Last month, the Chief of one of Canada’s largest First Nations opted not to run again after serving just one term. For 8 years, Marcel Balfour held political office with the Norway House Cree Nation (on-reserve population: 5,500), located about 850 km north of Winnipeg, MB. First voted in as Councillor in 2002, Balfour […]
Over the next 10 days, participants at the Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) will engage in important discussions related to this years special theme, ‘Indigenous peoples: development with culture and identity,’ areas associated with Articles 3 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous […]
Stone, the first in a four-part series of graphic novels called 7 Generations, is set to be released Apr. 15. The series follows Edwin, a present-day Aboriginal teenager, on his journey to understand and reconcile with his family’s history. The striking colour cover accompanies black-and-white illustrations inside. 7 Generations will span the history of “the […]
Your guide to Aboriginal Parliamentarians and Senators Interested in politics? Sure you are! And because you are, you’ll love this ‘Who’s Who’ of Aboriginal politicians in Canada’s Parliament. (I hope to do the same for other levels of government at some point.) I’m sure you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it… The House […]
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) just released its latest paper, The Income Gap Between Aboriginal Peoples and the Rest of Canada. Authored by Daniel Wilson and David Macdonald, the study looks at data collected in the 1996, 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, to identify trends and raise questions about the persistent income gaps […]
