Archive - Nov 25, 2010

1 in every 6 children in Ontario are growing up in a low income household - report

Press release

2010 Report Card on Child Poverty in Ontario

Toronto, Nov. 24 - Ontario's child poverty rate is on the rise with more than 1 in every 6 children growing up in a low income household, says a new report from the anti-poverty coalition Ontario Campaign 2000. The Ontario government needs to step up investment or it will not meet its target to cut child poverty by 25% by 2013.

Challenge to get First Nation PST exemption for phone, cell, internet, cable and satellite services

Anishinabek Nation press release 

Bell Canada failing First Nation customers

UOI OFFICES, Nov. 25 /CNW/ - Hundreds of First Nations telephone customers across Ontario are complaining about service providers failing to follow government direction to refund the provincial sales tax portion of the Harmonized Sales Tax.

Aboriginal Health & Intergenerational Relationships conference in Sudbury, Jan 17, 2011

Aboriginal Health and Intergenerational Relationships Conference 
January 17, 2011
Sudbury, Ontario

Aboriginal Health Care has diverse traditional holistic healing methods, handed down from ancestors that are modeled on balance. However, intergenerational relationships have been disrupted in the past, upsetting the harmony of health care knowledge.