AFN press release 

AFN urges Ontario to take immediate action to resolve KI Dispute

OTTAWA, Aug. 31 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo called on the province of Ontario to take immediate action to resolve the ongoing dispute between the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation and the exploration company, Platinex.

TRC commissioners face ‘daunting’ task

From the Toronto Star

Welcome to Sandy Lake

Aug 28, 2009 - Carol Goar

SANDY LAKE FIRST NATION—Bread: $5.49 for a loaf of fairly fresh white.

Apples: $8.72 for a package of six.

Oranges: $7.52 for a package of four.

Milk: $3.39 for a litre of 2 per cent.

Kraft cheese slices: $9.29 for a package of 16.

Baby formula: $5.59 for a 385-millilitre can.

Apple juice: $8.95 for a 2-litre can.

Calling Aboriginal Artists
across Canada to apply to participate in the Artisan Village
during the

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

February 12 to 28, 2010

Click here for a PDF copy of the Application Form

APPLICATION DEADLINE of September 30, 2009

Vancouver 2010 Indigenous Youth Gathering
January 30 to February 14, 2010 

Do you want to be part of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games? 

Do you want to meet First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth from across Canada? 

The KI position and efforts to protect the land and the water is clearly presented in video and in print at

http://kitelecom.myknet.org/

From the Toronto Star

One-year halt ordered for Simcoe County dump site - Proposed landfill sits on top of aquifer, opponents argue

Aug 25, 2009 - Gail Swainson, Staff Reporter

MIDHURST – Simcoe County councillors voted this afternoon in favour of a one-year moratorium on the controversial development of the "Site 41" garbage dump in Tiny Township northwest of Barrie.

Report on Best Practices in Governance Provides Examples for First Nations

August 24, 2009

Vancouver - The New Relationship Trust (NRT) and the National Centre for First Nations Governance (NCFNG) today released the Governance Best Practices Report. The report profiles First Nation communities that provide exceptional examples of NCFNG’s principles of effective governance. The best practices are drawn from the experience of First Nations, tribes and Aboriginal organizations across Canada and the United States.

From the Toronto Star

Keep faith with Ontario's far north

Aug 23, 2009

Premier Dalton McGuinty says his government is building a "new respect and working relationship" with First Nations.

Yet chiefs of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) territory – seething over new planning legislation for the far north – are now threatening to "exercise full and exclusive jurisdiction" over traditional lands.