Banning an Aboriginal cultural support advisor from Edmonton City Centre has resulted in cries of racism and racial profiling.

Cree Elder Gary Moostoos posted on Facebook that on Oct. 27 he “was eating noodles at City Center food court and a couple Security approach and stand over me as I eat… The one says that I looked (suspicious) and look like a person they banned.”

By the end of the year, the seven largest cities in the province will have a better understanding of what homelessness looks like in their communities thanks to a coordinated count which took place mid-October.

“The 7 Cities are playing a leadership role within the province of Alberta,” said Susan McGee, chief executive director with Homeward Trust Edmonton. “We work as 7 Cities in housing and supports in a very collaborative way….There’s a lot of shared initiatives we undertake as 7 Cities.”

Nearly 50 years after being dug out of the ground, the remains of 25 Sharphead First Nations people – and three more unearthed in 2007 – were returned to their land.

“It was a very sad and solemn ceremony, but afterwards, knowing that everything was done right ceremonially, I felt better,” said Bill Snow, consultation manager with the Stoney Nakoda Nation.

A delay in an enforcement order is a huge victory for those on the Red Chris Mine blockade.

“Injunctions are the norm on how to deal with any type of Indigenous (action) … when we’re blocking access to any type of development or industry development.

As the National Energy Board continues to hear oral presentations about the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain pipeline to Burnaby, B.C., First Nations on all sides of the Salish Sea are pressing forward with an intertribal treaty to protect their waters from oil tankers.

A new report from British Columbia’s representative for children and youth, reviews progress on 148 recommendations to government over six years and finds B.C. has repeatedly ignored calls to take action on child poverty, domestic violence and Aboriginal children in care. She called the progress made on these social issues “dim and slow”. “We’re asking for a sensible policy and a strategy,” said Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond. “If you don’t work on it, it doesn’t happen. You have to work on it, and work has been very dim and slow.” She said 93,000 children live in poverty in B.C.

Wet’suwet’en Nation Elders worked with Simon Fraser University and Russian Academy of Science researchers to name a new fossil species. The green lacewing insect fossil, found in Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park near Smithers, is now known as Archaeochrysa sanikwa.

“The Wet’suwet’en word sanikwa refers to the transformation of insects and suggests the appearance of this very ancient insect in our time,” said Bruce Archibald, a SFU biologist, who says collaborating with the Wet’suwet’en was “invaluable.”

The University of Toronto has received an anonymous donation of $5 million for the improvement of Indigenous education and research. The money is expected to contribute towards policy changes and a greater focus on literacy during its first year. It is also expected to aid new partnerships among Aboriginal communities, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations to improve Indigenous education.

You’re outta here, said the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, returning a $25,000 cheque to the province, a down payment on capacity funding for the Pacific Trail pipeline.

In seeking support for the pipeline that will bring natural gas to Kitimat for a planned LNG plant, BC’s Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation department drew a line between the capacity funding and ongoing support for child welfare. The Globe and Mail described the move as “ham-fisted.”

Tales drawn from 5,000 years of existence are woven together through audio, visual and modern technology to breathe life into the colorful history of the Musqueam First Nation community.

The Musqueam, Museum of Vancouver and the Museum of Anthropology have partnered on a series of three distinct exhibitions, opening simultaneously this coming January known as c–YsnaîYm The City Before the City.