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WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Canada's parliament will meet in an emergency session on Tuesday night over a rash of suicide attempts by aboriginal teenagers in a remote, poverty-stricken community whose people ...

On May 2, 2019, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released its decision in R v Desautel, 2019 BCCA 151. The Court of Appeal upheld the lower courts decisions to acquit Richard Desautel of charges ...

The British Columbia Supreme Court (BCSC) affirmed in R. v. DeSautel (DeSautel) that the constitutional protection of aboriginal rights in s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 extends to an aboriginal ...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Parliament held an emergency debate Tuesday on a suicide crisis in a remote aboriginal community after 11 people, nine of them minors, attempted suicide over the weekend and ...

Aboriginal people in Canada are taking advantage of Web-based distance education, electronic conferencing, bulletin boards, e-mail, and self-directed-learning software to more fully participate in the ...

Using data from the 2011 National Household Survey, the present analysis seeks to provide a recent estimate of Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal earnings disparities for a sample of employees who work ...

TORONTO (AP) – A remote aboriginal community in western Canada was left reeling from the unimaginable after a gunman opened fire at a school and a home, killing four people, including a teacher, and ...

The campaign began with Holly Jarrett, whose cousin Loretta Saunders was murdered while writing her honors thesis on the topic of violence against Aboriginal women in Canada. In a Change.org petition ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - An aboriginal protest movement that's often compared with Occupy Wall Street has the potential to disrupt mining projects across Canada, threatening to undermine the country's ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Aboriginals in British Columbia can stake a broad claim to traditional territories due to a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision that also raises new questions about prospects ...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that non-citizens and non-residents can claim an aboriginal right under the constitution. The case was about the definition of “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” ...