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CONGRATULATIONS TO PEGGY SANDERS who has been named to the Order of Canada along with other distinguished member of Canadian society. Peggy is well-deserving of this honour with all her community work and caring ways!

56 named to Order of Canada - Feb. 6, 2006.

OTTAWA (CP) - The Order of Canada has 56 new appointees.

The award, established in 1967, is Canada's highest honour for lifetime achievment in a variety of fields.

The appointees will be formally inducted into the order in a ceremony at a later date, says a statement from the office of Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean.

Along with Peggy, others joining the ranks this year include Maggie Hodgson who worked tirelessly with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, David Suzuki who works on increasing awareness about the environment, Mike Lazaridis, president of Blackberry-creator Research in Motion, business mogul Gerald Schwartz and award-winning author Margaret MacMillan.

Appointed as campanions:

• Bernard Ostry, Toronto, public service.
• David Suzuki, Vancouver, environment.

Appointed as officers:

• Parzival Copes, West Vancouver, social sciences.
• Rev. Jean-Paul Desbiens, St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Que., education.
• Frank Hawthorne, Winnipeg, science.
• Maggie Hodgson, Edmonton, social service.
• Mike Lazaridis, Waterloo, Ont., industry / commerce / business.
• Margaret MacMillan, Toronto, education.
• Frederick Mannix, Calgary, industry/commerce/business.
• Gudrun Parker, Montreal, arts/film.
• Timothy Parsons, Brentwood Bay, B.C., science.
• Susan Point, Vancouver, arts/visual.
• Gerald Schwartz, Toronto, industry/commerce/business.
• Mary May Simon, Manotick, Ont., public service.
• Pierre Viens, Neuville, Que., health care.
• John Wedge, Toronto, health care.
• Lynn Williams, Toronto, labour relations.

Appointed as members:

• Peggy Baker, Toronto, arts/stage/dance.
• Marjorie Bencz, Edmonton, social service.
• Walter Borden, Halifax, arts/stage.
• Bruce Buchanan, West Vancouver, voluntary service.
• Jack Chiang, Kingston, Ont., voluntary service.
• Sam John Ciccolini, Woodbridge, Ont., voluntary service.
• Ronald Cleminson, Ottawa, public service.
• Steven Cummings, Westmount, Que., voluntary service.
• Jon Dellandrea, Oxford, England, and Toronto, education.
• Louise Dennys, Toronto, communications.
• Paterson Ferns, Victoria, arts/film.
• David Fraser, Vancouver, science.
• Anne Archibald Fraser, Victoria, Calgary, and Halifax, voluntary service.
• Richard Garneau, Montreal, communications/sports.
• Sonny Greenwich, Vaudreuil, Que., arts/music.
• Christopher Harris, Ottawa, voluntary service.
• Wanda Koop, Winnipeg, arts/visual.
• Jacques Lacoursiere, Beauport, Que., writing/history.
• Helmut Lanziner, North Vancouver, engineering.
• Vincent Lemieux, Sainte-Foy, Que., social sciences.
• Michael Macklem, Ottawa, communications.
• Daphne Marlatt, Vancouver, arts/writing.
• Lorna Marsden, Toronto, education/administration.
• Randall Moffat, Winnipeg, industry/commerce/business.
• Sister Susan Moran, Toronto, social service.
• Willy Norris, Calgary, science.
• Bruce Oland, Halifax, voluntary service.
• Laurence Pathy, Westmount, Que. industry / commerce / business.
• Susan Patten, St. John's, Nfld., industry / commerce / business.
• Daniel Paul, Halifax, social service.
• Suzanne Pedicelli, LaSalle, Que., voluntary service.
• Rev. Jean Pochat-Cotilloux, N.W.T, religion / education / administration.
• Nazmuddin Rayani, Victoria, voluntary service.
• Clayton Ruby, Toronto, law.
• Margaret Anne Sanders, Sioux Lookout, Ont., voluntary service.
• Gordon Slade, Mount Pearl, Nfld., heritage.
• George Walker, Toronto, arts/writing.
• Frederick Wiegand, Westmount, Que., voluntary service.

Appointed as an honourary member:

• Salome Bey, Toronto, arts/music.

Seven Generations Hockey Tournament was a success this past weekend!! 

Many teams traveled to Thunder Bay last week Feb 2-5, 2006 for the tournament. There were 6 divisions (Tykes, Novice, Atoms, Peewee, Bantom and Midget) ranging from 4 - 17 year olds. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE PARTICIPATING TEAMS!!!

A side Champions included:

• Tyke – Lac Seul Moose 
  • Runner up – Michikan Lake
• Novice – Lac Seul Moose
  • Runner up – Fort William
• Atom – Lac Seul Bruins
  • Runner up – Ginoogaming
• Peewee – Neskantaga
  • Runner up – Fort William
• Bantam – Constance Lake
  • Runner up – Ginoogaming
• Midget –  Fort William
  • Runner up – Lac Seul

B side  Champions included:

• Novice – Weagamow Lake
  • Runner up – Gull Bay
• Atom – Fort William
  • Runner up – Eabametoong
• Peewee – Constance Lake
  • Runner up –Lac Seul
• Bantam – Constance Lake
  • Runner Up – Lac Seul
• Midget – Sandy Lake
  • Runner up – Ginoogaming

The Honourable Jim Prentice

Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians

Calgary North–Centre (Alberta)


Jim Prentice was elected to the House of Commons in 2004 and was re-elected in 2006. He has served as Critic for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and been a member of the Standing Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development. 

A lawyer by profession, Mr. Prentice has specialized in property rights and has focused on relocations, environmental protection suits and restricted development areas. He also served as a commissioner of the Indian Specific Claims Commission of Canada for 10 years and is recognized by his peers as an expert in land claims negotiations. Mr. Prentice travelled to South Africa twice as an expert adviser on how to protect property rights in that country’s new constitution.

Mr. Prentice is married to Karen and they have three daughters.

http://www1.pm.gc.ca/grfx/docs/Cab_committee-comite.pdf

CABINET COMMITTEE MANDATES AND MEMBERSHIP (see PDF for all committees)Provides strategic direction on government priorities and expenditure management, and ratifies committee recommendations. Considers health care, justice, Aboriginal, training and skills development, culture, and immigration policy issues.Listed in order of date of appointment to the Privy Council, followed by date first elected to the House of Commons or appointed to the Senate.

Priorities and Planning

• Chair/Président The Rt. Hon./Le très hon. Stephen Joseph Harper
• Vice-Chair/Vice-président The Hon./L’hon. Lawrence Cannon
• Members/Membres The Hon./L’hon. Marjory LeBreton
• The Hon./L’hon. Chuck Strahl
• The Hon./L’hon. Peter Gordon MacKay
• The Hon./L’hon. Stockwell Day
• The Hon./L’hon. Vic Toews
• The Hon./L’hon. Jim Prentice
• The Hon./L’hon. John Baird
• The Hon./L’hon. Maxime Bernier
• The Hon./L’hon. James Michael Flaherty

• Chair/Président The Hon./L’hon. Tony Clement
• Vice-Chair/Vice-présidente The Hon./L’hon. Diane Finley
• Members/Membres The Hon./L’hon. Jean-Pierre Blackburn
• The Hon./L’hon. Gregory Francis Thompson
• The Hon./L’hon. Monte Solberg
• The Hon./L’hon. Vic Toews
• The Hon./L’hon. Michael D. Chong
• The Hon./L’hon. Beverley J. Oda
• The Hon./L’hon. Jim Prentice

List of All Ministers:   http://www1.pm.gc.ca/grfx/docs/cabinet.pdf

KORI’s Brian Walmark was one of thirty workshop leaders invited to the "Striving for Education Excellence In First Nation Communities," an education conference sponsored by the Wiky Board of Education (February, 3-4, 2006). Brian conducted a day long workshop dealing with on-line education. He focussed on the applications created by K-Net Services, the Regional Management Organization (RMO) Ontario for Industry Canada’s First Nations SchoolNet program.

Brian provided workshop participants in Wiky with a tour of the K-Net website including First Nations SchoolNet, G8, and KiHS. Participants were exposed to the Special Education, Literacy and Early Childhood Development on-line workshops and many registered. Some participated in a "live" session with a dozen other First Nations schools across the north from Fort Francis to Timmins to Bearskin Lake. Others viewed archived sessions on-line. Over three hundred and fifty principals, teachers, teaching assistants and the general public attended the two-day conference. Conference organizers want to make this into an annual gathering.  For more information, click here.