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Canadian PM to talk with Aboriginal leaders following hunger strike

By Tracker, January 7, 2013

CANADA: Canada’s prime minister has agreed to talks with Indigenous leaders as a hunger strike by one native chief, demanding improvements to squalid living conditions on reserves, enters its fourth week.

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ABORIGINAL INK: A nation’s complacency is killing first peoples

By Chris Munro, July 31, 2012
This handout photo shows a posterboard of 48 missing women used in the police interview of accused serial killer Robert Pickton after his arrest in February 2002. The posterboard was released by Justice James Williams for the media to record at Pickton’s trial in New Westminster, Wednesday, January 31, 2007. (AP PHOTO/CP)

NATIONAL: CHRIS MUNRO* tells the horrendous story of Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who preyed on many Aboriginal women.

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Canadians think First Peoples get too much support: Poll

By Tracker, July 25, 2012

CANADA: Almost two-thirds of Canadians believe Aboriginal people receive too much support from taxpayers, a new survey has found.

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Canadians think First Peoples get too much support: Poll

By Tracker, July 20, 2012

CANADA: Almost two-thirds of Canadians believe Aboriginal people receive too much support from taxpayers, a new survey has found.

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Canada probes its Stolen Generations

By Amy McQuire, March 20, 2012

CANADA: A Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canada’s Stolen Generations – the children who were forced from their families into Residential Schools – has handed down its interim report.

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Canada’s Stolen Generations report released

By Tracker, February 27, 2012

CANADA: A commission set up to examine a decades-long government policy that required Aboriginal Canadians to attend schools where students were stripped of their cultural identity says that the institutional abuse created a legacy of turmoil.

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‘National emergency’ shocks Canada into ‘modern legislative change’

By Amy McQuire, February 12, 2012

CANADA: Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with about 400 Aboriginal chiefs from Ottowa this month following reports of third-world conditions in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat.

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100-year-old finishes marathon

By Tracker, October 17, 2011

CANADA: A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday.

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AFN chief calls for re-look at Indian Act

By Amy McQuire, August 10, 2011

CANADA: The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has called for a move beyond the country’s Indian Act. The Indian Act defines who is an Aboriginal Canadian and deals with local government and management of reserve land and communal money.

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Canadian government slammed for failing to lift Indigenous living standards

By Amy McQuire, June 1, 2011

CANADA: Conditions on First Nations reserves has worsened over the past decade, with an Auditor General’s report slamming the federal government for failing to fulfil its commitments to improve living standards.

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