Aboriginal-youth living off-reserve in Canada use tobacco, alcohol and drugs significantly more than non-Aboriginal youth and have higher health risks, according to a new article. Aboriginal-youth ...

Nurse Desrochers checks a girl's throat while other children wait in line, at the Frobish Bay Federal Hostel in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in a 1959 archive photo. A Canadian policy of forcibly separating ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian aboriginal leader was paid nearly C$1 million last year by his community, one of many large compensation packages revealed this week under a new law that has sparked ...

The recent publication of 2 epidemiologic studies examining Aboriginal populations1, 2 raises ethical concerns. Neither study describes any consultations with First Nations or Métis community members ...

From residential schools to forced relocations, Canada’s record on institutional abuses of its aboriginal people is well documented. Despite this, the discovery of papers proving that federal ...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that non-citizens and non-residents can claim an aboriginal right under the constitution. The case was about the definition of “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” ...

June 21 marks 21 years since Canada's National Aboriginal Day, the annual celebration of the country’s First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples, first began. National Aboriginal Day in Canada kicks off ...

How will our grandchildren cope with the problem of Canada's vanishing aboriginal population? The United Nations Population Fund has just published its latest findings, and the news, once again, is ...