Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 11-001
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Research and Policy Division]
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Households that fail to meet one or more standards for adequacy, suitability or affordability and whose income is insufficient to afford rental housing that meets standards are considered to be in need.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 1-2
Description
Comments on the North American Indigenous Games, residential school survivors, Dr. Marie Battiste, the death of RCMP officer Robin Cameron, and more.
Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page 2.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 2, f, 2011, pp. 8-12
Description
Looks at award winners: Chippewa Industrial Development Ltd., winner of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation Community Economic Developer of the Year; Tribal Wi-Chi-Way-Win Capital Corporation winner of the Aboriginal Private Sector Business Award and Rodney W. Hester, winner of the Individual Economic Developer of the Year Award.
Discusses court case between landowners and Sami reindeer herders regarding land entitlements whereby the supreme court upheld the Sami customary right to graze reindeer on private lands.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 19-20
Description
Biennial conference attracted 1,200 delegates. Only two issues have been on the agenda for the 17 years of these gatherings. One is indigenous life expectancy, the other indigenous health inequality.
NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)
Canadian Journal of Diabetes, vol. 35, no. 4, September 2011, pp. 328-333
Description
Looks at a study of Cree First Nations children, aged 5 to 12, to determine predisposition to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes coupled with level of physical activity.
Survey delivered in two parts: part A provides community perceptions, demographics, experiences, recommendations and understandings, part B determines community strengths in listening, reading, writing English, problem solving, and numeracy.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 21-23
Description
Discusses program which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)