From The Indigenous Environmental Network http://www.ienearth.org/ - Before you vote on be sure to find out who is funding and supporting the development and production of this DIRTY ENERGY ...
Apr. 20, 2011
The former Chief of the FSIN and NDP candidate in the province's most northern federal riding has some people asking questions over his comparison of the Indian residential school system to the Holocaust of the Second World War.
The 7th annual imagineNATIVE tour has wrapped up! We have 10 short videos created by youth in Fort Albany, Timmins, Thunder Bay and Parry Sound and WE NEED YOUR VOTES! We will send the filmmaker whose video has the most votes to the imagineNATIVE Film Festival this October so CAST YOUR VOTE NOW!
Apr 19, 2011
OTTAWA/VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's green energy-friendly province of Ontario is putting up millions of dollars to tempt First Nations groups into the renewable power sector, and deep-pocketed investors are joining their development deals.
Sault College Info:
On June 18, First Nation citizens can file claims against their own governments but the Federal government continues to be exempted from claims by citizens by Harper appointed chair of Human Rights Tribunal (see Open season on First Nations human rights with recent Federal protection agency ruling)
PIKANGIKUM FIRST NATION FORCED TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY
April 15, 2011 - For several days, there has been no supply of potable water or running water in any form. With an on-reserve population of 2,400 community members are now forced to gather water from the nearby lake, which is unsafe to drink. Parents may have no choice but to expose their children to contaminated drinking water. As a result, there is a significant risk of sickness or worse, especially among younger and older citizens.