to fish. The fish are in the river. They are running,” said Willie Sellars, councillor with the T’exelc Williams Lake Indian Band. “A lot of people are not going to have that meat for the coming…
Both the Métis National Council and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) are lauding the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision upholding a lower court ruling that the federal government has jurisdiction over Métis and non-status Indians.
However, in making its unanimous ruling that both groups were covered under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, the Court of Appeal said that non-…
THE URBANE INDIAN
Located in the sun visor over the steering wheel in my car is an aged and weathered photograph dating back to the 60s. My grandmother and grandfather are proudly standing straight and tall, posing at the Curve Lake Powwow in central Ontario. The interesting thing is my grandfather is wearing a full scale eagle headdress. It’s actually quite magnificent looking. The…