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Press release

The Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Keewaytinook Okimakanak, Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre and all the First Nation partner schools are gathering in Thunder Bay for their FNSSP conference (Dec 1 to 3).

Everyone is invited to join watch the presenters and the conference in progress by going to http://meeting.knet.ca and double click on the live meeting gathering.

For more information about the FNSSP project please consider enrolling in the project web site at http://fnssp.knet.ca

Youth in Business

December 1, 2010 1:30-3:00 CST

Free by Video Conference and webstream.

Contact WesleyMckay@knet.ca to register

From MNDMF press room

Winter Roads Connect Far North Communities - McGuinty Government Helps Improve Access To Goods And Services For Northerners

Press release

Ontario Honours Six Youth From Across The Province - Bartleman Awards Celebrate Young Aboriginal Writers

Six young aboriginal writers are receiving the James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing Awards.

This year's recipients include a 13-year-old Toronto boy's writings about his younger sister's struggles with a learning disability, a poem about isolation in a small community, a collection of poems about family members and a poem about Aboriginal youth transitioning from northern communities to urban centres.

Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards 2010 winners

Friday November 26th 2010

A vibrant list as diversified as the music itself made up the assembly of winners at the podium at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. Hamilton, Ontario (November 26th, 2010)

The twenty-two winners represented all parts of Canada. New performers to seasoned artists submitted music with an overall emphasis of fusion of Aboriginal and mainstream treatment of their music.

Press release

2010 Report Card on Child Poverty in Ontario

Toronto, Nov. 24 - Ontario's child poverty rate is on the rise with more than 1 in every 6 children growing up in a low income household, says a new report from the anti-poverty coalition Ontario Campaign 2000. The Ontario government needs to step up investment or it will not meet its target to cut child poverty by 25% by 2013.

Anishinabek Nation press release 

Bell Canada failing First Nation customers

UOI OFFICES, Nov. 25 /CNW/ - Hundreds of First Nations telephone customers across Ontario are complaining about service providers failing to follow government direction to refund the provincial sales tax portion of the Harmonized Sales Tax.