ICT - Canada http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/canada RSS Feed for ICT - Global - Canada en-us Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame to get two inductees http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/canada/87793012.html TORONTO – The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame Award will be awarded this year to Québec’s Pita Aatami and Mervin Dewasha of Ontario to recognize and celebrate their accomplishments as individual business leaders and for their contributions to sustainable economic development for aboriginal communities. ‘Hate crime’ ad prompts police, human rights investigation http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/canada/87463002.html WINNIPEG, Manitoba – An ad on a buy-and-sell Web site that characterized Native boys as animals and offered to ethnically cleanse them from the city has sparked a blaze of outrage and prompted a First Nations leader to initiate an investigation by city police and Canada’s Human Rights Commission on a hate crime allegation. Dramatic decline of male births in indigenous communities tied to industrial pollution http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/canada/87141237.html A strange reality exists in at least one indigenous community – babies that should be born boys are instead, born girls. Challenging the Paradigm coincides with longhouse opening http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/canada/84469727.html TERRACE, British Columbia – Challenging the Paradigm, Northwest Community College’s third annual conference on decolonizing post-secondary education, will take place this year from May 5 – 8 at its Terrace Campus. St. Eugene one of BC’s most culturally authentic aboriginal attractions http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/canada/83891132.html VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The St. Eugene Golf Resort & Casino is one of five tourism businesses in British Columbia to receive the “Authentic Aboriginal” title, a new designation awarded by the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia. The authenticity program recognizes the most culturally authentic, accurate and respectful representations of First Nations peoples and cultures in British Columbia’s tourism industry. Tribute pole bound for China unveiled http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/canada/83343717.html TERRACE, British Columbia – The Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art at Northwest Community College unveiled a grizzly and eagle totem pole to elders, dignitaries and guests. At the Jan. 27 totem pole blessing ceremony, elders laid their hands on the pole as Sam Lockerby and Bossy Bolton blessed the historic pole. The finished piece is destined for the Sichuan province of China and, in particular, to the indigenous Qiang people who were severely impacted by an earthquake in May 2008.