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Aboriginal Tax Officer Apprenticeship Program

at Tax Services Offices in Sudbury, Thunder Bay, and East Central Ontario (Kingston, Belleville and Peterborough)

Access career opportunity at the following:
 http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/apps/careers/external/english/2007-6209-ONT-3442-9962-Notice.html
 
Canada Revenue Agency

Notice of Job Opportunity
Selection Process Number: 2007-6209-ONT-3442-9962
Advertisement Number: 00006209

Aboriginal Tax Officer Apprenticeship Program at Tax Services Offices in Sudbury, Thunder Bay, and East Central Ontario (Kingston, Belleville and Peterborough), English
Permanent / Anticipatory

Salary range: $ 43,514 to $ 49,351 annually 

Anticipated number of vacancies: 12

Who can apply:

This challenging opportunity is open to Aboriginal persons residing within a 100 kilometre radius from Belleville, Peterborough, Kingston, Sudbury, or Thunder Bay, Ontario, who have graduated (or will graduate) by June, 2007 with an undergraduate degree or a diploma from a recognized post-econdary institution.
 
An Aboriginal person is a North American Indian or a member of a First Nation, a Métis, or an Inuk. North American Indians or members of a First Nation include status, treaty, or registered ndians, as well as non-status and non-registered Indians.
 
In order to be given consideration in this selection process, candidates must self-identify as Aboriginal persons (as per the definition above) when completing the on-line application.
 
Preference may be given to candidates who are mobile and willing to relocate within the Ontario Region at the conclusion of this Apprenticeship Program. 

Final date for receipt of applications:

May 31, 2007 11:30 PM EST - Eastern Standard Time

Centre for Indigenous Theatre
Presents the world premiere of
GEGWAH
Written by Alanis King

Sioux Lookout, Ontario – In an unprecedented collaboration, The Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee, Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre, Queen Elizabeth District High School and the Sioux Hudson Entertainment Series have joined forces to bring a most extraordinary play to Sioux Lookout. Alanis King’s new work Gegwah will be presented in Sioux Lookout, Thursday, May 17 at 7:30, at Queen Elizabeth District High School. Admision is "Pay what you can", suggested donation of $5. The play will be presented to students on Friday, May 18 at 9 AM at the high school as an activity in its annual Native Awareness Week.
 
The Centre for Indigenous Theatre is touring Gegwah across Ontario in April and May.  It is being performed by CIT’s professional acting students and supported by an award winning production team. Gegwah will be presented in Toronto, Peterborough, Wikwemikong, Sault Ste Marie, Cape Croker, Kettle Point, Ottawa and Sioux Lookout.
 
Set on the shores of Manitoulin Island in the 1600’s, the story of Gegwah follows seven dispossessed characters, a young band of Odawas who are faced with the onslaught of first contact, specifically the bible and the fur trade.  The story focuses on the emotional impact of colonization through the eyes of these characters as they deal with a rapidly changing landscape. The principal characters are two sisters, who are abandoned by their band as their land is set on fire. They seek solace and guidance from Nokomis (grandmother) and the many animate spirits around them, who feed them with stories and songs to give them strength.
 
This piece is performed entirely in Anishnabemowin, specifically the Odawa dialect that is true to the region in which the story is set and very similar to Ojibway. Audience members will be provided with a synopsis of the story, however our experience through the workshop of this piece indicates that the movement choreographed by Alejandro Roncerio (director / choreographer / dramaturge), combined with the production design, will make it accessible to non-speakers of the language.

A graduate of the National Theatre School, Alanis King is a playwright with numerous credits to her name including, Lovechild, Artshow, Heartdwellers, Manitoulin Incident, Tommy Prince Story, If Jesus Met Nanabush, Storyteller and Step by Step. Ms. King is excited about the presentation of this work, “I gladly accepted the offer from [Artistic Director] Rose Stella to be CIT’s Playwright in Residence, it’s a wonderful chance for a playwright to work on a new play and have students develop and produce it with a director.”

Based in Toronto, The Centre for Indigenous Theatre offers post-secondary performing arts training to people of Indigenous ancestry. The purpose of the program is to develop contemporary performance art from a distinctively Indigenous cultural foundation. The training program springboards from Indigenous culture and contemporary theatre techniques, in such a way that students will receive a uniquely Indigenous beginning to their performance arts careers. The curriculum integrates training in the areas of acting, voice and movement with Indigenous cultural classes in dance, song and oral history. The program also offers a professional development component, which allows students and working professional artists to train together, adding a mentoring element to the curriculum. To gain practical performance experience, students are given the opportunity to publicly perform through community showcase events, story creation projects and year-end shows featuring senior students. We seek to create performance, rooted in our mythology and oracy through cultural instruction aimed at bringing out the cultural memory of the individuals attending the school and validating their perception of culture.

The Centre for Indigenous Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of The Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Baagwating Community Association (Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation), Bank of Montreal Financial Group, Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment & Training, The Cultural Human Resource Council, The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation and the Suncor Energy Foundation.

For more information or media enquiries please call (416) 506-9436. Jeffrey Ross, Marketing Coordinator

or in Sioux Lookout, Laurel Wood (807) 737-2174
lawood@gosiouxlookout.com

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The Centre for Indigenous Theatre
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 205
Toronto, Ontario M5V 1X3
citmail@indigenoustheatre.com
www.indigenoustheatre.com

From Ottawa Sun ...

Natives Push to Find Remains

Monday May 14th - By JORGE BARRERA, NATIONAL BUREAU

A Native group is threatening an "escalating campaign of civil disobedience" to force the federal government into identifying and repatriating the bodies of 50,000 Native children who the group claims died in residential schools.

Thirty-five members of the group, called The Friends of the Disappeared, occupied the Vancouver offices of Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada on Friday.

"Until the remains of these children are repatriated (to traditional lands) and their murderers brought to justice, church and government facilities across Canada will be disrupted in an escalating campaign of civil disobedience," said the group in a statement sent to Sun Media.

The group, made up of Indian residential school survivors and their supporters, claims 50,000 children died in the schools.
Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice has asked the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, created as part of a compensation package for school survivors, to count the dead and find where they are buried.

FINDING DEAD IMPOSSIBLE

But naming and finding them may be impossible. Many were buried in unmarked graves and the records are incomplete.

The country's leading scholar on residential schools, Trent University professor John Milloy, was asked 10 years ago by a family to find a child who committed suicide in one of the schools. Milloy, however, said he could find no records to lead him to a body.

"You are not going to get a lot of information on the number of children who died," said Milloy.

Bob Watts, interim executive director of the commission, remains optimistic. More and more records are coming into their hands, including private documents like school officials' diaries.

"We are getting more and more files on a daily basis," said Watts, former chief of staff to Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine. "There is more and more history coming forward."

PAUPER'S BURIAL

Native children were buried "two in a grave" in at least one residential school, according to documents discovered by Milloy in the National Archives of Canada.

The children were buried together to save money.

"I directed the undertaker to be as careful as possible in his charge, so he gave them a burial as near as possible to that of a pauper. They are buried two in a grave," wrote Rev. J. Woodsworth, principal of a Red Deer, Alta., school in a 1918 letter to the Department of Indian Affairs.