INAC News Release
SIOUX LOOKOUT, ONTARIO (January 23, 2009) * Thirty remote First Nation communities in northern Ontario will benefit from improved winter road networks, thanks to the Government of Canada.
From Western Catholic Reporter
BY GLEN ARGAN - WESTERN CATHOLIC REPORTER
Edmonton - Former students of Indian residential schools often see being removed from their homes as the greatest suffering they experienced, says Maggie Hodgson.
January 21, 2009
The National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project to allow Canadians to see its films through online streaming.
Media Release
Pelican Falls First Nations High School located 5 kilometers outside of Sioux Lookout Ontario is attempting to set a Guinness World Record in mattress stacking during its Winter Carnival January 29, to Feb 1, 2009.
From The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton
By Kyle Mullin - January 22nd, 2009
From http://www.ispeakforcanadianrivers.ca
Transport Canada is in the process of rewriting the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) to eliminate a developer’s obligation to consider impacts on navigation when building dams, bridges, causeways or other invasive structures on thousands of waterways across Canada.
Derek Kakegamick Memorial Hockey Tournament
February 11 - 14, 2009
Sandy Lake Ontario
Entry Fee $2500.00
Prizes:
Championship $25,000.00
NAN press release ...
THUNDER BAY, ON Tuesday January 20, 2009: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan Beardy made the following statement on today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America:
Press release ...
(Toronto, January 19, 2009) Canada’s Federal Court will be hearing a lawsuit today against the Minister of the Environment for failing to ensure that Canada’s mining industry publicly reports the hundreds of millions of kilograms of toxic pollution it generates each year.