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Kathy Poling and Phil Vinet are the new mayors for Sioux Lookout and Red Lake respectively as a result of the municipal elections held yesterday.

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Municipal Election Unofficial Results
Posted by Mike Ebbeling on November 13, 2006

Atikokan

Mayor - Dennis Brown

• Council
  • William Bell
  • Mike Shusterman
  • Bud Dickson
  • Sherwin Durand
  • Charlie Viddal
  • Marj Lamkin

Dryden

Mayor - Anne Krassiliowski

• Council
  • Gwen Keefe
  • Brian Collins
  • Mike Wood
  • Dennis Wintle
  • Gary Case
  • Mel Fisher
• Public School Board - Ed Arnold

Ear Falls

Mayor - Ron Bergman

• Council
  • Kim Thain
  • Robert Doyle
  • Stan Leschuk
  • David Wilson

Ignace

Mayor - Lionel Cloutier

• Council
  • Kimberley Crossley
  • Dianne Loubier
  • Sherrill Musclow
  • John Taddeo

Machin

Mayor - Garry Parkes

• Council
  • Stannis Montgomery
  • Laurie Huffman
  • Linda Anderson
  • Paul Kelly
• Public School Board - Barbara Gauthier

Sioux Lookout

Mayor - Kathy Poling

• Council
  • Ward 1 - Donald Fenelon
  • Ward 2 - Susan Williams
  • At Large
    • Ben Hancharuk
    • Joyce Timpson
    • James Brohm
    • David Gordon
• Public School Board - Bob O'Donohue
• Northwest District School Board - Cathy Bowen

Red Lake

Mayor - Phil Vinet

• Council
  • Anne Billard
  • Ken Forsythe
  • Donna Malloy
  • Brian Larson
  • Paul Parsons
  • Debra Shushack

THIS POWERFUL PLACE airs Thursday, November 16th at 9.pm. on the CBC radio program Ideas. It's the story of a clash of world views over a piece of land that Aboriginal and corporate cultures consider valuable.... for different reasons.

Jody Porter, CBC Radio reporter in Thunder Bay and former Wawatay News editor, produced this special one hour documentary. In her own words she describes the show as follows ...

This Powerful Place is about a dispute over High Falls near Beardmore Ontario, back in the early 1990s.

First Nations people in the area (mostly Poplar Point Ojibway Nation) protested when they learned a hydro dam was going to be built at the falls.

But the development went ahead.

In the process, the remains of a 400 year old medicine man were unearthed. The project halted for a brief time so the archeology could be done. The white people thought if they just re-buried the bones somewhere else it would solve the 'problem' of the land being sacred to the Ojibway people.

It didn't.

NAN's Education Committee lead by Deputy Chief Terry Waboose and Education Advisor Dobi-Dawn Frenette, hosted a meeting with INAC's Regional Education team on Thursday, Nov 9 in Thunder Bay. INAC representatives attending this meeting included:

• Katherine Knott; Director, Education; (519) 751-2243
• Connie Charlie; A/Junior Program Officer; (807) 624-1566
• Cheryl Kylander; Sr Education Officer; (807) 624-1522

Topics discussed during this day long meeting included:

• Education Priorities: Nishnawbe Aski Nation
• Education Priorities: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
• 06/07 Funding
• 07/08 Funding
• Education Authorities
• National Working Groups
• Education Policy Framework/Systems and Jurisdiction
• Special Education
• Provincial/Federal Relations
• Intergovernmental Relations
• Post-secondary (including ISSP)
• Data sharing
• Nishnawbe Aski Nation Education meeting
• Moving Forward

Other issues:

• Ojibway Cree Cultural Centre
• Northern Nishnawbe Education Council
• Keewaytinook Internet High School, presentation
• Information Technology & Broadband Connections (First Nation SchoolNet Program)

Jim Teskey, KO Education Advisor and Brian Beaton, K-Net Coordinator attended this meeting and did presentations about KiHS and the First Nations SchoolNet initiatives.