Making it Work...

Celebrating Partnerships

Keewaytinook Okimakanak and the Ontario Telemedicine Network

are hosting a Signing Ceremony
to celebrate the development of a formal

Partnering Agreement

between

NAN Press Release 

NAN pleased with jury recommendations in Wesley / Goodwin inquest

     THUNDER BAY, ON, May 21 /CNW/ - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler is pleased with jury recommendations that call for police services in First Nation communities to be equivalent to those in non-First Nation communities delivered at the inquest into a fatal fire that claimed the lives of Jamie Goodwin and Ricardo Wesley at a police detachment in Kashechewan First Nation on January 8, 2006.

Press release ... 

The Seventh Session of the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Issues
is being held at United Nations Headquarters in New York
from 21 April to 2 May 2008

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/session_seventh.html

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doCip has the pleasure to forward the message below.

Walk4Justice

May 18, 2009

Good day everyone, We hope today finds you all in good health and spirits. We are writing all of you supporters of the Missing and Murdered women and the Walk4Justice. We would like to tell you that the W4J is walking again.

Press Release 

Moose Cree First Nation ratifies Amisk-oo-Skow Comprehensive Agreement

20 May 2009

[Moose Factory, Ontario]: The Moose Cree First Nation have ratified an agreement with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) that resolves past impacts on the Moose Cree First Nation and establishes the foundation for a positive relationship between the Moose Cree First Nation and OPG.

Press release 

From CBC News online http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/090519/n051985A.html

Auditor general wants to lift the lid on MPs' expenses

May 19, 2009 Tim Naumetz, THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA - Canada's auditor general wants to lift the lid on expense claims and other spending by MPs and Senators.

Sheila Fraser began preliminary talks with the House of Commons and Senate earlier this year, well before the expense-claim scandal erupted in Britain.

AFN press release

From CBC online

Canadian Forces want more aboriginals to sign up for the military

May 16, 2009 - Canadian Press Patrice Bergeron, THE CANADIAN PRESS

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's armed forces are looking for young aboriginals who want to build on the long history of their ancestors in helping to defend Canada.