National conference seeks to preserve and protect First Nations cemeteries

Organizers of the first national conference on aboriginal cemeteries hope to lay the groundwork for others to follow.
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Feds, First Nations leaders at odds on swine flu preparations

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq and a First Nations chief had widely divergent views Friday on the state of flu pandemic preparedness plans for aboriginal communities.
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No plans to remedy 'national shame'

The B.C. government has no concrete plans to do anything about what it calls the "national shame" of First Nations housing, Aboriginal Relations Minister George Abbott has confirmed.
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Ottawa trying to speed delivery of swine flu vaccine

Federal health officials say they are trying to speed up the delivery of Canada's swine flu vaccine, but won't rush into making it available before it's been thoroughly tested and approved.
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Nunavik to get $34.5 million for troubled youth

Quebec hopes to manage the crisis in youth protection services in Nunavik by spending more money on staff housing and importing social workers from southern Quebec.
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Funds will help secure the future for First Nations families

The federal government, the Province and First Nations in Prince Edward Island have come together to back a $1.7-million, five-year plan for First Nations Child and Family Services.
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Judge says no slaughter of Quebec sled dogs, but criticizes police

There was no mass slaughter of sled dogs by the RCMP and provincial police during the 1950s and '60s in northern Quebec, according to the interim report of a judge who investigated the long-standing allegations.
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Manitoba chiefs to testify before Parliamentary health committee about H1N1

Manitoba First Nation leaders whose communities were hit hard by H1N1 influenza this spring will tell their stories to the Parliamentary health committee Friday.
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First Nations runners to head for Washington

First Nations long-distance runners plan to run from Winnipeg to Washington, D.C., to raise awareness about the quality of health care available to indigenous people.
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On-reserve building about to take on a green hue

First Nations building inspectors could soon be among the greenest in the country, thanks in part to federal stimulus money.
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Unsolved murders of women under review by Winnipeg police

The Winnipeg Police Service is undertaking an extensive review of all unsolved murder cases in the city involving women, the CBC has learned.
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Metis Health Care Providers To Benefit From Mental Health Care Expertise Of Providence Care And Queen’s University

The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) is renewing its landmark agreement with Queen’s University and leading health care provider Providence Care, which specializes in mental health.
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Use traditional medicine to fight flu: Manitoba chief

The head of a Manitoba First Nations organization is calling on his fellow chiefs to look to traditional aboriginal medicine to help fight the next wave of swine flu, also called H1N1.
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2 Winnipeg friends found dead weeks apart

Two Winnipeg women whose bodies were found a little more than a month apart were friends who shared meals and movies.
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Island camp teaches Metis youth about their roots

A group of Vancouver Island Metis youth got to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors during a three-day camp on Newcastle Island.
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Canada's latest flu challenge: distribution

Canada does not have the manpower to deliver the H1N1 influenza vaccine as quickly as it becomes available, despite ordering enough doses to inject all of its citizens.
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Two flu-shot rounds slated for Manitobans

Manitobans who want to protect themselves against the flu will need to stand in line twice.
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Nightmare HIV scenario for Sask. First Nations unlikely: Health officer

A prediction that HIV could kill up to 30 per cent of the aboriginal population in Saskatchewan in the next five to 10 years is based on a real and alarming spike in cases — but there are reasons why the worst-case scenario likely won't happen, says the province's chief medical health officer.
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HIV could devastate Sask. First Nations: doctor

Drawing a startling comparison between Canadian native reserves and areas of sub-Saharan Africa, a Saskatchewan medical health officer is warning that HIV could kill up to 30 per cent of the province's aboriginal population over the next five to 10 years.
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Harper stresses social welfare, economy in northern spending

From highways to harbours to housing, Stephen Harper insists his government's focus on the North goes far beyond the elaborate military operation now under way to assert Canada's Arctic sovereignty.
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Flu kits could aid spread of virus

The federal government likely won't help fund flu kits for Manitoba First Nations — and the country's top doctor says some of the items in the kits may actually make the spread of H1N1 influenza worse.
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Local residents give their communities poor sustainability rating, study finds

Very few residents in and around Clayoquot Sound give their communities a good rating when it comes to sustainability.
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Inuit leaders talk northern issues with PM

Inuit leaders pressed Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday at a meeting in Iqaluit on issues they believe are important to Nunavut residents.
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Harper says social issues 'more acute' in North

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the North's social problems, in the spotlight since controversial photos surfaced last week, are "more acute" than those in many other regions.
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Chief says federal gov't hasn't prepared First Nations for H1N1 resurgence

Manitoba's grand chief says Ottawa hasn't done enough to prepare First Nations for an expected resurgence of swine flu in the fall, leaving communities to raise funds for basic supplies and forcing the provincial government to fill the void.
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Mary Simon: The federal government's Arctic plans need Inuit spirit

I live in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik's largest community, located on the western shore of Quebec's Koksoak River, about 50 kilometres upstream from Ungava Bay. Along with my birthplace, Kangiqsualujjuaq to the east, Kuujjuaq sits almost directly on the 58th parallel. It has what might be described as the geographic misfortune of being situated just south of the 60th parallel at a time when federal officials are directing their gazes north of 60.
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Youth crime prevention gets $5.6M from Ottawa

Four Edmonton organizations are getting a combined $5.6 million from the federal government to prevent at-risk young people from turning to crime.
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Province to help pay for aboriginal flu kits

The provincial government will help pick up the tab for thousands of flu kits that will help ailing aboriginal communities combat an expected resurgence of H1N1 this fall.
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Jails brimming with aboriginal inmates

SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Though aboriginal people account for only a small percentage of Canada's population, they continue to be over-represented in jails across the country.
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Health minister tells doctors H1N1 challenge looms

The expected surge in H1N1 cases this fall could challenge Canada's medical community like nothing before, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq told Canadian doctors Monday as she issued a rallying cry to physicians.
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Cabinet ministers set to support seal hunters

It might not be the dramatic sampling of a freshly slaughtered seal but senior cabinet ministers plan to show solidarity with Canada's seal hunters today when they sit down to lunch.
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In Nunavut, the problems are familiar, and so are the solutions

It took a photo of two boys sleeping on the pavement in Iqaluit to show Canada the face of a young population in crisis.
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Half of Nunavut's social worker positions vacant

Nunavut's social workers are doing what they can to help children in need of care, despite a severe staff shortage, a government official said.
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Aboriginal centre comes alive at Whistler

At the Squamish and Lil'wat Cultural Centre, which opened June 17, 2008, visitors can get a taste of life before ski runs, bars, cafes and mountain biking turned this forest into one of the world's top resorts.
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Cowessess First Nation's pandemic planning ahead of its time

The Cowessess First Nation is a community that's ahead of its time when it comes to pandemic planning.
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Arctic ice experiencing severe summer retreat: Experts

As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads north next week for what's become his annual summer visit to the Arctic, he will encounter a world scientists believe is in the midst of an unprecedented and irreversible transformation, where retreating sea ice and related environmental changes are radically reshaping the region's future.
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Native protesters blockade Manitoba dam project

Members of a First Nation are blocking access to a $1.3-billion hydroelectric development project in northern Manitoba.
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Millions fewer salmon

The sockeye just aren't coming and the finger-pointing has begun.

More than 10.6 million sockeye were predicted to return to the Fraser River, but official estimates are less than two million now.
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Aboriginal man taunted while dying: Witness

An aboriginal agency says a man left lying still for hours by passersby in Grandview Park on one of the hottest days of the year was ignored for too long -- and then taunted by firefighters and paramedics.
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Restoring salmon streams and sand dunes

Over the next five years, Parks Canada will be working with local communities, first nations, organizations, and visitors to help restore, and raise awareness about, salmon stream and sand dune ecosystems in the park.
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U of G, Inuit Community Team to Study Climate Change

Guelph - Three University of Guelph researchers will spend the next year studying the impacts of climate change on health in an Inuit community in northern Newfoundland and Labrador. They'll rely on storytelling and digital technology to gather data and create educational materials.
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Manitoba's aboriginals, pregnant women and homeless get priority for flu drug

The province that experienced an acute outbreak of swine flu on its northern reserves is making it easier for aboriginals and other vulnerable patients to get free antiviral drugs in a bid to lessen the impact of the virus come fall.
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Inuit fear Canadian flu plan won't work

The national Inuit committee on health is calling on Canadian health officials to develop a specific strategy for dealing with an H1N1 pandemic in northern Inuit communities.
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Flu fears prompt a few no-shows at First Nations Summer Games

Concerns about the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu, have prompted a handful of First Nations to stay away from the upcoming aboriginal Summer Games.
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Officials bolster H1N1 strategy for First Nations

The image of dozens of aboriginal residents being flown to Winnipeg for treatment of the H1N1 virus convinced Manitoba and Ontario to revise how northern native communities will be treated if the outbreak occurs again.
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Aboriginal groups look at how traditional healers might help fight swine flu

For a sore throat, the roots of a type of plant that grows in the water.

For a fever, the gum and needles of a spruce tree, boiled together and swallowed first thing in the morning. To prevent the spread of infection, the inner and outer bark of the spruce, given to everyone in a household.

These are just a few of the techniques aboriginal healer Be'sha Blondin would use to fight swine flu if it came to her community.
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Pangnirtung prepares own pandemic plan

Hamlet officials in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, say they've stopped waiting for territorial health officials to tell them how to deal with the swine flu pandemic, opting instead to develop their own plan.
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Ottawa to order 50.4M doses of H1N1 vaccine

Governments won't get bogged down in jurisdictional squabbling on pandemic planning that could hold up the delivery of health services to Canadians, Canada's premiers pledged yesterday.
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RCMP officer loses 200 pounds

RCMP officer Marge Hudson in 2004. Hudson has lost more than 200 pounds through healthy eating and exercise in the last five years.
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First Nations Group Takes Major Steps in Support of Youth Healing

With a goal of supporting First Nation Youth, a group led by Restorative Justice Worker, Betty Achneepineskum, will embark on a very challenging and enduring journey, walking from Thunder Bay all the way to Chapleau Cree First Nation.
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AFN chief Atleo wants H1N1 plan for First Nations

Shawn Atleo, the newly-elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), said he’s looking for a “plan for action” on the H1N1 virus, as aboriginal leaders met with provincial and territorial premiers Wednesday.
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First Nations calls for swine flu state of emergency

First Nations chiefs in Manitoba called on the provincial and federal governments to declare a state of emergency on Wednesday because of the spread of swine flu on reserves and the lag time in responding to it.
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Youth suicide discussed in the open

A group of health-care professionals and representatives from across Manitoba First Nation reserves recently learned more about how to prevent youth suicide.
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Pandemic planners fear doomsday scenario in isolated North

Imagine your child is sick, but the Arctic community where you live has no hospital, no permanent doctor, and you must fly to the nearest hospital because there are no roads.
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Gathering helpful to Native youth

Trent Agawa of Brunswick House First Nation is feeling good about himself these days. He claims he owes much of that to his participation in workshops at the third-annual Wabun Youth Gathering.
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First Nations need better access to swine flu vaccine: AFN

Canada's Aboriginal Peoples need to be guaranteed access to drugs to treat the H1N1 virus in the face of a looming vaccine shortage, the Assembly of First Nations said Friday.
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Chiefs demand H1N1 drugs

Remote Manitoba First Nations are worried a resurgence of severe H1N1 flu will hit before they're armed with the same arsenal of tools that helped a nearby Ontario reserve "stop flu in its tracks."
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