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UOI press release 

First Nations looking at energy project opportunities

OJIBWAYS OF GARDEN RIVER FIRST NATION, Nov. 24 /CNW/ - Anishinabek Nation Chiefs in Assembly passed an important resolution today giving the Union of Ontario Indians a strong mandate to advocate and support Anishinabek First Nations as builders and operators of transmission lines.

"We have to take advantage of every opportunity that comes our way," says Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee.

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Presents an Opportunity for Positive Change

Ottawa, ON (November 25, 2009) – Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), called today for an end to violence against all women in Canada. November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

The Post-Secondary Student Support Program: An Examination of Alternative Delivery Mechanisms

A Report to the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada from the Educational Policy Institute

November, 2009

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Share Your Stories - Help Write the Story of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

This is an invitation to participate in a roundtable discussion in Thunder Bay, ON on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 from 7−9 p.m., as part of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ content and story-gathering tour across Canada.

This is an opportunity to contribute your experiences and your perspectives to Canada’s newest national museum, due to open in Winnipeg in 2012.

Kerri Gibson (NRC), Heather Coulson (KOTM), and Susan O’Donnell (NRC) are in Ottawa to present their paper entitled "Telemental Health with Remote and Rural First Nations: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Ways Forward" at the National Aboriginal Health Organisation (NAHO) Conference. The conference is happening this week, November 24-27.

From AFP

Canadian aboriginal chief decries child poverty

OTTAWA, November 23, 2009 — Canadian aboriginal children are being raised in "extreme poverty," the nation's top chief lamented Monday, two decades after parliament voted unanimously to eradicate child poverty.

From the Chronicle Journal

Drug abuse sparks crisis on reserve

BRYAN MEADOWS - November 22, 2009

Illegal use of prescription drugs is so rampant on the Keewaywin First Nation that the band‘s chief has declared “a state of crisis.”

“Keewaywin is completely overwhelmed . . . ,” Chief Joe Meekis told The Chronicle-Journal.

He estimates that almost half of the remote reserve‘s adult population is abusing prescription narcotics.

Press release 

You-Tube Video Gives Voice to Aboriginal Women Struggling with Drug Addiction: U of S-Community Research Project 

 Nov. 19, 2009

A powerful new music video From Stilettos to Moccasins was released this week, the culmination of a unique project that gave voice to Aboriginal women healing from drug abuse, addictions and problems with the law, together with those who are helping them on their journey.

From Canadian Press

Ont. says Ottawa refuses to give First Nations point of sale exemption from HST

By Keith Leslie (CP) – November 19, 2009

TORONTO — Ontario's Liberal government said Thursday that the federal Conservatives are refusing to allow First Nations in the province to retain their point of sale exemption from the provincial portion of the 13 per cent harmonized sales tax that kicks in next July.

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