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From the Barrie Examiner

Rama's casino cash battle denied  Rama's casino cash battle denied

Posted By JENNIFER BURDEN, QMI AGENCY - July 21, 2010

The Chippewas of Rama First Nation were denied their appeal application to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) regarding the 35% Casino Rama revenue case on July 8.

As a result of the SCC's decision, all avenues of appeal have been exhausted.

AFN press release

Creating sustainable First Nation economies is focus of new $2.5 million poverty reduction project: Assembly of First Nations Leads Initiative with Support of Canadian Institutes of Health Research

WINNIPEG, July 20 /CNW Telbec/ - First Nation communities struggling to break the cycle of poverty and despair will soon be the focus of a major $2.5 million intervention research project aimed at creating long-term strategies for sustainable economies that improve community health and well-being.

July 19, 2010 - Across the North, the mining sector is exploding. It presents many Aboriginal communities with valuable opportunities to engage in a long-term process of capacity building. It is also placing these communities under great pressure to make decisions quickly and without a full understanding of the effects mining can have on a region – positive and negative, long-term and short-term.

AFN press release

AFN National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo Launches "IndigenACTION", Aimed at Supporting Healthy Lifestyles, Fitness and Sport

WINNIPEG, July 18 /CNW Telbec/ - Today Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, together with AFN Youth Council Chair Joshua Gottfriedson and Olympian Waneek Horn Miller, launched an initiative to support and further enhance opportunities for Indigenous peoples and communities through active lifestyles, sport and fitness.

From Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal

Airline‘s success offered as inspiration

Northwest Bureau - 07/17/2010

Wasaya Group Inc. will celebrate the company‘s 20 anniversary during a ceremony July 28 on the Wunnumin Lake First Nation.

Press release

AFN Press release

Press release 

New funding structure for physicians in the Sioux Lookout Area - IMPROVING ACCESS TO PHYSICIAN SERVICES

Sioux Lookout, ON, July 14, 2010

Press release 

MOOSONEE AND MOOSE FACTORY HOSPITALS TO PROCEED WITH INTEGRATION

Thursday, July 15th, 2010 (Moosonee) – After a three-year process, historic resolutions were signed today in Moosonee, Ontario confirming commitment to integrate the provincial James Bay General Hospital and the federal Weeneebayko Health Ahtuskaywin into the new Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA).

From CTV.ca http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article1638615.html

Tapping a fresh northern resource

Patrick White

Here’s the first thing you should know about Jamie Saulnier: His Manitoba-based construction company is going gangbusters. We’re talking crazy growth – 14-fold revenue growth in four years, or enough to make the 37-year-old former welder very popular with his bankers.