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Hello Nishnawbe Aski Nation, I wanted to pass this info. onto your communities.   I had worked at NAN as the Education Coordinator in 2005 and with Education Jurisdiction before.  My email is micheller@awotaan.org.

Funding crunch puts off badly needed native school repairs

Sue Bailey, THE CANADIAN PRESS

From the government's Indian Residential Schools Resolution web site

Information Update: January 23, 2008

HOLY GHOST REVIVAL MEETINGS

AT KC HALL IN SIOUX LOOKOUT, ONTARIO

LIVE BROADCAST ON WAWATAY RADIO NETWORK

FEBRUARY 8-10, 2008
7 PM NIGHTLY
11 AM SUNDAY MORNING
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GUEST SPEAKERS
ROBERT LAVALLEE  (SKOWNAN, MANITOBA)
AMOS AND MARIANNE RAE  (DEER LAKE, ONTARIO)
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Federal government press release

Parliamentary Secretary Fletcher Announces More than $15 Million for the Creation of an Aboriginal Health Research Network

For immediate release- 2008-01

Announcing the Northern First Nations Hockey tournaments in Sioux Lookout ...

Click here to download a copy of the following poster (PDF, 76K)

NAN Press Release ...

NAN Members Receive Awards for Business Plans

THUNDER BAY, ON, Jan. 22 - Project Beyshick partners Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan Beardy, POA Educational Foundation Chairman Aditya Jha, and Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund (NADF) president Harvey Yesno, together with Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant and Small Business and Entrepreneurship Minister Harinder Takhar honoured Project Beyshick 2007 participants Devon A. Meekis and Desta Buswa during an award presentation this afternoon at Queen's Park.

Bell Aliant's Northern Ontario sales team (Tricia Hartley, Business Solutions Manager from Sudbury and Kerri Spooner, Regional Sales Manager from Thunder Bay) brought Bell Aliant's new Aboriginal Liaison, Michelle Dormody from Halifax to Sioux Lookout on Monday evening.

Keewaytinook Okimakanak's K-Net team members met with these Bell Aliant representatives to discuss:

The Ontario Prospectors Association and the Boreal Prospectors Association would like to announce the Northern Ontario Mines & Minerals Symposium being held at the Sunset Inn & Suites (1.888.465.3844) in Sioux Lookout, February 18 to 20, 2008.