Mid Canada Line cleanup isn't good enough

The Province of Ontario announced last month that is finally going to clean up a stretch of radar sites that have been leaching toxic compounds into the environment for the past 40 years.The radar sites were a...

PROMISED LAND FORGETS THE VISION SPLENDID: The Oz media & Curnow

A story today(19 May 2009) by Stuart Rintoul ‘The Promised land’ has The Australian newspaper playing catch up on its past journalistic failures exposed in Now Public relating to Kevin Curnow, Balangarri, the EG...

Residential Schools: Kevin Annett - The man who won't cave in

    By Ursula Tillmann    Canadian Reverend Kevin Annett (53), who is presently on a lecture tour throughout cities in Canada lives dangerously. “I do believe that I am about to be...

Rolf Harris in Race Row Over 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport' after Slamming "Laz...

POPULAR AUSTRALIAN celebrity Rolf Harris was embroiled int a race row as he exhorted Australia's under-privileged Aboriginal population to "get off their lazy arses and clean up their own streets".  ...

Former Australian PM calls for Libs to back Government's apology to Aborigines

Former Liberal prime minister and human rights campaigner Malcolm Fraser has called for his former party to unite and back PM Kevin's Rudd's formal apology to the Aboriginal “Stolen Generations”. Mr...

Prime minister names board for mental health commission

The new Canadian prime minister takes the lead in analysing social and medical issues in relation to mental health. I hope help is on its way to those most in need and least likely to receive it. An impressive idea that could become a model for the future."Prime Minister...

The Real Holocaust - The Palestinian One

Will The Palestinian Holocaust ever get the world attention like the Jewish Holocaust? Will Palestinians end up like North American Native People? "The Real Holocaust - The Palestinian One The UN partition of 1947...

The Crimes Of Billy Fish

First time novelist Sarah Hopkin's The Crimes Of Billy Fish has won the inaugural ABC Fiction Awards and looks set to be a best-seller with film rights already snapped up. The book tells the story of Billy...

Another Caledonia-style conflict brewing near Kingston?

"Six Nations members have staged a brief blockage outside an Ontario gravel quarry, prompting many to believe a "Caledonia-style" standoff may be possible. Members of the Tyendinaga Mohawks descended on the quarry to express their concern that a land claim could be thwarted...

NT assault rate outstrips national average

"The Northern Territory has a rate of assault five-and-a-half times higher than the national average. According to the latest report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, injuries that lead to hospitalisation and death are significantly higher in the Territory...

Anglican Church of Canada names first bishop representing aboriginals

" TORONTO (CP) - The Anglican Church of Canada marked what it called a "historic moment" in its history Thursday as it introduced Mark MacDonald as its first bishop representing aboriginals in an effort to heal a long-standing rift with the country's First Nations. MacDonald,...

Tory Lies

"The reason the Tories eliminated the Court Challenge Program was because they know their new Three Strikes/ Napoleonic Code is unconstitutional according to legal experts. In Question Period Justice Minister Vic Toews lies saying that it is constitutional.Bill on repeat...

Understanding Indigenous People

I was reading a piece that described the wonders, joy and innate value of the lifestyle and beliefs of an indigenous ethnic group.  I started wondering just exactly which groups qualify for that exalted...

Legal challenge to pipeline review returns to court as hearing reveal aborigi...

"We're going to be faced with ruptured land and ruptured lives"

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