BETWEEN 1910 and 1970 tens of thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their families in a failed assimilation programme that wanted to “breed the colour” out of them. Ten years ago the ...

PATRICK DODSON was there on the day, 30 years ago, that prime minister Bob Hawke promised aboriginals a treaty that would at last acknowledge their rights. At the time Mr Dodson was the manager of one ...

This week a 32-year-old aboriginal man on parole allegedly went on a stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan that killed 11 people and wounded 17. He died days later in police custody of self-inflicted ...

Like immigrants, aboriginal populations' economic success may be enhanced by the acquisition of skills and traits appropriate to the "majority" culture in which they reside. Using 1991 Canadian Census ...

True beach elegance is indestructible. It never dies; it evolves with time. Even when the beaches and pools are full of swimwear that seems meant to be stared at (and lots of them are), you’ll still ...

Aboriginal teenagers play street hockey at dusk outside the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation meeting hall in North Vancouver. One house on the Burrard band reserve sports an inflatable white snowman and a ...

Canadians must acknowledge that for generations their public schools have fed them misinformation about aboriginal people, says the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sinclair’s ...

TORONTO — Scores of aboriginals from across Ontario rallied Tuesday ahead of a landmark court hearing on whether the Canadian government robbed them of their cultural identities during a two-decade ...

As Jill Buckshot describes the addiction that helped put her in prison, her words sometimes slur together over the phone, so that she has to spell out “dope sick” and “Dilaudid.” “Dope sick” refers to ...