Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2016, pp. 4-31
Description
Profiles Inuit people relocated to Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal. Looks at income, employment, education, health, housing, crime and safety, and culture and language.
Overview to health crisis and Nishnawbe Aski Nation's plan to implement recommendations made by the Auditor General's report Access to Health Services for Remote First Nations Communities.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 107, no. 1, 2016, pp. 100-105
Description
A sample of 5,340 students from 109 schools in the Saskatoon Health Region revealed that 340 (6.4%) had considered suicide at least once in the past 12 months.
Study involved consultations, key informant interviews and a focus group about HIV and/or hepatitis C (HCV) in Indigenous communities. Most responses fell into two broad categories: stigma and discrimination in the context of health care and other settings and concerns about privacy and confidentiality, with a number of sub-themes.
Statistical table shows data for urban and rural areas in Canada as a whole, as well as provinces and territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table shows data for urban and rural areas in Canada as a whole, as well as provinces and territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table broken down by owned, rented and band housing in rural and urban areas for Canada as a whole, as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table broken down into not in labour force, unemployed, employed full-time, and employed part-time in Canada as a whole as well as provinces and territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table shows incomes and source of incomes for urban and rural areas in Canada as a whole, as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM).
Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM).
Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
Statistical table shows data for single-detached, apartments and other in rural and urban areas in Canada as a whole as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table covers time periods: prior to 1981, 1981-1996, 1996-2006, and 2006-2011. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table broken down into above and below standards, below suitability and adequacy, and below both in urban and rural areas for Canada as a whole, as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table broken down into living in/access to adequate and suitable, in housing need, below suitability, below adequacy, or both in urban and rural areas for Canada as a whole, as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Child and Youth Advocate for Alberta reports on seven suicides which took place in 2013-2014. Each individual was either involved with Child Intervention Services at the time of their death, or had been within the previous two years. Includes 12 recommendations for improvements to provincial services and programs.
Indigenous Working Group of the British Columbia Association of Social Workers
Description
Objectives: encourage dialogue, raise awareness regarding history and future of First Nations peoples in Canada, promote recognition of impacts of colonization, work towards respectful and meaningful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, and promote the Commission's recommendations to advocate for systemic change.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016, pp. 101-126
Description
Looks at report prepared for the Metro Vancouver Aboriginal Executive Council regarding affordable housing and cultural services for Aboriginal people in urban centres.
Commissioner from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission speaks about the Commission, ramifications of the residential school experience and linkages to current social problems, survivors' stories, and Commission's calls to action.
Duration: 59:29.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 18-37
Description
Discusses the context and concerns of the Indigenous food sovereignty (IFS) movement arising from research conducted by the authors; focuses on the creation and implementation of an Aboriginal research framework.