Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

28 Aug 2011

When Atanarjuat won the best first film award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, Canadians were overjoyed. The success of Zacharias Kunuk's film was a welcome marker of Canada's burgeoning re-...

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Consultation with aboriginals is crucial to changing place names from colonial past

24 Mar 2008

Vancouver

Fittingly for an explorer, Captain George Vancouver had nerve in spades when he arrived on the shores of British Columbia's coast in 1792, albeit 9,000 years after the...

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Bear essentials

23 Mar 2008

When you look directly over the railing of your cruise ship into the piercing black eyes of a polar bear, it suddenly doesn't matter that the cruise has no chocolate buffet or that the swimming...

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Canada tries to heal scars of racist past

7 Oct 2007

Payouts offered to aboriginal children, but not all are willing to forgive brutal schools, writes Wency Leung

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Northern exposure

4 May 2005

For anyone who might be lost and hungry on the frozen tundra of Canada's north, there are few things more welcoming that an inukshuk. It is a crude sculpture of stones, often in the shape of a man...

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Cold comfort

11 Apr 2003

THE DESOLATE REGION within the Arctic Circle, in the far north of Planet Earth, is freezing cold. It is a very remote and unwelcoming part of our world. The land is covered in snow and ice, and...

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