News
May 24, 2013
National Aboriginal Harvesters Conference - June 19-20, 2013, Ottawa, ON
The 1st National Aboriginal harvesters Conference hosted by the Aboriginal Harvesters Committee of the Fur Institute of Canada.
May 17, 2013
Living in fear: Move to safer ground is going too slowly
Residents of Newtok, Alaska, know they must evacuate – they are rapidly losing ground to erosion. The land beneath the village is falling into the river. But who will pay the $130 million cost of moving them?
From the Guardian.
May 13, 2013
UN announces restrictions on some toxic chemicals
Under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention, HBCD, PFOS and other chemicals will be phased out.
May 10, 2013
First Nations Drinking Water Policies
May 07, 2013
Fish-WIKS Newsletter
The inaugural newsletter of Fish-WIKS: Fisheries – Western & Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Feb 06, 2013
How Poverty Influences a Child’s Brain Development
Feb 06, 2013
Exposure to persistent organic pollutants and risk of hypertension among Inuit from Greenland
Feb 04, 2013
Study finds airborne contamination in Wood Buffalo directly linked to oilsands development
Feb 04, 2013
First Nations people living off-reserve in poorer health than other Canadians, says study
Feb 04, 2013
Tribal Members Sign Treaty Calling for an End to Alberta Oil Sands Development and Keystone XL
Jan 31, 2013
Gym or Raking Leaves?
Jan 27, 2013
Struggling Native Tribes Press Canada to Act
Jan 25, 2013
We Are Not Being Heard: Aboriginal Perspectives on Traditional Foods Access and Food Security
Jan 18, 2013
Primer on Fracking (video)
Jan 08, 2013
Preserving direct services for First Nations community based health and social services programs
Dec 30, 2012
Biologists need your help watching for dying swans
Dec 26, 2012
Beef Recall Revealed Enforcement Deficiency
Dec 26, 2012
Study links disease, poverty and biodiversity
Dec 26, 2012
Rachel Carson: a prophetic voice
Dec 23, 2012
Is it Time to put the Brakes on Coal Development?
Dec 11, 2012
Northeast Edmonton acid spill nearly cleaned up
Dec 10, 2012
Aboriginal health access centres get $264K boost
Dec 10, 2012
National report lauds two northern housing projects
Nov 29, 2012
Pharmaceuticals difficult to treat in drinking water
Nov 28, 2012
Inuit raise Muskrat Falls mercury concerns
Nov 27, 2012
First Nations opposed to push for Northern Pipeline
Nov 27, 2012
Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week approaches
Nov 26, 2012
The Alberta tar sands and First Nations health
Nov 16, 2012
Human drugs make fish flounder
Nov 13, 2012
Federal scientists uncover evidence that oilsands contaminants travel further than expected
Nov 12, 2012
Inter-connections between health and climate change
Nov 06, 2012
First Nations housing in crisis
Nov 02, 2012
Social determinants of health and childhood obesity
Nov 01, 2012
Unequal exposures: People in poor, non-white neighborhoods breathe more hazardous particles (US)
Oct 30, 2012
Bid to curb fried-food chemical goes cold
Oct 23, 2012
Cancer screening project centres on First Nations
Oct 18, 2012
A bright future in Aboriginal health services (SK)
Oct 16, 2012
“You can’t drink the oil, you can’t eat the money” First Nations women to the Nobel prize de
Oct 15, 2012
Smoking in the car ‘breaks toxic limit’
Oct 09, 2012
Pesticides blamed by report for illnesses (US)
Oct 08, 2012
Research: Children’s Environmental Health (US)
Oct 04, 2012
Teen smoking linked to earlier death
Oct 03, 2012
Background TV: Children Exposed to Four Hours a Day
Sep 27, 2012
Canadian Government Backs BPA in Food Containers
Sep 25, 2012
Ontario reports first pig-to-human H1N1 case
Sep 22, 2012
Study reports ‘hidden costs’ in gas drilling
Sep 21, 2012
Studies expand on soda’s role in growing obesity
Sep 21, 2012
Kids exposed to mercury or lead more likely to have ADHD symptoms, Canadian study finds
Sep 14, 2012