Education News

A coroner’s investigation raised questions about the Thunder Bay hospital’s discharge practices for vulnerable patients almost 10 years before a 19-year-old First Nations man was found dead hours after he was discharged, CBC News has learned. 

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations lost their oldest elder, Paddy Jim, who is being remembered as a ‘knowledge keeper.’

Two bands have dropped out of the Federal Court of Appeal litigation, leaving four B.C. First Nations to fight the case.

With months of frigid weather on the horizon, the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba is asking for donations to help the province’s most vulnerable residents to ride out the winter.

Three Manitoba First Nations are set to break ground this spring on new schools their leaders say will help improve graduation rates by keeping students going to classes in their home communities.

People from surrounding First Nations stood outside the St. Paul, Alta., courthouse on Thursday to rally against what they’re calling a hate crime after threats were made to ‘shoot up’ a school.

The funding model will eventually be replaced by regional education agreements, established between the federal government and First Nations, with programs tailored to each region, but Pratt the work is slow going.

Women on the Tsuut’ina Reserve, which borders Calgary, have been getting screened for breast cancer this week in the heart their own community.

Ontario’s Office of the Chief Coroner says it’s investigating the death of a 19-year-old First Nations man a few hours after he was released from the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.

A group of Mi’kmaq from communities engaged in a multi-million dollar land claim negotiation in Nova Scotia are weighing the implications of a surrender of reserve land set aside for their ancestors.