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How colonialism is still undermining the rights of Indigenous women.

How colonialism is still undermining the rights of Indigenous women.

New federal dental care coverage may have the unintended result of Canadian employers cancelling their private health care ...

The Canadian Dental Hygienists Association applauded a government proposal to expand access to dental care for patients under the Canada Dental Benefit.

It took Canada 36 years to acknowledge that I am a Status Indian. I grew up in Matachewan, Ont., a township near Matachewan First Nation. There were only seven houses on the First Nation, so most band members lived in town with French and English neighbours. There, nobody questioned that I was Indigenous. I didn’t question it, because I knew who I was. Yet, according to the Indian Act, my siblings and I were anything but. Angela Larkman The writer, left, and her grandmother. In December 1952, my grandmother, Laura Flood, became one of more than 11,000 Indians who were “voluntarily” enf...