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Indigenous Brazilian soccer players eye Women's World Cup

Indigenous Brazilian soccer players eye Women's World Cup

PERUIBE, Brazil (AP) — This year's Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is a world away from Indigenous Brazilian leader Guaciane da Silva Gomes, who lives in the isolated village of Tapirema in southern Sao Paulo state.
Photos capture contentious fishing of baby eels in Nova Scotia despite moratorium

Photos capture contentious fishing of baby eels in Nova Scotia despite moratorium

HALIFAX — Photographs have been released showing people fishing for baby eels in Nova Scotia despite the federal government's recent decision to shut down the contentious fishery.
Indigenous competitors celebrate culture and sport in Brazil

Indigenous competitors celebrate culture and sport in Brazil

PIACAGUERA INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil (AP) — As a bonfire lit by children finished burning, the winners at the first Indigenous Games of Peruibe calmly welcomed their wooden medals around their necks with little fanfare otherwise.
Melissa McCarthy fronts People magazine's 'Beautiful Issue'

Melissa McCarthy fronts People magazine's 'Beautiful Issue'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Melissa McCarthy is out front on this year's People magazine “Beautiful Issue.” The “Bridesmaids” star says being on the cover "felt like it was saying something really lovely to my younger self, to my 20-year-old self.
Head of Alberta Energy Regulator declines to say when province told of oilsands leak

Head of Alberta Energy Regulator declines to say when province told of oilsands leak

OTTAWA — The head of the Alberta Energy Regulator has refused to tell a parliamentary committee investigating releases from an oilsands tailings pond about when the provincial government was told about the problem.
Amazon Indigenous woman wins Goldman environment prize

Amazon Indigenous woman wins Goldman environment prize

SÃO PAULO (AP) — When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil was a haven of seclusion.
First Nations in B.C. died at a much higher rate from toxic drugs, health authority

First Nations in B.C. died at a much higher rate from toxic drugs, health authority

VANCOUVER — Doug Kelly, the grand chief of the Sto:lo Nation, says parents need to love their children unconditionally even if they use drugs.
Family says First Nations man brain-dead after altercation with Saskatchewan police

Family says First Nations man brain-dead after altercation with Saskatchewan police

SASKATOON — The family of a First Nations man in Saskatchewan is calling for accountability and justice after an altercation earlier this month with Prince Albert police left him on life support with no brain activity.
Ottawa signs agreement with Nova Scotia First Nations chiefs on health services

Ottawa signs agreement with Nova Scotia First Nations chiefs on health services

HALIFAX — The federal government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nova Scotia’s Mi’kmaq chiefs on the transfer of federal health services.

After the migrant deaths in Akwesasne, Canadian immigration law must reckon with its colonial history

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