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From the Toronto Sun

Festival brings the past alive - 6,700 kids take in aboriginal culture

By SHEENA FINDLAY, SUN MEDIA - 29th November 2008

More than 6,700 children from schools across the GTA learned about aboriginal culture under the world's biggest dream catcher at the Rogers Centre yesterday.

It was education day at the Canadian Aboriginal Festival, the largest indoor aboriginal festival in North America.

Alberta press release 

Program Helps Link Rural Albertans to High-speed Internet

November 27, 2008

Funding targets communities with limited or no broadband service

Edmonton... Over the next three years, $9 million in grant funding will help rural and remote communities join the digital information age.

Ideas Radio Documentary: "In Praise of Ice," Parts 1 and 2
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
1-2 December 2008

Ontario press release ... 

Aboriginal Youth Receive First Bartleman Awards - Young Poets, Storywriters Recognized

TORONTO, Nov. 27

A 10-year old poet from a remote First Nation community will be among the six young writers to receive the first James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing Award.

Saskatchewan press release ...

Premier Announces 100 per cent High Speed Internet Coverage for Saskatchewan - $129 Million Infrastructure Plan Will Also Bring Cell Coverage Up To 98 Per Cent

 November 26, 2008

Premier Brad Wall said Saskatchewan will have 100 per cent high speed Internet coverage within three years as the result of a major investment announced today.

From the Native Women's Association of Canada ...

Voices of Our Sisters In Spirit: A Research and Policy Report to Families and Communities

President’s Acknowledgements

From the Globe and Mail

Aboriginal students protest shoddy school

The Canadian Press - November 27, 2008

Toronto -- Students from a Northern Ontario aboriginal community relegated for years to a makeshift school rallied hundreds of their provincial peers in Toronto yesterday in a bid to gain a proper school.

Everyone is invited to register for the two upcoming online e-Panels that Digital Ontario is hosting as part of its research into the importance of broadband to the province's economy. Send an e-mail to digitalontario@ontario.ca to register for these events.

From INAC web site

New report from The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)