Things to do | Canada's Official Tourism Website. Harper’s disregard for aboriginal health. When governments make a decision that is stupid, embarrassing, overly partisan, or risks causing an outcry, they tend to do so late in the day and late in the week, preferably on the eve of a holiday long weekend, when citizens – and journalists – aren’t paying much attention. So, late Thursday, the government of Stephen Harper dropped this bombshell, as related in a brief announcement posted on the web site of the National Aboriginal Health Organization: “NAHO funding has been cut by Health Canada.
It is with sadness that NAHO will wind down by June 30, 2012.” This travesty of public policy only came to light because of feisty publications like Windspeaker and Nunatsiaq News. Founded in 2000, NAHO oversaw many research and outreach programs, in crucial fields such as suicide prevention, tobacco cessation, housing and midwifery. It collected an invaluable series of audio and video interviews with elders recounting traditional tales and knowledge. Suicide: The rate is six times higher; Colors - Unknown. Colors An American Indian Legend - Nation Unknown Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel: all claimed that they were the best, the most important, the most useful, the favorite.
GREEN said: "Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and of hope. BLUE interrupted: "You only think about the earth, but consider the sky and the sea. YELLOW chuckled: "You are all so serious. ORANGE started next to blow her trumpet: "I am the color of health and strength. RED could stand it no longer. PURPLE rose up to his full height. Finally, INDIGO spoke, much more quietly than all the others, but with just as much determination: "Think of me. And so the colors went on boasting, each convinced of his or her own superiority. In the midst of the clamor, rain began to speak: "You foolish colors, fighting amongst yourselves, each trying to dominate the rest. Doing as they were told, the colors united and joined hands.
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