Canadian aboriginals come out on top in study comparing four countries

Dec. 19, 2007 - Canadian aboriginals may lag behind the rest of the country in health, income and education, but new research suggests they're doing better than their counterparts in some other countries. Read More>>

'Superjuice' homebrew wreaks havoc on First Nations

Dec. 19, 2007 - A home-brewed drink called superjuice is having a devastating impact on young people living on a remote Manitoba First Nation, a round table on native youth issues heard Tuesday. Read More>>

Options for help available

PRINCE ALBERT, SK, Dec. 17, 2007 - Alcoholism is preventable and a local official says every dollar spent towards helping addicts and future generations, helps. Read More>>

Sarsfield retires as medical officer of health

Dec. 17, 2007 - They will be pretty big shoes to fill as the Northwest Health unit's chief executive officer gets ready to step away from the job. Read More>>

A week's worth of science news

Dec. 16, 2007 - Blood levels of artery-clogging transfatty acids are three times higher among Inuit in Nunavik than among Inuit in Greenland, the conference heard. Read More>>

Survey: Nunavik women, girls in crisis

Dec. 14, 2007 - Two separate surveys point to a crisis among women and girls in Nunavik who start to use drugs and alcohol by the time they're 13. Read More>>

Health society receives money

POWELL RIVER, BC, Dec. 13, 2007 - Tla'Amin Community Health Board Society has received funding from the provincial government. The funding is part of BC's aboriginal nursing strategies, a province-wide initiative to improve opportunities for aboriginal nursing. Read More>>

Native Youth Suicides in Canada Reach Crisis Rate

VANCOUVER, Dec 12, 2007 - Suicide rates are now five to seven times higher for First Nations youth than for non-aboriginal youth, according to Health Canada, and among Inuit youth, suicide rates are 11 times the national average. Read More>>

Death of native boy far from home inspires motion to end funding squabbles

OTTAWA, Dec. 12, 2007 - Jordan Anderson was just five years old when he died in a Winnipeg hospital as bureaucrats fought over even the smallest costs of moving him home. Read More>>

Keeping track of their health

CHILLIWACK, BC, Dec. 11, 2007 - Chehalis Health and Family Services has received $41,471 as part of the government's Aboriginal Nursing Strategies, the province announced Dec. 5. Read More>>

A silent killer causes overhaul at Dakota Plains

DAKOTA PLAINS, Dec. 8, 2007 - Dakota Plains First Nation residents will soon be able to take a deep breath and a sigh of relief without having to worry about the consequences. Read More>>

Silent killer stalks minorities

Dec 08, 2007 - Type 2 diabetes is being called the health crisis of the 21st century, and minorities are most at risk. Read More>>

Nunavut nurses demonstrate for better deal

Dec. 7, 2007 - Warning that Nunavut's health care system faces a severe staffing crisis, about 40 Nunavut nurses and their supporters stood in -27 temperatures in Iqaluit this past Monday to communicate their demand for better wages, benefits and working conditions. Read More>>

New seniors complex for the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation

Dec. 07, 2007 - Seniors and disabled adults from the Chippewas of Kettle & Stony Point First Nation now have more housing options. Read More>>

Baffin mayors discuss Inuit Health Survey

Dec. 07, 2007 - Nearly 1,000 Inuit participated in the recent Qanuippitali? Inuit Health Survey, according to Geraldine Osborne, Associate Medical Officer of Health for Nunavut. Read More>>

Governments battle over $7.5M ambulance bill

Dec. 06, 2007 - Winnipeg's ambulance service is battling senior levels of government over a mounting debt for aboriginal clients receiving social assistance. Read More>>

New program aims to lower suicide attempts in northern B.C.

Dec.03, 2007- A new suicide awareness team that has representatives from 15 aboriginal communities in northern British Columbia has been created to address youth suicide in the region. Read More>>

ONE X ONE children's charity and Assembly of First Nations announces investment in National First Nations School Nutrition Program

Nov. 30, 2007 - ONE X ONE Foundation, a charitable organization committed to fighting poverty and preserving the lives of children in Canada and around the world, and the Assembly of First Nations, the national organization representing First Nations citizens in Canada, today announced the launch of "National First Nations School Nutrition Program", a national outreach initiative designed to provide First Nations children who live in poverty with a school nutrition program. Read More>>

Your Voice Has Power: Together, Our Voices will be Part of the Solution! Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Launches Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week (Dec

Nov. 30, 2007 - Kevin Barlow, Executive Director for the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), today announced the launch of the 2007 National Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week campaign. Read More>>

ITK President Reacts to Treatment of Nunatsiavut Inmate with Mental Illness

Nov. 27, 2007 - Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Mary Simon responded to an article in today's edition of the Ottawa Citizen with sadness and anger. Read More>>

Canada loses billions because almost half natives don't graduate high school

Nov. 27, 2007 - Canada stands to lose billions over the next decade in lost productivity and labour growth because almost one in two aboriginal youths don't graduate from high school, a study being released Monday suggests. Read More>>

Researcher examines First Nations diabetes

Nov. 27, 2007 - A geography professor, Paul Hackett, closely supported by the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, has just launched a two-year examination of the history of diabetes in Manitoba and Saskatchewan First Nations. Read More>>

Crown to appeal Metis fishing rights ruling

Nov. 26, 2007 - The provincial Crown is appealing a recent court decision that found a Metis man had the right to fish without a licence because of his ancestry and heritage. Read More>>

Ontario invests in preventing violence against Aboriginal women

November 25, 2007 - To address violence against Aboriginal women, the McGuinty government is funding an Aboriginal adapted version of the successful Neighbours, Friends and Families campaign announced Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues, Deb Matthews. Read More>>

Aboriginal newcomers get needed helping hand

Nov. 25, 2007 - When First Nations people relocate to Winnipeg for medical treatment, they often face difficulties in addition to illness -- culture shock, loneliness and language barriers, to name a few. Read More>>

Dozens of reserves could contain abandoned military explosives

Nov. 25, 2007 - Abandoned explosives from bygone military training exercises could be scattered across more than two dozen native reserves in Canada, says a newly released document. Read More>>

Suicide rate crippling B.C. native communities, doctor warns

Nov. 23, 2007 - A suicide epidemic is sweeping through native communities in northwestern British Columbia, and few people have a closer view of it than George Deagle, a small-town physician who deals with at least one threat on each shift. Read More>>

Aboriginals feel pain of AIDS

Nov. 23, 2007 - Never before has AIDS Awareness Week carried greater meaning in northern B.C., where recent data indicates a disturbing trend in the aboriginal community. Read More>>

B.C. community pleads for help to halt suicide 'epidemic'

Nov. 22, 2007 - Community leaders in Hazelton, B.C., are calling for help after a recent rash of suicide attempts by aboriginal youths. Read More>>

Speakers aim to put a humanface on the oil sands debate

Nov. 22, 2007 - So much has been written, opined, investigated and studied about the oil sands that one could almost be forgiven for believing that the primary product being produced in northern Alberta is not bitumen, but statistics and reports. Read More>>

Action plan aims to cure aboriginals' health crisis

Nov. 22, 2007 - The statistics on the health of Quebec's aboriginals are shocking. But if a new action plan announced yesterday proves successful, First Nations leaders hope those numbers won't remain dire for long. Read More>>

Canada's housing shortage most prevalent in North: report

Nov. 21, 2007 - Canada's housing shortage is felt most by people in the northern territories, according to a report released in Ottawa Wednesday. Read More>>

Launching of a Blueprint to address the health and social services problems

MONTREAL, Nov. 21 - Faced with serious health problems as well as living conditions that are vastly inferior to that of the Quebec population in general, the Quebec First Nations decided to take the bull by the horns and to attack in unison the numerous challenges to be met in terms of health and social conditions in the communities. Read More>>

Helping her community, one member at a time

VANCOUVER, Nov. 21, 2007 - Grace Elliott-Nielsen pauses in the midst of a busy day to consider the famous people she has met over the years. Read More>>

Food 'addictions' not on the radar

YELLOWKNIFE, Nov. 19, 2007 - In the world of addiction, one substance that many people have problems controlling and managing their behaviour towards rarely comes up: food. Read More>>

SPHERU programs will benefit Prince Albert

PRINCE ALBERT, SK, Nov. 20, 2007 - An interdisciplinary team of researchers is assisting the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region (PAPHR) with the hope of making a difference for people in the province’s north. Read More>>

Canada failing to protect its children, UN report says

Nov. 20, 2007 - Canada is failing to protect the rights of its children in several key areas, according to a new report that marks the 18th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Read More>>

Too Many Children Still Left Out Eighteen Years After Children's Rights Convention Adopted: UNICEF Canada

TORONTO, ON, Nov. 20, 2007 - A new study that examines the state of children's rights in Canada, 18 years after the adoption of the UN Convention of the Rights of a Child, points to the urgent need for stronger legislation, a targeted national children's plan, and a national Children's Commissioner to ensure the rights and well-being of Canadian children are protected. Read More>>

Launching of the First Nations Of Quebec Health And Social Services Blueprint 2007-2017

WENDAKE (VILLAGE-DES-HURONS), QC, Nov. 19, 2007 - The Chief of the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL), Mr. Ghislain Picard, Ms. Guylaine Gill, Executive Director of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC) and Dr. Stanley Vollant are hereby convening media representatives to a press conference, during which they will unveil the First Nations Of Quebec Health And Social Services Blueprint 2007-2017. Read More>>

Traditional food study underway in Chip

Nov. 19, 2007 - The day after a study was released identifying high levels of carcinogens, arsenic, and mercury in waters near Fort Chipewyan, the Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) announced a traditional food consumption study in the area -- planned for over a year. Read More>>

Yukon doctors call for homeless youth shelter

Nov. 19, 2007 - A new homeless shelter for youth topped a list of priorities Yukon doctors are sending to the territorial government following the Yukon Medical Association's annual meeting on Friday. Read More>>

Government to shut down popular, independent health advice website

OTTAWA, Nov. 18, 2007 - The federal Conservative government is axing a popular, bilingual and user-friendly website that provides citizens and medical professionals with reliable, non-commercial information on how to stay healthy and prevent injury and disease. Read More>>

N.W.T. shelter braces for problems from residential schools cheques

Nov. 16, 2007 - As former students of residential schools begin receiving compensation cheques from the federal government, front-line workers at a Yellowknife women's shelter are getting ready for what they say could be busy and tough times ahead. Read More>>

New disorder has old roots

Nov. 16, 2007 - The term "concurrent disorders" might be new to some people but it has been in existence for a long time. Read More>>

'It was controlling my life,' former alcoholic says; Students hear key message as part of Drug Awareness Week

Nov. 16, 2007 - At first, Vince Pawis didn't see himself as an alcoholic. A police officer in a First Nation community, his image of an alcoholic included a liquor bottle wrapped in a paper bag. Read More>>

Nunavut to recruit, train 42 more nurses

Nov. 16, 2007 - Over the next five years, Nunavut plans to increase the number of nurses in the territory by hiring 12 additional nurses and training 30 more Inuit nurses in the Kivalliq and Kitikmeot regions, the health department's new nursing recruitment and retention strategy says. Read More>>

Living conditions on some Ont. reserves 'offensive,' 'unacceptable': Bryant

TORONTO, Nov. 15, 2007 - The living conditions on some Ontario First Nation reserves, where contaminated land has forced several communities to close their local schools, are "offensive" and "unacceptable," Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant said Thursday. Read More>>

Lack of Arctic housing hits women, children hardest

Nov. 15, 2007 - Lyda Fuller heard many sad stories as she interviewed northern women about how hard it is to find a home for themselves and their children, but one comment was particularly chilling. Read More>>

Grim stats for our health region

JASPER, AB, Nov. 14, 2007 - According to the Health Status Report released Oct. 25 by the Aspen Health Region (AHR), this health region has the second-worst in life expectancy in Alberta behind the Northern Lights Health Authority – which includes Fort McMurray. Read More>>

On November 14th, World Diabetes Day, AFN Regional Chief Katherine Whitecloud says Health Canada has taken a step in the right direction

Nov. 14, 2007 - Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Katherine Whitecloud is wearing a pedometer today, in recognition of World Diabetes Day as a gesture to promote exercise as a way of controlling diabetes. She says she’s pleased to see Health Canada is also taking positive steps to better serve First Nations people with diabetes. Read More>>

Canada's largest diabetes centre opens in Edmonton

Nov. 14, 2007 - Seven years after the idea was first conceived by a group of medical scientists, Canada's largest diabetes institute opened in Edmonton today. Read More>>

On November 14th, World Diabetes Day, AFN Regional Chief Katherine Whitecloud says Health Canada has taken a step in the right direction

OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 14, 2007 - Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Katherine Whitecloud is wearing a pedometer today, in recognition of World Diabetes Day as a gesture to promote exercise as a way of controlling diabetes. She says she's pleased to see Health Canada is also taking positive steps to better serve First Nations people with diabetes. Read More>>

Province supports prevention and management of diabetes through 10-year strategy

EDMONTON, AB, Nov. 14, 2007 - Alberta leads a 10-year strategy to raise awareness of diabetes and help those living with diabetes to manage their health. Read More>>

Tobique First Nation chosen for pilot project

FREDERICTON, NB, Nov. 14, 2007 - Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Ed Doherty, who is also Minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs, today congratulated Tobique First Nation on being chosen by Health Canada to participate in a two-year diabetes pilot project. Read More>>

New Study Finds an Alarming Number of Women in Canada's North Face Homelessness

OTTAWA, Nov. 14, 2007 - A pan-territorial study on homelessness paints a disturbing picture of the despair many women in the North are facing on a daily basis. Read More>>

U of T prof takes up natives' challenge

Nov. 14, 2007 - Broken Promises in Promised Land: This was the title of a major pubic forum organized recently by Dr. Chandrakant P. Shah, one of Canada's foremost experts on the health issues of aboriginal peoples, at the University of Toronto. Read More>>

Diabetes fundraiser targets riders

REGINA, SK, Nov. 13, 2007 - City slickers with a little horse sense will be able to take part in a wild horse round-up next fall. Read More>>

Scientist calls for more study of Athabasca

Nov. 13, 2007 - Regardless of whether high trace metal levels found in water south of Fort Chipewyan are caused by the oilsands, they pose a health risk and deserve further probing, says an independent Alberta water scientist. Read More>>

Feds are targeting me for reporting cancer-pollution link: whistle-blower

Nov. 12, 2007 - John O'Connor first suspected something was wrong a few years ago, after the family physician discovered a rare form of cancer in a small northern Alberta community of 1,200 people. Read More>>

Pilot project could help establish dialysis unit: official

Nov. 10, 2007 - The Ochapowace First Nation will be participating in a Health Canada diabetes wait-time guarantee pilot project tracking patients to ensure they have timely access to assessment and education services. Read More>>

Diabetes: A silent killer

Nov. 10, 2007 - We, in North America, are the fattest people who ever walked the face of the earth. Read More>>

Smoking warning for First Nations

Nov. 10, 2007 - First Nations communities in Ontario are seeing a big jump in the number of people developing lung cancer and cheap illegal cigarettes are to blame. Read More>>

High levels of poisons found in water downsteam of oilsand

Nov. 9, 2007 - High levels of cancer-causing toxins are being found in areas downstream of Fort McMurray's oilsands, says a study commissioned by residents of Alberta's oldest community. Read More>>

IHS, Canada renew collaborative effort

WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 09, 2007 - The Department of Health and Human Services celebrated Native American Heritage Month in the United States Nov. 1 with Canada. Read More>>

Nursing strategy offers more cash, other incentives

Nov. 9, 2007 - Community health nurses in Nunavut know what they need to stay on the job. Read More>>

Okalik mum on ­suicide plan details

Nov. 9, 2007 - Keith Peterson, MLA for Cambridge Bay, asked Premier Paul Okalik four simple questions about Nunavut's much-vaunted suicide prevention plan, released by the government in June, during question period Oct. 31. He did not receive one coherent answer. Read More>>

Manitoba reserve fires child-welfare workers

Nov. 9, 2007 - A Manitoba First Nation has kicked child-welfare workers off the reserve, saying its members are tired of their heavy-handed efforts. Read More>>

Traditional Food Consumption Study Initiated in Municipality of Wood Buffalo

Fort McMurray, AB, Nov. 8, 2007 - The Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) is pleased to announce that research will begin next week on a Traditional Food Consumption Study, involving Aboriginal Peoples in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.Read More >>

Native Women's Association of Canada : Sisters in Spirit to visit Yukon

Ottawa, ON, Nov. 8, 2007 – Following the success of the historic National Aboriginal Women’s Summit this past summer in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Native Women’s Association of Canada President Beverley Jacobs will be in Yukon next week to present at the very first Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Summit (YAWS). Read More>>

Cancer fears spark call to halt oilsands growth

CALGARY, Nov. 8, 2007 - Aboriginal leaders living downstream of oilsands developments in Alberta's northeast Athabasca region are renewing calls for a moratorium on new oilsands projects due to high levels of carcinogens found in water, sediment and wildlife. Read More>>

Drug prevention program encourages smart decision-making

Nov. 6, 2007 - Hundreds of elementary school students were pitted in a race Tuesday against drugs as part of a themed approach being used to steer youngsters away from destructive recreational use of alcohol and drugs. Read More>>

Health Canada: First Nations Communities Selected to Host Patient Wait Time Guarantees Pilot Projects

OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 6, 2007 - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, today announced the selection of First Nations communities that will undertake pilot projects designed to test Patient Wait Time Guarantees for prenatal care and diabetes. Read More>>

Mental health grads go to work

NUNAVUT, Nov. 5, 2007 - Recent graduates of the territory's first Mental Health Diploma Program are already doing their work placements, providing much-needed services to Nunavummiut. Read More>>

Disappearance of indigenous baby boys tied to industrial pollution

Nov. 5, 2007 - Research released this month of only girls being born in the villages of northern Greenland has brought to light earlier studies that found indigenous mothers living in the northern most reaches of the Arctic Circle are having girls – but not boys. Read More>>

Are Boys An Endangered Species?

Nov. 5, 2007 - Half as many boys as girls are being born in some places around the world—and pollution is the prime suspect. Read More>>

The Government of Canada Supports Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women

EDMONTON, AB, Nov. 5, 2007 - On behalf of the Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, Laurie Hawn, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence and Member of Parliament (Edmonton Centre), today announced funding for the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women. Read More>>

Canada, U.S. to continue mutual efforts to improve Natives' health

WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 5, 2007 - U.S. and Canadian health officials signed a memorandum Thursday agreeing to continue working together to improve the health of indigenous peoples in the two countries. Read More>>

Sewage problems assessed in spring by Health Canada

Nov. 05, 2007 - The Northwestern Health Unit survey released last week showing devastating septic conditions on the Mishkeegogamang First Nation was not the first of its kind. Read More>>

Nunavut foster family association in the works

Nov. 05, 2007 - Nunavut's health minister says she hopes setting up a territorial foster parents' group will encourage more people to take in foster children. Read More>>

Prime Minister Harper outlines the government's achievements for Aboriginal Canadians

Nov. 2, 2007 - In an address to the annual general assembly of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper outlined the Government's actions for Canadians of native ancestry. Read More>>

Kids push for more help, programs from KIA

KUGLUKTUK, Nov. 2, 2007 - Young people in Kugluktuk need a shelter to go to when "houses are not safe due to alcohol and drug consumption and card games," Chad Keadjuk told the recent Kitikmeot Inuit Association annual general meeting in Cambridge Bay. Read More>>

Aboriginal youth speak out at conference

Nov. 1, 2007 - First Nations youth are speaking up. Roughly 500 native young people voiced their desire for a stronger partnership and presence among community leaders at the third National Assembly of First Nation Youth Summit in Winnipeg yesterday. Read More>>

Government of Canada Renews Memorandum of Understanding on Indigenous Health with the United States of America

WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 1, 2007 - The Honourable Tony Clement, Federal Minister of Health and Secretary of Health, Mike Leavitt, of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, today renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Indigenous Health at a signing ceremony in Washington, DC. Read More>>

AFN National Chief accepts historic 'rebuilding our nations Youth Accord'

OTTAWA, Nov. 1, 2007 - Today, hundreds of First Nations youth from across Canada gathered in Winnipeg to complete a draft five-year action plan called: The Rebuilding Our Nations Youth Accord. Read More>>

Septic systems ‘bad news’ story for northern First Nation

Nov. 01, 2007 - The same team that discovered gross inadequacies in the Pikangikum water supply has released a health report showing pandemic conditions of sewage systems on the First Nation of Mishkeegogamang. Read More>>

Annual flu campaign ready to take off in Kivalliq

RANKIN INLET, Oct. 31, 2007 - Kivalliq residents are being asked to roll up their sleeves in the fight against influenza this winter. Read More>>

Local First Nation faces high suicide rate

Oct. 30, 2007 - The Tsuu T’ina First Nation suffers from a suicide rate nearly five times the non-Native provincial average, states a report from a fatality inquiry into a youth who took his life. Read More>>

Women's History Month a time to honour First Nations Women

OTTAWA, Oct. 30, 2007 - Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Phil Fontaine and Kathleen McHugh, Chair of the AFN Women's Council, say Woman's History Month is a time to honour the accomplishments of First Nations women and the central role they play in their families and communities. Read More>>

Six women studying in maternal care course

IQALUIT, Oct. 29, 2007 - Six women are in training to bring birthing back home through the maternity care worker program in Iqaluit this year. Read More>>

Qikiqtani General Hospital opens to great fanfare

IQALUIT, Oct. 29, 2007 - An 11-year plan to improve health care in the Baffin Region came to fruition with the grand opening of the Qikiqtani General Hospital on Friday, Oct. 19. Read More>>

Canada's First Nations should benefit from Global Tobacco Treaty

OTTAWA, Oct. 29, 2007 - "The Canadian government has abandoned tobacco control in First Nations communities," asserted Atul Kapur, President of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. Read More>>

A symbol of health, healing

PICTOU LANDING FIRST NATION, NS, Oct. 27, 2007 - The symbolism was not lost on the crowd when a single eagle soared overhead during the opening on Friday of the Pictou Landing First Nation’s new health centre. Read More>>

Ailing CamBay health centre finds a cure

CAMBRIDGE BAY, Oct. 26, 2007 - Sheets of plywood nailed over the Kitikmeot Health Centre's second floor windows and back entrance are the last visible remains of an Aug. 1 fire that caused $2.2 million in damages and closed the facility for six weeks. Read More>>

After 11 years and $64 million: a hospital

Oct. 26, 2007 - The new Qikiqtani General Hospital finally opened in Iqaluit on Friday, Oct. 19, after 11 years of planning and $64 million spent, with a fitting prayer. Read More>>

Kugluktuk says yes to alcohol committee

CAMBRIDGE BAY Oct. 26, 2007 - Encouraged by their young people, more than 60 per cent of Kugluktuk voters said that they support the creation of an alcohol education committee in a community-wide referendum held Monday, Oct. 22. Read More>>

Eel Ground School Invites Media and Aboriginal Participation with Ground Breaking Video Conference on Teenage Stress/Suicide Prevention

EEL GROUND, N.B., Oct. 25, 2007 - On Thursday, November 1st. Eel Ground First Nation School in partnership with Atlantic First Nation Help Desk will host the National Video Conference on Teenage Stress/Suicide Prevention featuring the World Premiere of “After the Thunder: The Simon Bishop Story”. Read More>>

Shining a light on research

Oct. 24, 2007 - On the same day that the Faculty of Health Professions flung open the doors to a new home for research at Dalhousie, it took the time to reflect on recent research successes. Read More>>

Aboriginal conditions examined

Oct. 24, 2007 - A new study aims to examine the conditions of Winnipeg's aboriginal population. Read More>>

'Proud' Inuit youth hail prohibition plebiscite

Oct. 24, 2007 - The youth of Kugluktuk learned yesterday they had won a determined campaign to curb the rampant alcohol abuse of their parents and relatives in their remote Arctic village. Read More>>

Battling the Bottle

Oct. 23, 2007 - Bootleggers. Drunkenness. Suicide. Kugluktuk, Nunavut has plenty of problems. But this time, the children are demanding solutions. See Video>>

Winnipeg's urban aboriginal community goes under microscope

Oct. 23, 2007 - An international group that usually works with the World Bank and the United Nations has teamed up with First Nations leaders in Manitoba for a study on the urban life of aboriginal people. Read More>>

Build communities, protect environment to assert Arctic sovereignty: Inuit leader

Oct. 23, 2007 - The Conservative government must address the northern prosperity gap and protect the environment as part of its plan to assert Arctic sovereignty, says the head of the major Inuit organization. Read More>>

The North "like Darfur"

Oct. 23, 2007 - Most of the time, Nick Finney's job is to respond to rapid-onset humanitarian disasters — floods, earthquakes and health emergencies. But in First Nations communities in northern Canada last winter he witnessed "the slowest evolved disaster that I've ever worked in." Read More>>

The Chiefs of Ontario is offering the following Training to Community Support Services Workers: Healing Using Traditional Medicine

Oct. 22, 2007 - This workshop will examine a variety of traditional medicine plants, their healing properties and current and traditional application. Read More>>

Refocusing indigenous health

Oct. 22, 2007 - An article in the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health found a strong correlation between social support and health in Canadian indigenous people. Read More>>

Conference to look at health care, racism link

Oct 21, 2007 - Some folks prefer to see family doctors who are fresh out of graduate school, because young physicians are armed with the latest in medical education, while others want to consult veteran doctors because of their years of experience. Read More>>

New Iqaluit hospital officially opens

Oct. 19, 2007 - Nunavut leaders celebrated the opening of Iqaluit's new hospital Friday, but the territory's health minister warned that it will face challenges recruiting nurses and other medical staff for the facility. Read More>>

Healing, youth focus of Yukon residential school conference

Oct. 19, 2007 - Former residential school students attending a conference in Whitehorse this week say they want children and youth to get involved in the healing process. Read More>>

Aboriginal leader concerned about youth violence

Oct. 19, 2007 - Manitoba's top aboriginal leaders are meeting with the mayor of Winnipeg Friday to discuss youth crime. Read More>>

KIA rejects Aglukkaq’s plea for help

CAMBRIDGE BAY, Oct. 19, 2007 - Leona Aglukkaq, Nunavut's minister of health and social services, asked the Kitikmeot Inuit Association this week to use benefit agreements with mining companies to help her government deal with the social impact of mines in the region. Read More>>

Child welfare plans “grievously flawed,” says native group

Oct 18 2007 - BC Children’s ministry officials will meet with First Nations leaders concerned about what they call a “grievously flawed” consultation process in plans for a regional aboriginal child welfare program. Read More>>

Project tackles high amputation rates for aboriginal diabetics

Oct. 18, 2007 - Health officials are working to determine why aboriginal diabetics in Manitoba are much more likely to have a limb amputated than other people with the disease. Read More>>

Plight of poor, First Nations "national disgrace"

TORONTO, Oct 18, 2007 - Widespread poverty in Canada, particularly among aboriginal peoples, is tarnishing the international reputation of a country that considers itself a moral beacon to the rest of the world, activists told a union-led rally Wednesday. Read More>>

Send Ottawa health bill: Karwacki

REGINA, Oct. 18, 2007 - Since the federal Conservative government is unwilling to negotiate with Saskatchewan on equalization, David Karwacki says Ottawa should be billed $1.1 billion for failing to meet its obligation to First Nations people. Read More>>

Casino gives to cancer centre

Oct. 18, 2007 - A major contribution by a First Nations-owned casino is slated to help the development of a new cancer centre. Read More>>

Aboriginal Sports Circle selects executive director

Oct. 16, 2007 - The new executive for the Aboriginal Sports Circle is hoping their mandate to promote and increase the capacity of aboriginals in a variety of sports for officiating, athletic development and coaching will yield positive results. Read More>>

Throwing lifelines: Gee-Gees quarterback Sacobie becoming a beacon for aboriginal youth

OTTAWA, Oct. 15, 2007 - uOttawa quarterback Josh Sacobie is tied for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport lead in touchdown passes and is second in passing yards, helping the surging No. 2 Gee-Gees to a 7-0 record for the first time in eight seasons. Read More>>

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreading in cramped conditions

NUNAVUT, October 15, 2007 - The start of 2007 brought with it a skin infection previously unseen in Nunavut. Read More>>

Yukon Sport For Life Funding Announced

WHITEHORSE, October 15, 2007 – Community Services Minister Glenn Hart has announced that the second phase of the Yukon Sport for Life funding for 2007/08 has been awarded. Read More>>

Native community must embrace diversity within itself, youth told

EDMONTON, Oct. 15, 2007 - James Makokis stood in front of hundreds of aboriginal young people on Sunday wearing a dress. Read More>>

Oil Versus Water

Oct. 15, 2007 - Dene and Cree First Nations people live close to and in the midst of the largest tar sand deposit in the Athabasca River region and oil extraction is harming their water supply. Read More>>

Arts project aims to help at-risk youth

Oct. 14, 2007 - Best known for his role as a troubled teen on television, Edmonton-based actor Dakota House is using the arts to reach out to at-risk aboriginal youth. Read More>>

AFN chief urges Harper to show commitment to First Nations in throne speech

TORONTO, Oct. 13, 2007 - First Nations will be watching the throne speech closely next week to see just how committed Prime Minister Stephen Harper is to ensuring the well-being of Canada's aboriginal peoples, the country's top native leader said Friday. Read More>>

UN to be asked to inspect reserves

Oct. 12, 2007 - A large Quebec umbrella group for aboriginal peoples said it will ask the United Nations to send inspectors onto Quebec reserves to examine how the federal government conforms to the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the UN General Assembly on Sept. 12. Read More>>

The doctor is out

RANKIN INLET, NU, Oct. 12, 2007 - Health care providers in Rankin Inlet have a gleaming, well-equipped, two-storey health centre. What they really need now are some doctors. Read More>>

No quick fix for agency nurse problem: Aglukkaq

Oct. 12, 2007 - Nunavut can't immediately reduce its dependency on agency nurses who may fill as many as two in three nursing jobs across the territory, says Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq. Read More>>

Shelter from a storm of booze and violence

RANKIN INLET, NU, Oct. 12, 2007 - The Kataujaq Safe Shelter is empty now, but Evelyn Thordarson doesn't expect it to stay that way for long. Read More>>

A life of daily danger

Oct. 11, 2007 - As night falls over Montreal, the disturbing reality facing many First Nations people in this city becomes apparent as the park benches, alleyways and stairwells surrounding Cabot Square, at Atwater metro, transform into sleeping dens for dozens of urban indigenous people, most originating from Northern Quebec. Read More>>

Red tape keeps native families at risk in mouldy, flood-prone homes: critics

OTTAWA, Oct. 10, 2007 - Families are still living in mould-contaminated homes more than two months after Health Canada called for immediate repairs on the Fort Albany First Nation in northern Ontario. Read More>>

TB victim tells his tale

YELLOWKNIFE, Oct. 10, 2007 - Quarantined in a hospital room, John Gruben seldom had visitors. Read More>>

Visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing: The Housing Policy for First Nations: a Complete Failure

KAHNAWAKE, QC, Oct. 10, 2007 - Within the scope of his visit toCanada, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Mr. Miloon Kothari, met today with the Chief of the AFNQL, Ghislain Picard, who was accompanied for the occasion by Chief Simon Coocoo (Wemotaci), Chief Raphael Picard (Pessamit) and Mr. Jimmy Papatie (representative of Kitcisakik). Read More>>

Conversation on health ends with record participation

VICTORIA, BC, Oct. 10, 2007 - The final numbers are in. The Conversation on Health has ended with over 12,000 submissions and thousands more people taking part in public forums, providing their ideas on the future of the health system. Read More>>

Silicone contaminants could drift north: researchers

Oct. 9, 2007 - Silicone-based chemicals used in some hair and body products are raising alarm among scientists who say such pollutants could enter the Arctic environment and end up in the northern food chain. Read More>>

Study probes link between soapstone and cancer

Oct. 9, 2007 - Forty-six-year-old Jimmy Cookie feels dizzy and has trouble breathing every time he carves into a slab of soapstone. Read More>>

Aboriginals to deliver family services

MAPLE RIDGE, BC, Oct. 6, 2007 - It's not going to be an overnight process, turning heavy responsibilities such as youth justice and child protection over to First Nations agencies. But in a few years, hopefully at least by 2020, aboriginal faces will be alongside white faces when an aboriginal family needs help. Read More>>

Traditional food better despite pollutants, researchers say

Oct. 5, 2007 - Northerners should continue to eat traditional food despite the presence of contaminants, researchers told a northern contaminants workshop in Lake Louise, Alta., on Thursday. Read More>>

Vouchers replace cash on dry reserve in bootlegging fight

Oct. 5, 2007 - Band officials are taking drastic steps to eliminate bootlegging on the Pauingassi First Nation, a remote Manitoba reserve where alcohol is prohibited. Read More>>

Nunavik resident sought for health forum

Oct. 5, 2007 - If you want to make a difference in Nunavik's health care and social services system, then Quebec's new health and welfare commissioner wants you. Read More>>

Scientist helps Nunavik say no to trans fats

Oct. 4, 2007 - Northern Quebec's Nunavik region could soon be one of the first in Canada to ban trans fats, with the help of a Quebec researcher who says they cause health problems that are becoming a major concern in the North. Read More>>

Carving to blame?

Oct. 4, 2007 - U of M will soon lead what it calls a historic research project to determine whether soapstone carving, hunting and other cultural activities are causes of lung disease among Canada's northern Inuit people - who are dying of the ailment at higher rates than any others across the country. Read More>>

Native group sponsors vigils to underline plight of aboriginal women

OTTAWA, Oct. 4, 2007 - More than 30 vigils were held Thursday across the country to denounce a continuing epidemic of violence against aboriginal women. Read More>>

Native leader downplays report that says substance abuse problematic with payouts

WINNIPEG, Oct. 4, 2007 - As he introduced the recipient of the first residential school payment Thursday, Canada's top First Nations leader continued to suggest it may be racist to question how that money gets spent - despite a report by a national agency for victims that has raised the same worries. Read More>>

Sarnia's emissions affecting health, study says

Sarnia is fabled as Canada's chemical valley because of its many petroleum plants, but a new study says the community's industrial prosperity has a dark side: The area is the most polluted in Ontario when it comes to smokestack emissions. Read More>>

National suicide conference this weekend

YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, Oct. 3, 2007 - Yellowknife's youth suicide prevention programs have helped the city land the National Suicide Conference this weekend. Read More>>

Sharing the story of a missing sister

Oct. 3, 2007 - Barely blinking her almond-shaped eyes, Sandra Gagnon reveals how time has whittled down her family. Read More>>

U.S. researcher gets grant to fight diabetes

OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 3, 2007 - A researcher at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center received a $6.6 million grant to help fight diabetes, particularly among the state's American Indian population. Read More>>

Northern leaders decry Environment Canada budget cuts

Oct. 3, 2007 - Northern aboriginal leaders demanded answers from Ottawa on Tuesday about changes at Environment Canada, fearing that budget cuts and staff changes there could spell trouble for northern environmental programs. Read More>>

Assembly of First Nations to Host 3rd National Youth Summit, Develop 5 Year Action Plan

OTTAWA, ON, Oct. 2, 2007 - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine is pleased to announce that the 3rd National Youth Summit, Rebuilding Our Nations - National Unity, Voices from the Community, will takeplace from October 30 to November 1, 2007 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. Read More>>

Second Annual Sisters in Spirit vigil asks “What has changed?”

OTTAWA, ON, Oct. 2, 2007 – Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) President Beverley Jacobs and Amnesty International Canada Secretary General Alex Neve will hold a press conference on October 4 along with family member Sandra Gagnon to ask “What has changed?” in regards to the racism, discrimination and horrific levels of violence facing Canada’s Aboriginal women. Read More>>

Aboriginal kids face provincial care problems

Oct. 2, 2007 - On-reserve aboriginal kids who enter the Children's Services system in Alberta face potentially substandard care compared with children in urban centres, Alberta's auditor general has concluded. Read More>>

Aboriginal health worker a model for Interior communities

Oct. 2, 2007 - Barb Mack is a friendly face that greets patients in need at the Cariboo Memorial Hospital emergency room. Read More>>

Access to Healthcare May Lead to Lower Amputation Rates for First Nations Communities

Oct. 1, 2007 - Canadian First Nations people are at much higher risk for type 2 diabetes and its risk factors than the overall Canadian population. Read More>>

Nunavut risks losing more nurses

Oct. 1, 2007 - Nunavut is in danger of losing the few home-grown nurses the territory has fostered, according to a graduate of the Nunavut Nursing Program, one of the GN's much-lauded solutions to the health staffing crunch. Read More>>

AIDS walk highlights need for support

Oct. 1, 2007 - Christal Capostinsky has been HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) positive for close to 13 years. Read More>>

Contaminant levels dropping among Arctic mothers, blood studies show

Sept. 29, 2007 - A new study has found that levels of contaminants, including lead, mercury and PCBs, are all dropping in the bodies of some aboriginal mothers, suggesting that global efforts to reduce pollutants accumulating in Arctic food animals may be paying off. Read More>>

Native teens provide input on risky drinking

Sept. 28, 2007 - Local Aboriginal youth offered their suggestions and ideas to the Thunder Bay District Health Unit Friday on better ways to tackle risky, or binge drinking in the region. Read More>>

Nurses worry about hospital safety

Sept. 28, 2007 - Iqaluit nurses fear the danger, stress and daily grind of their poorly-paid jobs will follow them to the Qikiqtani Regional Hospital, when it opens Oct. 19. Read More>>

Staff nurses feel undervalued, shortchanged by pay policy

Sept. 28, 2007 - It's hard to escape the conclusion that the Government of Nunavut values the work done by short-term contractors over that done by its full-time, indeterminate employees. Read More>>

Nunavut tops in Canada for teen moms

Sept. 28, 2007 - Young, single and pregnant: Nunavut babies are still much more likely to have unmarried teenaged mothers than anywhere else in the country. Read More>>

Walk honours native victims of violence

Sept. 26, 2007 - A large turnout is expected Wednesday night at a march in memory of missing and murdered Anishnawbe and Metis women. Read More>>

Storytelling critical to healing process

Sept. 26, 2007 - The history of residential schools is still fresh in the minds of many aboriginal people living in Saskatchewan, where the last school closed in 1996. Read More>>

FASD funding awarded to B.C. communities

VICTORIA, Sept. 26, 2007 - The Victoria Foundation has awarded funds to 40 projects throughout B.C. from the $10-million Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Action Fund established by the B.C. Ministry of Children and Family Development in March 2006. Read More>>

Nike unveils shoe designed for American Indians

BEAVERTON, OREGON, Sept. 26, 2007 - Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates. Read More>>

New Mental Health Commission takes up gauntlet

Sept. 26, 2007 - Neuropsychiatric disorders contribute more to the global burden of illness than heart disease, cancer or stroke, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which blames such conditions for 14% of the global burden of disease. Read More>>

Canada's New Government continues its commitment to the North

IQALUIT, NU, Sept. 25, 2007 - The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, today announced funding for 10 International Polar Year (IPY) projects which focus research on human health and environmental impacts of climate change in the Canadian North. Read More>>

Walk to honour victim

Sept. 25, 2007 - The Gordon's First Nation wants its community to be aware of the dangers and tragedies of drunk driving. Read More>>

Canadian pediatricians recommend more vitamin D for pregnant, nursing women

TORONTO, Sept. 25, 2007 - Pregnant women and nursing mothers should talk to their doctors about taking a daily supplement of 2,000 international units of vitamin D, the Canadian Paediatric Society said Monday. Read More>>

Canadian mothers and babies don't get enough vitamin D

OTTAWA, Sept. 24, 2007 - Canadian mothers and babies, especially those in northern communities, aren't getting enough vitamin D, according to a new statement by the Canadian Paediatric Society. Read More>>

Labrador’s aboriginal groups recognize world suicide prevention day

Sept 24, 2007 - The honking horns of support were all you could hear from motorists during the first annual suicide prevention walk last Sunday. Read More>>

Marchers target violence against women

Sept. 21, 2007 - At the annual Take Back the Night march and rally, organizers placed emphasis on the violence faced by aboriginal women. Read More>>

Scrubbing best way to swat superbug

Sept. 21, 2007 - Wash, wash, wash your hands - that's the most effective way to avoid catching or spreading the superbug, which recently killed a young girl in Nunavut. Read More>>

Inuit fare yields to nutritionist's nightmare

Sept. 20, 2007 - The Inuit Health Survey, headed by a McGill University epidemiologist, uses the Amundsen icebreaker as a floating medical centre. Part 6 of our seven-day series, On Thin Ice. Read More>>

'How can they ever compensate?'; Survivors of residential schools apply for settlement cash

Sept. 19, 2007 - Barbara Riley was ripped from her Walpole Island home at age 10 and stripped of her Ojibwa culture. Read More>>

More than $1.3 Million invested for sex health education

Sept. 19, 2007 - Improved testing for sexually transmitted infections and sex health education for at-risk Manitobans is on the way through a $1.3-million investment by the provincial government. Read More>>

Applications sought by NH

Sept. 19, 2007 - The seventh annual call is out by Northern Health for applications for aboriginal health initiatives projects to promote healthier lifestyles among First Nations people. Read More>>

Native youths facing crisis: report

WINNIPEG, Sept. 18, 2007 - Aboriginal youth in Canada face astonishing challenges in various facets of their lives, according to a report being released today in Winnipeg by a national poverty group. Read More>>

AFN applauds anti-poverty strategy for First Nations children and youth

OTTAWA, Sept. 18, 2007 - National Chief Phil Fontaine isapplauding the National Council on Welfare for its denunciation of the harmfuldecisions and broken promises made by successive governments that have left somany Aboriginal people destitute. Read More>>

Officials fear spikes in violence, alcohol and drug use

OTTAWA, Sept. 18, 2007 — Nearly $2 billion in native residential schools compensation will be a mixed blessing, say frontline workers who fear major spikes in alcohol and drug use, family violence and exploitation. Read More>>

First Nations CFS holds annual general meeting

Sept. 18, 2007 - Child and family service workers and aboriginal leaders agree a more holistic approach is needed to aid First Nations families across southern Manitoba. Read More>>

Bolder action needed to give Aboriginal children and youth a decent life

OTTAWA, Sept. 18, 2007 - A new report released today concludes that bolder, more innovative government action is needed to give Aboriginal children and youth a decent chance in life. Read More>>

Inuit gather in Apex to commemorate TB victims

IQALUIT, Sept. 17, 2007 - Thirty-seven years after the vessel C.D. Howe made its final medical patrol to the North, Inuit gathered in Apex to remember those who died far from home in the tuberculosis epidemic, and celebrate those who returned home healthy. Read More>>

Nunavut researchers assess diabetes among Inuit

Sept. 14, 2007 - Medical researchers working aboard an Arctic icebreaker near Pangnirtung, Nunavut, this week say Type 2 diabetes is one of their major health concerns they're looking for in Inuit. Read More>>

Iqaluit residents prodded and poked

Sept. 14, 2007 - A Shipborne health study is promising to pay dividends of better statistics and follow-up treatment for Iqaluit residents. Read More>>

Nunavut to get alcohol treatment centre

Sept. 14, 2007 - Nunavut's premier, Paul Okalik, wants to see an alcohol abuse treatment centre built in the territory. Read More>>

Hospital placed under informal trusteeship

Sept. 14, 2007 - After lurching from crisis to crisis for years, Puvirnituq's Inuulitsivik hospital is now under a form of trusteeship - although Quebec prefers to call the new management "close observation." Read More>>

Cheam take drug fight to community level

Sept. 14, 2006 - Imagine finding out your nephew, who lives just a few doors away, is making or selling drugs. That’s the challenge close-knit aboriginal communities face as they battle the spread of drugs. Read More>>

Aboriginals' spiritual needs focus of Oct. 16 talk

KINGSTON, ON, Sept. 14, 2006 - Health care professionals and members of the public are invited to a talk on the spiritual needs of Aboriginal patients, family and staff, to be held Oct. 16 at the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre. Read More>>

Aboriginal Wellness and Learning Centre opens at Hillside Beach, Manitoba

WINNIPEG, MB, Sept. 12, 2007 - Aboriginal youth and families in need of spiritual guidance and cultural teaching will find support at the new Windy Hill Learning and Wellness Centre. Read More>>

First Nation team walks for diabetes

Sept. 12, 2007 - Three First Nation young people will soon be headed to sunny Hawaii to walk for a good cause on December 9. Read More>>

Man-made chemicals blamed as many more girls than boys are born in Arctic

Sept. 12, 2007 - Twice as many girls as boys are being born in some Arctic villages because of high levels of man-made chemicals in the blood of pregnant women, according to scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (Amap). Read More>>

Grandmothers unite to fight alcohol abuse

Sept. 12, 2007 - Growing up on an Alberta Cree reserve, Theresa Whiskeyjack would always listen closely when the community's elderly residents offered up words of advice. Read More>>

Nunavut health group to commemorate Inuit TB victims

Sept. 11, 2007 - Members of a major health project in Nunavut are holding a ceremony on Tuesday to remember Inuit who lost their lives to tuberculosis in the 1950s and '60s. Read More>>

First Nation pleads for suicide help

TOFINO, B.C., Sept. 11, 2007 — Members of a West Coast Vancouver Island First Nation are searching for answers following two attempted suicides this past weekend and one successful suicide in early August. Read More>>

Winnipeg aboriginal group launches lakeside retreat centre

Sept. 11, 2007 - A Winnipeg aboriginal group is opening a new centre to help disadvantaged young people get away from the pressures of the street and relax in cottage country. Read More>>

Suicide prevention in spotlight across Nunavut

Sept. 10, 2007 - World Suicide Day was observed on Monday across Nunavut, which has one of the highest suicide rates in Canada. Read More>>

Inuit Groups Stage Parliament Hill Traditional Gathering To Recognize World Suicide Prevention Day

OTTAWA, Sept. 9, 2007 – To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, on September 10th 2007, Inuit organizations in Ottawa are staging a lunchtime traditional gathering on Parliament Hill beside the eternal flame to recognize World Suicide Prevention Day. Read More>>

One obese Winnipegger completes run across Prairies for diabetes research

WINNIPEG, Sept. 8, 2007 - Cole Choken used to be able to polish off four pizzas and a box of chicken in one evening. But after shedding 100 pounds and training for months, the 21-year-old completed a marathon across the prairies Saturday, raising money for diabetes research. Read More>>

Health call goes out

Sept. 7, 2007 -Northern Health is making an early call for the next round of applications for funding as its Aboriginal Health Initiatives Program (AHIP) enters its seventh year. Read More>>

Meno Ya Win Health Centre a step closer

Sept. 8, 2007 - Completion of the Meno Ya Win Health Centre in Sioux Lookout in 2010 will fulfill the “hopes and dreams” of quality health care services for area First Nations, Frank Beardy claims. Read More>>

Canada's New Government and the Government of Alberta sign agreement with Peace Country Health to increase aboriginal employment and economic opportun

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB, Sept. 7, 2007 - Canada's New Government, the Government of Alberta and Peace Country Health Region (PCH) today signed a partnership agreement to promote career and employment opportunities for Aboriginal people in the area of health care. Read More>>

After the settlement comes healing, closure

Sept. 6, 2007 - The federal government's Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement–the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history–will take effect on September 19. Read More>>

More Iqaluit Inuit needed for major health survey

Sept. 5, 2007 - Finding Inuit in Iqaluit to take part in Canada's largest Inuit health survey is proving to be a challenge for the research team, which is preparing to arrive in the Nunavut capital later this week. Read More>>

First Nation warns of elder abuse

Sept. 04, 2007 - Long Plain First Nation and Portage la Prairie RCMP are concerned about the possibility of elderly abuse rising after residential school survivors receive their compensation money. Read More>>

It's remote, it's challenging, it's worth it

KUUJJUAQ, QC, Sept. 1, 2007 - This Arctic community near the northern tip of Quebec is not where you might expect to find a recently retired NHL star moving into the neighbourhood. Read More>>

Prime Minister Announcement on Mental Health Falls Short on Helping Those Most At Risk in Canada: First Nations

OTTAWA, August 31, 2007 - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine said today's announcement by the Prime Minister is not an adequate response to First Nations' calls for a comprehensive mental wellness program. Read More>>

Mental health panel aims to stamp out discrimination

August 31, 2007 - The federal government officially launched the new Canadian Mental Health Commission on Friday in a bid to erase the social stigmas that prevent many from getting the medical treatment they need. Read More>>

Inuit leader tackles mental-health 'crisis'

August 31, 2007 - At 60, the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada's national Inuit organization, is taking on a new challenge, travelling the country as part of a federal commission seeking ways to improve mental-illness services. Read More>>

Homeless hospitalized more often for mental illness: study

August 31, 2007 - Homeless people in Canada have more mental health problems than the rest of the population, leading to higher hospitalization rates, says a new report released Thursday. Read More>>

Quebec pledges millions to fight child abuse

KUUJJUAQ, QC, August 31, 2007 - In an all-out effort to save Nunavik's children from abuse and neglect, Quebec will pump an additional $5.5 million each year into Nunavik's health and social services department, along with $31 million to build new staff housing for social service workers. Read More>>

A book to inspire future non-smokers

August 31, 2007 - From now until the end of September, the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services wants to hear how you quit smoking. Read More>>

Canada's New Government Announces Historic Health Care Agreement with Northern Ontario First Nations

MOOSONEE, ON, August 30, 2007 - The Honourable Tony Clement, Federal Minister of Health, announced today a new plan to resolve the duplication of health care services and health care gaps for First Nations in the Northern Ontario Weeneebayko region. Read More>>

Hockey gear brings hope to First Nations kids

OSHAWA, ON, August 30, 2007 - It may look like bags of skates and jerseys, but to Grand Chief Stan Beardy, the hockey equipment overflowing from Oshawa MPP Jerry Ouellette's office is a lifesaver. Read More>>

Cultural exchange: Maori elders visit Sudbury

August 28, 2007 - A group of four New Zealanders visited Greater Sudbury Monday and Tuesday of this week as they make their way to an international conference on mental health issues in Ottawa. Read More>>

Saugeen Nation wants $1 billion over spraying

The chief of the Saugeen Nation north of Ignace is not happy with herbicide spraying in area forests and plans to seek $1 billion in compensation from senior levels of government. Read More>>

Survivors of Indian schools share stories to assist healing

MONCTON, N.B., August 28, 2007 - Chief Terry Paul’s voice quavers with emotion as he describes the abuse he suffered as a young boy, stripped of his freedom and his culture at one of Canada’s former Indian residential schools. Read More>>

Canada's New Government Announces $1 million to support Aboriginal Nursing Program at the University of Lethbridge

STANDOFF, AB, August 28, 2007 – Today, Rick Casson, Member of Parliament for Lethbridge, on behalf of Federal Minister of Health, the Honourable Tony Clement, announced $1 million over three years under the Aboriginal Health Human Resources Initiative to help increase the number of Aboriginal nurses working in Canada's health care system, particularly in First Nations communities. Read More>>

Gestational diabetes linked to kids' obesity

August, 28 2007 - Treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances that their baby will become obese during childhood, reports a study in Diabetes Care. Read More>>

Midwives go high-tech

IQALUIT, August 27, 2007 - The Ajunnginiq Centre launched a trilingual midwifery website last week, which supporters say will help strengthen the ties among midwives throughout the Inuit regions. Read More>>

Addicts now have a place they can call home

REGINA, SK, August 27, 2007 - Addicts struggling to overcome their addictions will have one less worry this fall -- they will have a place they can call home. Read More>>

Cancer fight gets a boost

August 25, 2007 - Cancer researchers at the University of Manitoba have landed some major funding from the federal government under a program intended to award funds to the best of the best. Read More>>

Oneida gains long-term care

August 24, 2007 - Health Minister George Smitherman announced hundreds of new long-term care home beds for the London area yesterday, including a new 64-bed home at the Oneida Nation of the Thames. Read More>>

Scientists seek key to mercury mystery

RESOLUTE BAY, August 24, 2007 - Arctic char in Resolute Lake contain amounts of methyl-mercury that exceed what Health Canada considers safe to eat regularly. Read More>>

Quebec to spend more than $170 million in north

August 24, 2007 - Quebec will spend $36.4 million to protect children from abuse and violence in northern Inuit communities, Health Minister Philippe Couillard announced Friday. Read More>>

Forum focuses on bringing training home

KENORA, ON, August 24, 2007 - Issues reflecting an evolving landscape dominated Thursday’s regional health forum between health and education administrators. Read More>>

TB outbreak has community on edge; each case 'connected through social networks'

PORT ALBERNI, August 24, 2007 - When Dolly McRae sees someone spit on the ground, she worries. Read More>>

Hundreds of Metis Citizens Set to Gather for Major Health Announcement in Kelowna

VANCOUVER, B.C., August 23, 2007 - The Metis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) will announce at its 10th AGM in Kelowna that it has received funding for the Aboriginal ActNow BC strategy, a partnership-based, community-focused cross-ministry health promotion initiative designed to address chronic disease and injury risk factors in the Aboriginal community. Read More>>

Nunavik children's welfare to top Kuujjuaq conference agenda

August 23, 2007 - The well-being of Inuit children in Nunavik is expected to be among the top issues at a major conference starting Thursday in Kuujjuaq, Que. Read More>>

Major toothaches for Labrador communtities

August 23, 2007 - An isolated Labrador community has been without a dentist for three years, and people who live there say they're struggling to get dental care outside the town. Read More>>

Three day youth conference focuses on culture, health

August 22, 2007 - Contributing to a week chock full of positive youth development, the Gitmaxmak’ay Nisga’a Society partnered with the Aboriginal Health Initiative Program and the Nisga’a Youth Society to host a three day conference around the issues of culture and health in our community. Read More>>

Plans lack direction: expert

August 22, 2007 - The federal government has set a new goal for reducing smoking rates, but the target is optimistic at best, according to experts in Saskatchewan. Read More>>

Researchers find hepatitis B clues in old northern blood

August 20, 2007 - A Canadian research scientist is using frozen blood samples, taken two decades ago from thousands of people across the North, in hopes of revealing new clues about hepatitis B. Read More>>

New Study Looks at the Potential Health Impacts of Residential School Lump Sum Payments

OTTAWA, August 20, 2007 – The Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s latest research study, released today, has been prepared in anticipation of the imminent arrival of the $1.9 billion Common Experience Payments, a central component of Canada’s Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. Read More>>

Nursing program needs teachers

August 18, 2007 - The local nurse shortage isn’t because nobody wants to work — it’s because nobody wants to teach. Read More>>

First Nation prepares for pandemic

August 17, 2007 - A Sturgeon Lake First Nation think tank is figuring out how to take care of its own people if a pandemic hits. Read More>>

A wave of support; March fights violence against aboriginal women

August 17, 2007 - The antidote for a violent epidemic rolled into the city Thursday as a wave of hope concluded its 265-kilometre journey at the North Bay Indian Friendship Centre. Read More>>

Health survey ship sparks lots of curiosity

NUNAVUT, August 17, 2007 - People ask a lot of questions when they hear a boat full of doctors and nurses is visiting their community. Read More>>

Booze brings wave of violence in Nunavik

August 17, 2007- This summer, the free flow of booze has wreaked havoc in the Hudson Bay communities of Nunavik, leading to stabbings, shootings, vandalism and accidents. Read More>>

Community leaders charged with bringing liquor to troubled First Nation

August 16, 2007 - A former chief and an addiction worker are facing liquor offences and a band councillor was convicted in May of a similar charge on the troubled Pauingassi First Nation, which made national headlines last week when a six-year-old boy was reportedly bullied to death. Read More>>

Rankin Inlet health centre scrambles to find doctor

August 16, 2007 - Rankin Inlet's regional health centre is facing a 'scary' predicament, the mayor of the Nunavut hamlet said Thursday. Read More>>

Whistleblower MD returns to Fort Chipewyan

August 16, 2007 - The doctor who blew the whistle on what he says are high cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, visited the oilsands hamlet this week with a promise he would continue to fight for a health study in the community. Read More>>

Mercury levels rising in some Nunavut lakes, scientists find

August 16, 2007 - Rising levels of mercury are showing up in lakes around Resolute Bay in Nunavut's High Arctic, federal researchers say. Read More>>

Sue for fair medical treatment, CMA editorial tells First Nations

August 16, 2007 - First Nation governments should sue to receive fair medical treatment, said an editorial published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Read More>>

Sick boy lacks full treatment, as governments debate who pays

August 15, 2007 - An aboriginal boy whose rare genetic disorder sparked a national debate two years ago over which government should pay for his drugs is still not receiving the full treatment for his illness. Read More>>

$22m plan aims to make one million healthier in B.C.

August 15, 2007 - Right now in British Columbia, only about half the population is considered at a healthy body weight, 20 per cent are smokers, 40 per cent are physically inactive and most -- 60 per cent -- don't eat the recommended daily serving of fruits and vegetables. Read More>>

Aboriginal physician travels world to study shamans, healers for new TV series

EDMONTON, August 14, 2007 - Sick with the flu, Dr. Daniele Behn Smith felt a ripple of fear as she stood on the outskirts of a tribal trance dance in Namibia and waited for a whirling, zombie-like medicine man to touch her chest. Read More>>

Fort Chip rally draws attention to water quality

August 14, 2007 - Organizers of an environmental rally in a remote northern Alberta community hope to draw international attention to the effects of oilsands development on drinking water. Read More>>

Governments failing native children, report says

August 14, 2007 - Hundreds of aboriginal children with severe medical problems are being reluctantly surrendered to welfare authorities and moved to institutions in big cities because federal and provincial health authorities cannot agree on who should pay to care for them in their home communities. Read More>>

Governments bickered while native toddler died, journal says

August 13, 2007 - A native child from northern Manitoba spent two years unnecessarily in a Winnipeg hospital where he died 500 kilometres from his family because of "warring bureaucrats," says a scathing editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Read More>>

Squabbling over who pays medical bills threatens First Nations kids: journal

TORONTO, August 13, 2007 - The Canadian Medical Association Journal is adding its voice to the chorus calling for federal, provincial and territorial governments to stop squabbling over who pays the bills when it comes to the medical needs of sick First Nations children. Read More>>

First Celebration Of Health, Small But Successful

UCLUELET, BC, August 13, 2007 - The First Annual Yu-cluth-aht Holistic Celebration of Health was a successful event that is expected to grow in the following years, says the event organizer. Read More>>

Que. Inuit community aims to run own government

August 13, 2007 - Quebec's large Inuit community living in the northern region of Nunavik will soon have greater autonomy, according to a new agreement-in-principle the community has made with the province and Ottawa. Read More>>

Walk highlights violence against aboriginal women

August 11, 2007 - The need to end violence against native women will be highlighted this week during a 265-kilometre walk ending at the North Bay Indian Friendship Centre Wednesday evening. Read More>>

120 in Nunavut may have rare virus

August 10, 2007 - An extremely rare sexually transmitted virus may affect more than 120 Nunavummiut, a health study has found. Read More>>

Workshops, music battle suicide

August 10, 2007 - As suicides continue to plague the area on the south-east shore of Lake of the Woods,, between 500 and 1,000 music fans were expected at scenic Assabaska Park near Morson, in an effort to shift the tide in aboriginal communities. Read More>>

Town pitches in after health centre fire

August 10, 2007 - Shortly after fire closed the Kitikmeot Health Centre Aug. 1, residents of Cambridge Bay helped lug stretchers, intravenous drips, electrocardiogram units and everything else needed to provide emergency care into the nearby community hall. Read More>>

Nunavik elders, officials to ­discuss child abuse and neglect

August 10, 2007 - Next week, about 25 Nunavik elders and officials from the region's organizations will meet for two days at the site of Old Chimo near Kuujjuaq to discuss social issues, including how to improve the lot of children and youth in the region. Read More>>

Youths learn from others' experiences; HIV-AIDS conference gives young people forum for discussion

August 10, 2007 - Katie Larivierre wants to help the youths of her community learn survival skills - but not the ones that keep a person alive in the bush or on the lake. Read More>>

Probe set for plan to give braces to aboriginal children

August 09, 2007 - Health Canada has commissioned a study of its multi-million-dollar orthodontics program for Aboriginal children, as some experts question whether installing braces should be a government priority in a population afflicted by a litany of other health and dental problems. Read More>>

Ghiz wants co-ordinator for native programs

MONCTON, NB, August 09, 2007 - Premier Robert Ghiz is promising to honour a commitment by the previous Tory administration to establish an aboriginal co-ordinator in Prince Edward Island. Read More>>

Mohawks have fitness in their future

August 08, 2007 - By late 2008, they hope to break ground on a sports complex that could include lacrosse facilities and two existing ball diamonds. Read More>>

Sault leads the e-health way

August 09, 2007 - With health care lagging behind other industries in reaping the benefits of information technology (IT), the Ontario government has launched a series of e-health programs with the goal of "integrating multiple sectors of the provincial health care system into a fully modern health care system." Read More>>

Broadview committee seeking results from NDP

August 09, 2007 - For the past 21/2 years the community and neighbouring First Nations and municipalities have been lobbying the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region and the province for the establishment of a dialysis clinic in Broadview. Read More>>

Premiers promise to play more active role in helping native communities

MONCTON, N.B., August 8, 2007 - Canada's premiers say they are staking out a greater role on aboriginal affairs now that the federal government has abandoned the $5 billion Kelowna accord to assist First Nations communities. Read More>>

Major Inuit health survey drops anchor in Nunavut

August 8, 2007 - The largest Inuit health survey ever conducted in Canada has begun in southern Hudson Bay, with doctors and other medical staff travelling across Nunavut aboard an Arctic icebreaker to test and chat with Inuit about their well-being. Read More>>

Upcoming Celebration Of Health

August 8, 2007 - The first annual Yu-cluth-aht Holistic Celebration of Health will be taking place in Ucluelet this weekend. Read More>>

Health care key topic at nurses' conference in Moncton

MONCTON, NB, Aug 7, 2007 - Nurses and health stakeholders fromacross the country will convene in Moncton, New Brunswick, tomorrow (August 8)to attend a conference on health care hosted by the Canadian Federation ofNurses Unions (CFNU). Read More>>

Rare blood virus found in almost 4 in 1,000 in Nunavut

Aug 7, 2007 - Almost four in every 1,000 people in Nunavut may have a rare, incurable yet preventable virus called HTLV-1, a research report prepared for the Nunavut government has found. Read More>>

Doctors, judges, lawyers agree more needs to be done about fetal alcohol exposure

REGINA, Aug 1, 2007 - They do what they can to help people suffering from the effects of being exposed to alcohol before they were born, but doctors, teachers, judges and lawyers all agree on one thing - the task is huge and the resources are scarce for a disorder perceived as being a problem of the poor. Read More>>

Inuit group calls for northern expertise on truth commission

July 30, 2007 - The organization representing Canada's Inuit hopes the federal government's truth and reconciliation commission, set up to hear from former residential school students, will include someone familiar with Inuit and northern issues. Read More>>

Homeseekers out in cold in Nunavut

July 29, 2007 - The housing situation is desperate in Nunavut, which means "our land" in Inuktitut. According to a recent Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation report, the vacancy rate is virtually zero. Read More>>

Coroner investigates drownings at 'healing camp'

July 28, 2007 - The chief coroner of the Northwest Territories is investigating the drownings of two youths who were left without adult supervision at a "healing camp" on an island in Great Slave Lake where they were taken for community service. Read More>>

Aboriginal garden grows more than just vegetables

July 27, 2007 - If it weren't for a garden in a field of green at UBC, Peggy August says she'd probably be at home "rotting in front of a TV." Read More>>

40 scientists set sail on mission to North

Jul 27, 2007 - A team from McGill University, headed by Grace Egeland, will conduct long-term research on the health of Inuit communities in the Ungava, James and Hudson Bay areas. Read More>>

Inuit infants may suffer life-long lung damage

July 27, 2007 - Many Inuit children in Nunavut will cough up mucus and endure life-threatening problems for the rest of their lives because of early childhood lung infections that leave their lungs scarred and permanently damaged, say doctors at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Read More>>

Child lung infections impose big costs on GN

July 27, 2007 - The cost of treating lung infections among Inuit children in the Baffin region is steep and continues to rise as the expense of transportation and southern-based medical treatment increase. Read More>>

Nunavut, N.W.T. seeing fewer underweight births: report

July 26, 2007 - Mothers in Nunavut are giving birth to fewer underweight babies, even though they still have one of the highest underweight birth rates in the country, according to new figures from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Read More>>

First Nations join conversation

SALMON ARM, BC, Jul 25 2007 - First Nations people are hoping a conversation on health will lead to changes to the way services are delivered to them. Read More>>

Co-operation on First Nations health begins

July 25, 2007 - Under the blistering sun at the Slant Lake blockade, government officials celebrated a chance at co-operation Tuesday. Read More>>

B.C. government rejects funding for wellness centre

CHILLIWACK, BC, July 24 2007 - Chief Joe Hall is mystified by the B.C. government’s decision last week not to help fund a wellness centre in the Chilliwack River Valley supported by police officials, provincial health authorities and politicians of all stripes – even his political rivals at the Sto:lo Tribal Council. Read More>>

Community Projects Funded To Improve Yukoners' Quality Of Life

WHITEHORSE, July 24, 2007 - Community Development Fund (CDF) has awarded grants to 18 community based projects working on improving the quality of life for Yukoners. This spring's Tier 2 funding totals over $750,000 and supports projects across Yukon. Read More>>

Province encouraged by education programs

THUNDER BAY, July 24, 2007 - The minister of training, colleges and universities was at Confederation College in the morning to announce that a joint nursing program involving the college and Lakehead University was showing success at the midway mark. Read More>>

Walking the good path

KUGLUKTUK, July 23, 2007 - A Kugluktuk high school student has been named one of 12 national Aboriginal role models for 2007. Read More>>

'Grave threat'; Mould, bacteria crisis strikes Fort Albany homes; physicians fear evacuation may be only solution

July 20, 2007 - Political officials scrambled Thursday and came just shy of calling a state of emergency to address mould and bacteria problems now plaguing this remote Northern community. Read More>>

First graduates leave aboriginal social work program

July 23, 2007 - A new aboriginal child welfare degree program, offered through the University of Manitoba at the Winnipeg Education Centre, will see up to 70 aboriginal social workers graduate this year.
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Council offers mixed review of GN suicide strategy

July 20, 2007 - The Embrace Life Council is giving the Government of Nunavut's new suicide prevention strategy a cautious thumbs-up. Read More>>

Medical travel makes Nunavut health spending soar

July 19, 2007 - A Nunavut MLA says he's worried that the territory cannot continue to deal with rising health costs, driven in large part by medical transportation. Read More>>

Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada respond to CBC report about the health of young Inuit children

July 18, 2007 - The CBC yesterday covered the Canadian Medical Association Journal article entitled Links Between Poor Indoor Air and Respiratory Infections in Inuit Children. Read More>>

First Nation to open wellness centre

July 18, 2007 - The Muskeg Lake Cree Nation unveiled plans Tuesday to open a wellness and diabetes centre on Saskatoon's east side by the summer of 2008. Read More>>

KO Telemedicine program gets support from First Nation chiefs at AFN gathering

July 16, 2007 - An important resolution, cooperatively developed by health representatives at AFN, COO, NAN and KO was successfully moved forward and accepted by the Chiefs attending the Assembly of First Nations gathering in Halifax this past week. Read More>>

Nunavut reeling from soaring suicide rate

IQALUIT, July 16, 2007 - Rebekah Williams was a young Inuit girl growing up high above the Arctic Circle when word spread across the tundra that a man in another community had killed himself. Read More>>

Poorly ventilated, overcrowded homes linked to Inuit kids' infections

July 16, 2007 - Inadequate ventilation and overcrowding appear to contribute to the high incidence of lower respiratory tract infections in young Inuit children, according to a new study. Read More>>

Nurses-in-training

July 16, 2007 - The Qikiqtani Health Science Camp will be held in Iqaluit July 16-Aug. 3. Read More>>

Smoking issue debated

PRINCE ALBERT, SK, July 14, 2007 - A local medical health officer says First Nations leadership needs to make more aggressive steps toward reducing the numbers of smokers in their community. Read More>>

Work starts on Sioux Lookout hospital

July 13, 2007 - Site preparation is underway on Sioux Lookout's brand new $94-million hospital. Read More>>

Province Releases RFP for Aboriginal Nursing

VICTORIA, BC, July 12, 2007 – To recruit Aboriginal youths into nursing programs and increase the number of nurses in Aboriginal communities in British Columbia, government has issued a request for proposals to Aboriginal organizations, post-secondary institutions and nursing groups for funding totalling $500,000, announced Health Minister George Abbott today. Read More>>

Protest planned against proposed uranium mine

SHARBOT LAKE, ON, July 12, 2007 – Aboriginal protesters occupying the site of a proposed uranium mine in eastern Ontario are planning a march Friday to voice their growing concerns about mining on traditional lands. Read More>>

Providence Care to support training for Metis health-care providers

July 12, 2007 - The Metis Nation of Ontario signed an agreement with Queen’s University and Providence Continuing Care Centre to expand the mental health services for Metis people yesterday. Read More>>

Metis Nation strikes health deal

July 11, 2007 - A landmark deal was struck for the Metis Nation of Ontario as it signed a new health agreement Wednesday at its Annual General Assembly at Chippewa Park. Read More>>

Study: Sports participation among Aboriginal children

July 10, 2007 - Nearly two-thirds of Aboriginal children participate regularly in sports, with Métis and Inuit children most involved, according to a new study. Read More>>

Native leaders call for mindshift to combat violence against native women

KAHNAWAKE, QC, July 10, 2007 - Breaking the cycle of violence against native women will require a giant mindshift that includes rethinking approaches to the environment, language and human rights, several prominent aboriginal leaders said Tuesday. Read More>>

Ahousaht: Get clean or get out

July 10, 2007 - An innovative get-treatment-or-get-out ultimatum handed to bootleggers and drug dealers in Ahousaht, near Tofino, has already changed the atmosphere in the small, isolated First Nations community. Read More>>

Indigenous women making connections

July 10, 2007 - More than 250 aboriginal female delegates from across Canada, the United States and 17 countries in Central and South America have gathered in Kahnawake for Restoring Our Balance, a three-day conference. Read More>>

Manitoba teens are out-puffing their peers

WINNIPEG, July 10, 2007 - Dr. Dhali Dhaliwal, CEO of CancerCare Manitoba, said a high number of aboriginal youths who smoke and the continued availability of cigarettes to underage children can help explain why Manitoba lags behind the rest of the country. Read More>>

Nurse with a doctorate influenced how nursing is taught in Canada

TORONTO, July 9, 2007 - Pat Griffin was a nurse with a doctorate who rose to become the executive director of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing. She raised the profile of native health-care workers and extracted federal funding for aboriginal nursing students. Read More>>

Nechi Institutes Innu graduating class proof that addiction intervention is working

July 9, 2007 - Last month eight adults in this isolated northern Labrador community proudly displayed their Community Addictions and Training Certificate demonstrating to young and old, that not all hope is lost and that anything is possible. Read More>>

Concerns Over Rising HIV Rate Among Canada's Aboriginals

MONTREAL, July 8, 2007 - An internationally recognized expert on the HIV virus says a better job needs to be done to fight the rising rate of infections among Canada's natives. Read More>>

Floating health survey readies for launch

July 6, 2007 - With only four weeks to go before they drop anchor at their first port of call, organizers of the Arctic's biggest health survey ever are nearly ready to go. Read More>>

Confronting past issues and current challenges

July 5, 2007 - The Aboriginal Women’s Wisdom Circle is the first of its kind for Peardonville House, a women’s addiction treatment centre. Read More>>

Researchers Find Way to Starve TB

July 5, 2007 - Sleuthing through soil has led UBC researchers to a key discovery about the world’s most lethal infection -- tuberculosis (TB). Read More>>

Pang enjoys the premiers' spotlight

PANGNIRTUNG, NU, July 5, 2007 - The people of this tiny Inuit village on Baffin Island hope Thursday's visit from the western premiers will bring greater attention to the issues facing isolated northern communities. Read More>>

High Squamish diabetes rates prompt ice cream truck ban

VANCOUVER, July 5, 2007 - The familiar jingle of the ice-cream truck is music to the ears of most Canadians. Read More>>

Western premiers to tackle aboriginal 'third solitude'

July 5, 2007 - Leaders attending the western premiers conference in Iqaluit on Thursday and Friday say they plan to focus on ways to improve the lives of Canada's aboriginal people. Read More>>

Visiting premiers will learn of challenges facing Nunavut

July 4, 2007 - Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik is looking forward to playing tour guide this week to Canada's four western premiers and two territorial leaders. Read More>>

Federal Tories defend record on Aboriginal issues

July 4, 2007 - The new Conservative government has taken steps to defend its government record in regards to Aboriginal peoples, according to a recent news release obtained from the government. Read More>>

Centre all smiles over funding

July 01, 2007 - Staff at the First Nations Friendship Centre couldn’t help but grin knowing more healthy smiles will be forming in the community. Read More>>

'We seek dignity,' Fontaine explains

OTTAWA, June 30, 2007 – In the shadow of Parliament Hill under a brilliant sky, native leaders and politicians called on Canada to end First Nations poverty and despair and deal seriously with land claims disputes. Read More>>

Cross-Canada protests denounce natives' poverty

June 29, 2007 - Canadian aboriginal groups staged protests across the country on Friday to bring attention to poverty, health and social problems facing Indians living on and off the country's reserves. Read More>>

Cowichan engaged in healthy conversation

June 30, 2007 - Cowichan Native voices were heard during a recent visit by B.C.’s Conversation On Health. Read More>>

How Greenland curbed alcohol abuse

June 29, 2007 - Alcohol abuse causes tremendous damage in Greenland, just as it does in Nunavut and Nunavik. Read More>>

Nunavik children and youth in trouble, says Quebec Human Rights Commission

June 29, 2007 - The Quebec Human Rights Commission reported on Wednesday that Inuit children in Northern Quebec do not have access to basic health and social services. Read more>>

First Nation healing room opens at health centre

June 29, 2007 - West Parry Sound Health Centre First Nation healing opened on National Aboriginal Day. The room will be available for First Nations to practice traditional healing, to hold cultural awareness sessions as well as for public use and health-related seminars. Read More>>

Four Inuit among 2007’s aboriginal role models

June 29, 2007 - Nunatsiaq News reports on four Inuit role models for 2007. Read More>>

Whale Cove resident tapped as role model

June 27, 2007 - The National Aboriginal Health Organization announced that Gloria Kowtak, originally from Whale Cove, will be a national Aboriginal role model for the organization. Read more>> (scroll down 3rd item)

Health issues overwhelm native community

June 26, 2007 - When posing for a photograph, Janet Brant Nelles smiles. As program co-ordinator for Tyendinaga Home and Community Care, she has many reasons not to smile, however. Read More>>

First Nations communities in crisis: report

June 26, 2007 - Members of Canada's First Nations communities are living in conditions comparable to those of developing countries, according to a new report. Read More>>

Nunavut's Hep C stats may be wrong

IQALUIT, June 25, 2006 - Statistics on the rate of Hepatitis C infection in Nunavut could be misleading, said health officials and educators during the fourth national Aboriginal Hepatitis C conference. Read More>>

"Women of the Métis Nation" is hopeful after the National Aboriginal Women's Summit

June 25, 2007 - Over 150 delegates from National Aboriginal Women's organizations gathered in Corner Brook Newfoundland to set out key themes and recommendations for the advancement of Aboriginal Peoples with diverse needs, at the National Aboriginal Women's Summit. Read More>>

No-sniff gas could help end solvent abuse

June 25, 2007 - Originally developed in response to gas sniffing in Australian Aboriginal communities, BP is offering free of charge, a non-intoxicating gas formula to any business who cares to produce it. Read More>>

Northern women excluded from federal shelter announcement

June 25, 2007 - Communities in Nunavut and the Yukon denounce their exclusion from $56 million in federal funding for women's shelters. Read More>>

Healthy lifestyles programs working out

June 23, 2007 - There’s a reason why unhealthy eating practices are labeled poor. Read More>>

Aboriginal women's summit calls for funding

CORNER BROOK, N.L., June 22, 2007 - Ottawa and the provinces need to stop their jurisdictional bickering and take a more proactive stance on resolving the litany of social and economic problems facing native women, aboriginal leaders said as the first national aboriginal women's summit concluded Friday. Read More>>