Aboriginal News

The Fraser Institute: Media Advisory; How Much Does Government Spend on Aboriginal People in Canada? New Study Coming Tuesday, December 10, posted on MarketWired The Fraser Institute will release a new study Tuesday, December 10, spotlighting federal and provincial spending on Aboriginal people. The study, Ever-Higher: Government spending on Canada’s Aboriginals since 1947, looks at…

Aboriginal News

Youth cool to proposed education act, by Betty Ann Adam, posted on The Star Phoenix Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt confronted a skeptical reception at an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Youth Council summit in Saskatoon. He also hinted the Federal government’s unpopular proposed education act could be shelved, depending on…

Aboriginal News

  Idle No More anniversary sees divisions emerging, By Daniel Schwartz, Posted on CBC News Idle No More, the indigenous movement that began a year ago today, says it has a database of 254,000 supporters. Some, however, are concerned about the direction its founders want to go. A Saskatoon teach-in on Nov. 10, 2012 marked the founding…