New building for Wabano Centre will be 'jewel' on Montreal Road

A striking new building for the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health promises to invigorate Montreal Road, says John Baird, federal minister of transport and infrastructure.
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Canada's youth experience job struggles, lower quality of life: report

Canada's young people are struggling to finish school, earn decent wages and gain independence, and are among a group of Canadians lagging behind as the rest of the population sees progress, says a new report on the quality of life of Canadians.
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Ottawa announces $3.2M for First Nations housing

Miramichi Conservative MP Tilly O'Neill Gordon was in Elsipogtog First Nation yesterday to announce funding for housing on New Brunswick reserves.
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Government of Canada Helps People With Mental Health Disabilities in Calgary Gain Employment Skills and Avoid Homelessness

People with disabilities will get help preparing for jobs as a result of the Government of Canada's support to Potential Place Society.
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[N.S] First Nations housing gets $3.8m boost

The federal government announced funding Sunday for housing in the province’s First Nations communities.
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Métis join program to fix northern housing

In a first for Western Canada, the Manitoba government has partnered with the Manitoba Métis Federation to retrofit 645 public housing units in rural, northern and remote communities.
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Scientists turn to Inuit for climate clues

The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are now turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
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CFIA issues warning over Heinz Mixed Cereal for babies

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Heinz Canada are warning the public that Heinz Mixed Cereal for babies should not be consumed.
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First Nations can't go back to 'business as usual' after flu outbreak: AFN chief

For a few weeks this spring, the world's attention was focused on a small cluster of First Nation reserves in northern Manitoba.
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Youth worker beat drug habit, now torchbearer

Three years ago Dion Metcalfe was a hardcore drug addict, spending up to $100 a day to feed a crack habit that had destroyed his life.
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A history of trauma

Layering trauma on top of trauma. That’s what it’s like for Canada’s aboriginal people who are already “traumatized” by a history of discrimination and then are diagnosed with HIV, says a Métis man living with HIV.
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Diabetes cost could hit $17 billion a year by 2020

The rising rates of diabetes in Canada could cost the economy as much as $17 billion by the year 2020, according to a new report that calls on the federal government to do more to ease the economic burden
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Canadian aboriginal delegation visits Taiwan

A delegation of Canadian aborigines is visiting Taiwan to promote exchanges and understanding of the indigenous cultures of Taiwan and Canada, the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (CTOT) said Friday.
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No legal protection over drinking water on reserves

The safety of drinking water is something most Canadians take for granted, but for those living on First Nations reserves there are no laws and regulations to ensure their water is safe.
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First Nations children promoted within art exhibit

November 23 marked the opening of freelance photographer Liam Sharp's exhibit, Caring Across Boundaries, at First Canadian Place in Toronto.
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HIV progress seen bypassing Canadian natives

The drop in HIV infections internationally isn't reflected in Canada's aboriginal community, says an expert who is worried about the possibility of federal funding cuts.
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AIDS Day a chance to educate and show support

Athabasca residents are joining with people around the world and wearing red today
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2nd H1N1 wave sidesteps First Nations

The stories, the illnesses and the deaths — of a pregnant woman and an unborn child — are still fresh in the minds of a northern Manitoba First Nation community hit hard by the spring H1N1 flu pandemic, even though the virus has been slow to make its mark this fall.
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