Program funds development of young Aboriginals across Atlantic Canada

When Health Canada first introduced a pilot project that would fund the early development of young aboriginals in Atlantic Canada it wasn't enough. Slated for just three sites in the region, a 1998 meeting of the First Nations Inuit Health Branch wanted to implement the program but not for a select few.
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Aboriginal baby boom well under way in Canada

The aboriginal "baby boom" is well underway, despite falling birth rates among other Canadians, according to Statistics Canada.
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National Inuit Leader Responds to the Aboriginal Children’s Survey

Statistics Canada released information today from the Aboriginal Children’s Survey, with a focus on the family, community, and childcare of Aboriginal children under six years of age.
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Inuit Herald Historic Appointment of First Inuk Cabinet Minister

Ottawa, Ontario - Mary Simon, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami,and national leader for Inuit in Canada, underlined the historic appointment of Leona Aglukkaq as the new Minister of Health today, and congratulated all new members of the cabinet.
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Inuit fare yields to nutritionist's nightmare

On a Saturday afternoon in summer, the foothills that frame this Inuit village on Quebec's northernmost coast are dotted with white tufts of Arctic cotton, the purple-pink of dwarf fireweed, crowberries and liverwort and yellow oxytrope. With its beach glass and fossil-crusted stones, the shoreline would be picturesque, too, if it weren't littered with broken bicycles, Pepsi cans, Gobstopper wrappers and potato chip bags.
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Lifestyle Changes Lead to Dramatic Cancer Increase among Inuit People

Cancer rates have been skyrocketing among the Inuit people—a dramatic rise that researchers say can be traced to changes in smoking, diet, and other lifestyle factors, according to a review published in the September issue of The Lancet Oncology.
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SFU, first nation interactive website collaboration honoured by UNESCO

BURNABY, B.C. - A website collaboration between Simon Fraser University and the Fraser Valley's Xa:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre is being honoured by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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CIHR Guidelines for Health Research involving Aboriginal people are now in effect

The CIHR Guidelines for Health Research Involving Aboriginal People were developed through extensive consultation with Aboriginal communities and researchers across Canada.

Starting with the December 2008 launch of funding opportunities, researchers seeking CIHR funding for health research involving Aboriginal people must now adhere to the Guidelines.
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Health Care in Canada 2008

Today, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released the ninth edition of Health Care in Canada.
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Arctic air temperature at record high due to sea ice loss

The continuing loss of sea ice has pushed the air temperature in the Arctic to a record high above normal, scientists have revealed.
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Care for diabetes moves to communities

The thousands of people living with diabetes on Manitoba First Nations communities will no longer have to move or travel to receive some of the care that's needed to deal with the rampant disease.
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Labrador dumps raided for groceries

A health department in Labrador has posted public warnings about rotten and expired food, after reports that people have been foraging in municipal dumps, because they can't afford to buy groceries in the North.
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Help find Maisy and Shannon

The Help Find Maisy & Shannon Groups are asking for help to submit donations to raise a reward for the safe return of Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander. The two First Nations youth from Kitigan Zibi community, which is north of Ottawa, Ontario, have been missing since Sept 5, 2008.
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NTI to create own plan for more Inuit nurses

Nunavut Tunngavik is creating its own action plan to attract and retain Inuit nurses in hopes it will enhance the Nunavut government's efforts to deal with the shortage of nurses territory-wide.
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Ship visiting Labrador communities for survey of Inuit health

A comprehensive survey of the health of Labrador's Inuit gets underway Monday in Nunatsiavut. A specially outfitted coast guard ship will carry the survey crew to Nain, Hopedale, Postville, Makkovik and Rigolet. Residents of the coastal communities will be tested for diabetes, high blood pressure and heart conditions.
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Emergency Room's Neglect Horrifying

Grand Chief Morris Swan Shannacappo of the Southern Chiefs' Organization is demanding federal and provincial governments and politicians immediately address a wide range of issues that may have come into play during tragic situation surrounding the death of Brian Sinclair at the Health Sciences Centre.
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Goudge report applauded by First Nations leaders

Long before Dr. Charles Smith shattered public confidence in pediatric forensic pathology in Ontario, First Nations communities may have already lost trust, Justice Stephen Goudge said in his report released today.
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