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RIGHTS-CANADA: Province Stands Firm, Bars Sikh Dagger from School
The province of Quebec is fighting a court ruling that would have allowed a Sikh boy to wear a 'kirpan', or ceremonial dagger, to school as long as it was kept in a wooden holder under his clothing./REPEAT/RIGHTS: Indigenous Peoples Fight to Protect Healing Knowledge
Traditional native healing is under attack in the Canadian courts even as indigenous peoples gather at the United Nations to discuss how to promote and protect their cultures, say aboriginal groups here.RIGHTS: Indigenous Peoples Fight to Protect Healing Knowledge
Traditional native healing is under attack in the Canadian courts even as indigenous peoples gather at the United Nations to discuss how to promote and protect their cultures, say aboriginal groups here.RIGHTS: Indigenous People Hopeful as New U.N. Body Set to Open
The planet's indigenous people will take one step closer to a place as full partners on the world's political stage Monday, but they have no illusions about the distance remaining in their journey toward equal treatment./MAY DAY/LABOUR-CANADA: Native Employers, Unions Tussle Over Traditions
Native leaders in a western province have vowed to block union organising at their businesses in the latest skirmish of an ongoing struggle between labour and indigenous employers.LABOUR-CANADA: Skilled Immigrants Wanted, No PhD Required
Think Canada only wants immigrants with PhDs or computer degrees? Think again: Butchers and welders are just two groups that have been admitted into the country recently as one of the world's richest nations deals with a shortage of blue-collar workers.RIGHTS: Garment Giant Confronts Honduras Labour Allegations
North America's largest T-shirt maker is to hold talks with groups in Honduras next week on working conditions in its four factories there. The company says it has met international labour standards despite recent media reports.CULTURE-CANADA: Chinese New Year Brings Gambling Controversy
Ethnic Chinese here say authorities should have been sensitive to the well-known gambling problems among their people and alerted them to a proposed mini-casino in the city's Chinatown section, and to plans to print new lottery tickets featuring the lunar Year of the Horse, which begins Feb. 12.RIGHTS: Gold Industry Consolidation Seen as Threat to Locals
Consolidation among the world's largest gold companies will further diminish the influence of local communities, say mining industry watchdogs.RIGHTS: Canadian Natives Go International
When a Canadian Native leader threatened to expose to the world his fight with government over land wanted by a ski resort, he used a tactic that aboriginal groups have employed successfully since his father drove the Constitutional Express two decades earlier.CULTURE-CANADA: Women Unite Against Terror Close to Home
Women representing this city's sizeable ethnic communities are banding together to fight a common enemy. Their joint efforts stand in contrast to the communal suspicion sown by the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and attest to the power of a terror closer to home: family violence.« Previous Page
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