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20 years since Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, still waiting for change

When the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) released its final report in 1996, it set out a 20-year agenda for implementing changes to better the lives of Indigenous people in this country. Those two decades have now come to an end. "There is a very powerful...

03 March, 2016

Aboriginal leaders are warning of the mental health cost of climate change in the North

It’s mid-February and the ice roads into and out of Deer Lake First Nation still aren’t reliable enough to officially open, a reality that weighs heavily on the minds of residents. Read more...

01 March, 2016

Dark history of Canada’s First Nations pass system uncovered in documentary

Very little is known about the pass system. It was a troubling piece of Canadian policy, put in place in 1885 to control the movements of First Nation people, and enforced until the 1940s. Go to article...

22 February, 2016