News

Arctic talks exclusion irks Inuit, Iceland: March summit: Snub by Ottawa ‘reeks of paternalism’ (The Gazette)

Facing criticism from northern aboriginal leaders and Iceland's top diplomat over their exclusion from a five-nation Arctic Summit to be hosted by Canada next month, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has pledged to meet with a full spectrum of circumpolar stakeholders ahead of the controversial...

18 February, 2010

Olympics have returned aboriginals to rightful place, says leader (The Vancouver Sun)

The partnership of the Four Host First Nations in the Winter Games illustrates what the new relationship between Canada and its aboriginal people should be, the national leader of the Assembly of First Nations said Tuesday. Shawn Atleo said in an interview that the opening...

17 February, 2010

Native university pulled back from brink (The Globe and Mail)

Aboriginal and government leaders are pulling Saskatchewan's one-of-a-kind aboriginal university back from the brink one week after its closing appeared imminent. The provincial Advanced Education Minister spent Family Day in Vancouver discussing ways of salvaging the beleaguered First Nations University of Canada with federal Indian...

15 February, 2010