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Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada
January 2008

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This issue of Statistics Canada's free online publication, Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, contains two articles.

The two articles below site the same study about suicides in Inuit communities ...

From the Toronto Star

Shift away from land linked to suicide rate - Study of Inuit finds first generation born in towns started trend

Jan 07, 2008 - Bob Weber, The Canadian Press

From the Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations website

Mandate of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations to the States of the World

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Chimoré, Cochabamba - Bolivia, 12th October, 2007

Write to Read: A National Creative Writing Contest

World Literacy of Canada’s Write To Read Challenge at http://www.worldlit.ca/w2r07.html

Deadline: February 29, 2008

The theme for 2007, “In the News”, requires children to research local folklore or history, and write a story about humorous or bizarre ‘news’ reports in their community.

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From the Edmonton Sun

Healing native wounds

By ANDREW HANON - January 5, 2008

If you stand in the parking lot of the new leisure centre in St. Albert, you can look north and see a historic red barn, standing like a lonely sentinel on a rise in the field.

From the Winnipeg Free Press

Native-owned gas bars near city thrive - Aboriginal clients, First Nations benefit from special tax discounts

By Alexandra Paul - Jan 3 2008

Deanna Larocque fills a customer's gas tank at the Red Sun gas bar and convenience store in Highway 6.

BUSINESS is good for the latest urban reserve on the outskirts of Winnipeg, with 80 to 85 per cent of customers drawn from First Nations people attracted by deep tax discounts.

From the Globe and Mail

A critical shield against global warming

JOE FRIESEN - January 4, 2008

WINNIPEG — The boreal forest occupies nearly half of Canada's land mass, yet it's more significant to national myth and memory – as home to the coureurs de bois and the hewers of wood – than it is to any discussion of a shared future.

NAHO Annual Report 2006-2007

The National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) is committed to improving the well-being of First Nations, Inuit and Métis living in urban, rural and remote communities across Canada. By collecting, analyzing and sharing health information with its diverse audiences and partners, NAHO continues to advance this most important cause. It is a founding belief of the organization that the advancement and sharing of knowledge about Aboriginal health are vital to empowering Aboriginal Peoples.

From the Kenora Daily Miner and News ...

KMTS sold - Bell Aliant bid of $27 million has the vote of city council

By Mike Aiken - January 03, 2008

With competition in the telecommunications sector getting tougher in the local market, city council has decided to sell one of its key assets.