Archive - Apr 2008
April 2nd
K-Net works with Speech-Language Pathologists researching delivery of services in remote First Nations
April 2, 2008 - 8:49pm | by brianbeatonSpeech-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
April 2, 2008 - 6:48am | by brianbeatonFrom 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
April 2, 2008 - 6:20am | by brianbeatonHopefully 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 ...
April 1st
Ontario steps up to ensure First Nations Technical Institute survives for another year
April 1, 2008 - 9:34pm | by brianbeatonFirst Nation’s Technical Institute avoids closure — for one year
By Macleans.ca | April 1st, 2008
Feds can't shirk responsibility for aboriginal education programs: minister