Archive - 2013
First Nation children used in medical tests, head of Truth and Reconciliation Commission says
July 31, 2013 - 5:54pm | by brianbeatonJuly 26th
Canada's medical experiments on First Nation patients for TB treatments revealed by researcher
July 26, 2013 - 5:05am | by brianbeatonFrom APTN.ca
First Nation infants subject to "human experimental work" for TB vaccine in 1930s-40s
24. JUL, 2013 By Jorge Barrera APTN NATIONAL NEWS
July 25th
Aboriginal leaders gain support from provincial premiers for inquiry into missing aboriginal women
July 25, 2013 - 12:57pm | by brianbeatonPremiers call for inquiry into missing aboriginal women
Maria Babbage, The Canadian Press, July 24, 2013
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. -- Provincial and territorial leaders threw their support Wednesday behind a national public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls, ratcheting up the pressure on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to follow suit.
First Nation gatherings calling on all Canadians to urge government to honour the apology
July 25, 2013 - 11:47am | by brianbeatonHonour the Apology: Fasting for My Father, a Residential School Survivor
Wab Kinew, Director of Indigenous Inclusion, the University of Winnipeg - 07/25/2013
July 24th
Chiefs of Treaty 3 First Nations form a new board to address issues at T3 Police Services
July 24, 2013 - 7:34am | by brianbeatonTreaty Three Police won't close up shop - yet
First Nations police service board aims to address issue of chronic government underfunding
Jul 24, 2013 9:32 AM ET
First Nations in northwestern Ontario and eastern Manitoba may not lose their Aboriginal police force after all.
July 23rd
International report urging Canada to perserve half of boreal forest from all development
July 23, 2013 - 11:27am | by brianbeatonJuly 22nd
Acquittal for logging blockade in Barriere Lake First Nation lands defense
July 22, 2013 - 9:15am | by brianbeatonBlockade Charges; Forestry Company Caught Lying On The Stand
BY JOHN AHNI SCHERTOW • JUN 11, 2012
July 21st
Ongoing oil leak in Alberta on First Nation lands is Minister of Environment's new challenge
July 21, 2013 - 3:37pm | by brianbeatonFrom peoplesworld.org
Alberta oil leak into week 10 - can it be stopped?
- by: BLAKE DEPPE July 26 2013
First Nation leaders pass AFN resolution rejecting government's First Nation Education Act
July 21, 2013 - 10:38am | by brianbeatonKey moments in the struggle over First Nations schooling policy
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS JULY 21, 2013