Archive - May 4, 2010

Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission visiting Sioux Lookout on May 12-13

Sioux Lookout Coalition for Healing and Reconciliation
℅ Sioux Lookout Anti-racism Committee
P. O. Box 1194
Sioux Lookout, Ontario
P8T 1B7

Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Visit Sioux Lookout on May 12 and 13, 2010

April 29, 2010 – Sioux Lookout, ON – Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is scheduled to visit Sioux Lookout on May 12 and 13, 2010. The visit is hosted by the Sioux Lookout Coalition for Healing and Reconciliation.

Saugeen First Nation Green Building Project creates new eight unit housing facility

From the GovMonitor.ca

Canada Completes Housing Development At Saugeen First Nation In Ontario

Source: Government of Canada - May 1, 2010

The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, announced the completion of construction of an innovative eight-unit housing development for Saugeen First Nation in Ontario.

Ontario proposes to work with First Nations to administer forests under new framework

From MNDMF site  

A proposed framework to modernize Ontario’s Forest Tenure and Pricing System

Ontario understands it must change the way it administers its timber resources. That is why in August 2009, Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry Michael Gravelle released a paper to stimulate discussion on how the forest tenure and pricing system could be improved and updated to support a revitalized forest industry.