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January 25th, 2012To fully understand the causes of the obesity epidemic in Aboriginal children requires an understanding of the unique social and historical factors that shape t...
January 25th, 2012Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (January 20, 2012) –The Harper Government today announced new research funding aimed at improving Canada's healthcare system. The anno...
January 25th, 2012The government of Canada and First Nations leadership have met and agreed on some immediate steps for action. It is admirable that removing the barriers that hi...
January 25th, 2012The Vancouver Island Health Authority wants to become the Island's employer of choice for Aboriginal people.
January 25th, 2012Iqaluit, Nunavut (January 23, 2012) – Students from across Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon are participating in Get Reel, a video campaign to create ...
January 20th, 2012British Columbia has the highest rate of residents in Canada who can’t afford to take their drug prescriptions as directed, according to a study published in ...
January 20th, 2012Significant investments in aboriginal education must be front and centre at a key meeting between the federal government and First Nations leaders later this mo...
January 20th, 2012Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson says the province is considering asking the Canadian Forces for help getting fuel, food and other critical su...
January 20th, 2012This past mid-December, when most Arctic residents started shifting their lives around to get ready for the holiday season, the National Aboriginal Health Organ...
January 17th, 2012I am writing to announce that Dr. Ian Graham will be leaving the position of Vice President, Knowledge Translation and Public Outreach, effective March 31, 2012...
January 12th, 2012Residents of Richmond claim to have the best food security in the province while those in the Okanagan or Central Vancouver Island are more likely to suffer fro...
January 12th, 2012Efforts in Regina to help Aboriginal families deal with generations of absent fathers are featured in a new documentary, produced by CBC, that will be shown thi...
January 12th, 2012A dramatic drop in the number of new HIV infections in British Columbia shows that a treatment-as-prevention strategy is making a difference, says a leading AID...
January 11th, 2012The crisis in Attawapiskat has left many Canadians feeling confused and dismayed about how such poor living conditions could exist in this country. It has also ...
January 11th, 2012For Ellen White, health care means treating the spirit as well as the body. The Snuneymuxw elder studied medicine along the rocky shores of Kuper Island, where ...
January 4th, 2012As Canadians come to better understand the depth and complexity of the crisis in many of Canada’s aboriginal communities, lasting solutions to long-standing p...
January 4th, 20128TH Fire draws from an Anishinaabe prophecy that declares now is the time for Aboriginal peoples and the settler community to come together and build the '8TH F...
January 4th, 2012Ottawa could begin cutting back on health-care transfer payments to provincial and territorial governments in 2017, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said M...
January 4th, 2012In Sioux Lookout, Ont., nurses recognize Oxy babies by their plaintive high-pitched cries. These newborns, who enter the world addicted to the same drug that ha...
January 4th, 2012While the world was distracted by Attawapiskat, another desperate cry for help was getting little notice in remote northern Ontario, where addiction to the pres...
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