Archive - Apr 2, 2008

K-Net works with Speech-Language Pathologists researching delivery of services in remote First Nations

Speech-language pathologists test videoconferencing for speech and hearing assessments

Rick Garrick - April, 2008

Three speech-language pathologists have been looking into the use of videoconferencing to test children for speech and hearing problems in remote northern Ontario First Nation communities.

Women begin fasts to protest jailing of First Nation leaders by Ontario "justice" system

From the Prince George Citizen 

Women begin 'wave fast' to protest jailing natives in mining fight

By Sue Bailey, THE CANADIAN PRESS - April 1, 2008

OTTAWA - A group of native women in northern Ontario was to stop eating for 24 hours in hopes of launching a "wave fast" across Canada to support a great grandmother jailed in a mining dispute.

Harper government inserts new micro-management clauses in INAC CAs with First Nations

Hopefully these types of micro-management clauses are being added to all the contracts being issued by the military and every federal government department. This move will probably keep the acountants and the lawyers happy for years to come ...

INAC press release ...