Archive - Mar 17, 2010

NAN / ONECA reject new "think tank" report about First Nation post-secondary funding

Submitter Name: 
Brian Beaton

Press releases

NAN rejects report on First Nation post-secondary school funding

THUNDER BAY, ON, March 18 /CNW/ - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose has rejected a recent report that recommends stripping First Nations of local control over the Post-Secondary School Support Program (PSSSP) for their students.

Free to Learn: Giving Aboriginal Youth Control over Their Post-Secondary Education, was released March 15, 2010 by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy.

Poverty and housing crisis in First Nations leading many young people into gang activity

Submitter Name: 
Brian Beaton

From CTV.ca 

Native gangs spreading across Canada, says RCMP 

The Canadian Press

Date: Tuesday Mar. 16, 2010 7:03 AM ET

Aboriginal gangs are proliferating across Canada as criminal organizations exploit the intense poverty and squalid conditions that many First Nations youth live in, says a top officer with the RCMP's aboriginal police division.