Archive - Feb 19, 2008

Toronto Rock Captain seeks partner remote First Nation for Lacrosse camps and equipment

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Toronto Rock Captain and Northern Links are searching for a remote First Nation for Lacrosse Camps and Equipment!

Jim Veltman, Captain of Toronto Rock has approached Northern Links for assistance in seeking a Northern, Remote Aboriginal Community to donate his time to Lacrosse Camps and lacrosse equipment. It is preferred the community is remote and have access to an arena and/or outdoor box.

COO's Knowledge Management Advisory Group moving First Nation health information online

Keewaytinook Okimakanak's Health. Telemedicine (KOTM) and Kuhkenak Network (K-Net) program representatives met with the Chiefs of Ontario's (COO) Knowledge Management Advisory Group (KMAG) to discuss their strategy for integrating First Nation public health information with the provincial system as one step in the process for moving patient information online. The following article in Monday's Globe and Mail highlights some of the benefits of this development.

First Nations plan strategies for implementing the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Two AFN Press Releases on this gathering ... 

Legal experts question Canada's arguments against the UN Declaration

VANCOUVER, Feb. 20 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, on the second day of the symposium Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples a panel of international law experts will discuss Canada's stance on the UN Declaration. "The Declaration and Canadian Law" panel begins at 9:15 a.m.