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COO Press Release 

Chiefs in Ontario Encourage First Nation Direction in Reform of Post Secondary Education 

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2009

The Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority will be hosting a Career Fair on March 17, 18 & 19th at the St. Andrews United Church in Sioux Lookout (across from Johnny's Food Market).  The Career Fair will be starting at 9:00 a.m. each day and ending at 3:30  on Tuesday and Thursday and at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

The following booths will be available:

fROM The Canadian Press

PIs To Tacks Down Residential School Abusers 

2009/3/14 - By Sue Bailey

OTTAWA — The federal government will hire up to 10 private investigation firms to track down former staff and students accused of abuse in native residential schools.

Former teachers, clergy, other staff and students have been named as perpetrators in several thousand compensation claims.

The short film TURTLE LODGE by Toronto filmmaker Adriana Capozzi has been selected as a finalist at TVO's Allan King Film Festival -- it is one of 3 finalists - and the only Aboriginal entry - and you can vote next week online.
 
Please vote for the TURTLE LODGE and please ask all your contacts to go online to view the 5 minute film and vote as of Monday March 16, 2009 at:
 

From THE TIMMINS DAILY PRESS

First Nation leaders tackle tough issues

Posted By CHELSEY ROMAIN

March 13, 2009 

After three days of intense debate and discussion, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy is confident First Nation communities will move forward.

Between 50 and 70 resolutions were expected to be passed by the end of the three-day annual Winter Chiefs Assembly in Timmins on Thursday afternoon.

From the Canadian Press

Paul Martin says Canada's top CEOs interested in fund to build aboriginal business

March 11, 2009

TORONTO — A new $50-million fund to build aboriginal business and entrepreneurship has some of Canada's top chief executives and business leaders pledging their support, former prime minister Paul Martin said Wednesday.

The State of The First Nation Economy and The Struggle to Make Poverty History

The 61 page report is available at http://www.afn.ca/misc/FSFNE.pdf   

From the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

From UNESCO Cultural Sector

UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.

INVITATION to

I AM... Gallery Opening

Friday, March 13
7:30pm
A-Frame Gallery, Sioux Lookout

I Am ... is a portrait series that seeks to celebrate Indigenous Peoples of Treaty 3 and 9.