Archive - 2013

February 6th

Two teenage girls work on Books With No Bounds to send NAN First Nation schools books and supplies

After listening to a CBC radio interview with two teenagers from Oakville, KO Education Advisor, Gloria Hendrick-Laliberte contacted them to find out more about their initiative called Books with No Bounds.

After a few emails and phone calls, a request for books for the KO communities with schools was made.

The girls made sure that they had shipments of books for the KO schools. Since that time they have sent books, resources, and craft supplies to the schools. 

February 5th

AANDC's Aboriginal Art Acquisition Program accepting submissions to Feb 15, 2013

Local Aboriginal artists are encouraged to submit their work for the Aboriginal Art Acquisition Program.

Submissions are being accepted until February 15, and the chosen pieces will be showcased at the Aboriginal Art Collection in Gatineau, Quebec.

Collections Coordinator Kevin Gibbs says artists must be at least 18-years-old and be of First Nations, Métis or Inuit ancestry.

Eligibility criteria:

Lac Seul First Nation hosting "ABCs of Entrepreneurship" Workshop with Wab Kinew - Thursday, Feb 7

Plans are being made to webstream the workshop on KNET ... watch http://meeting.knet.ca for the workshop

Click here for a copy of the poster

February 4th

February 3rd

February 2nd

Debate about broadband connections being a Public Utility like hydro, phones, water, roads

From Business.time.com

Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility?

By - Jan. 09, 2013 Crawford, SusanCourtesy of Yale University Press

February 1st

Courts rule that TRC must get all documents about Indian residential schools from Ottawa

From the Globe and Mail

Ontario Superior Court

Ottawa ordered to find and release millions of Indian residential school records

GLORIA GALLOWAY - Jan. 30 2013

People in Toronto and other cities get more government funding than people in First Nations

From OLTHUIS, KLEER, TOWNSHEND, L.L.P., 

Taking a second look at those Attawapiskat numbers

Posted on January 18, 2013

by: Lorraine Land, Lawyer at Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend, L.L.P., Toronto