New Training Simulation Increases Faculty Skill in Identifying Students who are At-Risk for Suicide

Results from a national study conducted in 42 leading universities in the U.S. revealed thatAt-Risk, a web-based, interactive training simulation that uses educational gaming technology,increases the willingness and skill of faculty and staff to identify and refer students exhibitingsings of mental distress, such as depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide. Read more by clicking here

'This Is How They Tortured Me'

Jacqueline Windh and Alfred Hendricks

TheTyee.ca
July 6, 2009Most of us know there was a time in Canada when aboriginal children where taken from their homes, their families and communities, and forced to attend residential schools.

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Amid the grim statistics, a journey of change begins

Justine Hunter

Maggie Chorney was sitting in a pronounced slouch, text-messaging someone throughout a brief interview. She didn't need to use her words to communicate how little she wanted to answers questions about her future.

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'She had a million-dollar smile'

By: Bruce Owen and Arielle Godbout

WINNIPEG — Cherisse Houle tried to turn her life around, but in the end some fear the ways of the street may have caught up to her, adding her name and face to the long list of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Manitoba.

The RCMP said Friday the body of a woman found Thursday in the Rural Municipality of Rosser by a backhoe operator had been identified as Houle. The 17-year-old had been reported missing to Winnipeg police on June 26

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Poverty And Cultural Loss Are Some Of The Essential Causes Of The Health Gap Between Indigenous And Non-Indigenous People

Written by Stephanie Brunner (B.A.)

The second of two reviews in this week´s The Lancet discusses the primary origins of the health gap. In an effort to understand these inequalities, the authors attempt to give an Indigenous perspective

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The not-so-hidden history of Canada

Melissa Chungfat

Yesterday I went to check out some of the Canada Day events with a friend on Granville Island and in downtown. As we do every year, we wore our crazy Canada hats attracting attention among locals and tourists.

Towards the end of the day, we passed a man who wished us a “happy Native oppression day.” I replied, “I agree with you.”

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

Palm Island after the inquest into an death in custody
Chloe Hooper

In video recordings of Cameron Doomadgee's funeral, hundreds of Palm Islanders walk with his coffin on the narrow road from the island's Catholic church to the cemetery. The journey is several kilometres and the sun blisteringly hot. At the front of the procession is Doomadgee's 15-year-old son, Eric, small for his age, holding a white wooden cross to place on his father's grave.


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