Call Made For Immediate HIV/AIDS Prevention Funds

Call Made For Immediate HIV/AIDS Prevention Funds Monday, November 16, 2009 at 14:47     Unless the AIDS epidemic in Canada is addressed — it’s going to get worse.   That was one of the messages LaVerne Monette had at the All Nations Hope AIDS...

Feds Respond To Critique Of Aboriginal Corrections

Feds Respond To Critique Of Aboriginal Corrections Monday, November 16, 2009 at 14:40     A spokeswoman for the Correctional Service of Canada says the department is doing its best to control Aboriginal gangs in federal prisons.   Krista McGregor is responding to...

Alarm Raised Over Number Of Aboriginal Inmates

Alarm Raised Over Number Of Aboriginal Inmates Friday, November 13, 2009 at 15:44     The watchdog for federal prisons says the number of Aboriginal inmates is soaring.   Howard Sapers says an independent report confirms Aboriginal rates of incarceration are now...

CTF Renews Call To Dump Reserve Tax Exemptions

CTF Renews Call To Dump Reserve Tax Exemptions Friday, November 13, 2009 at 15:38     The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is singling out a First Nations-owned gas station in Regina in its latest call to have on-reserve tax exemptions eliminated by governments.  ...

Saskatoon Focus Of Aboriginal Gangs Research

Saskatoon Focus Of Aboriginal Gangs Research Friday, November 13, 2009 at 15:32     A professor from the United States will be spending at least the next year in Saskatoon studying Aboriginal gang activity in Canada.   Julie Hailer has studied Aboriginal gangs in the...

Roots Of Violence Against Women Discussed At Event

Roots Of Violence Against Women Discussed At Event Friday, November 13, 2009 at 15:28     The art of interacting with the opposite sex has been lost in the Aboriginal community, according to the organizer of a women’s conference in North Battleford this week.  ...