on Thursday, December 11, 2008 from 9:30-1:30 Central time (10:30-2:30 Eastern time).
Over 30 First Nations sites will be participating nationwide:
December 8, 2008
Aboriginal day school students are launching a class action lawsuit hoping to receive compensation for alleged abuse during the residential school era.
It is estimated 75,000 day school students attended government funded, church-run residential schools. But they lived in boarding houses, convents, hostels and orphanages, rather than school dormitories.
Press release
December 9, 2008
AFN press release ...
OTTAWA, Dec. 10 /CNW Telbec/ - This International Day for Human Rights on December 10 marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
AFN press release
OTTAWA, Dec. 9 /CNW Telbec/ - At the opening of the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa today, AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine announced the details of an Economic Stimulus Package for First Nations that will be discussed by First Nations leadership during the three-day Assembly.
Last weekend in his weekly radio address, President-Elect Barack Obama announced that he would be including money for broadband deployment and adoption in his economic recovery plan (http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/the_key_parts_of_the_jobs_plan).
Obama said:
February 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , March 1 , 2009
Sioux Lookout ARENA
Novice ,- 6 ,7 years old
Atoms - 8 , 9 ,10 years old
Peewees ,10,11,12 years old
Bantams - 13 , 14 , 15 years old
Midgets- 15,16, 17 years old ...No 18 years olds - dont ask
News Release
“I had sex without a condom with someone I hardly know, is it possible for me to have contracted HIVor a Sexually Transmitted Infection? What do I do now?”
(Ottawa—December 5, 2008) Aboriginal youth now have a new on-line resource to help them get answers to these and other questions about HIV/AIDS, thanks to a new website.
AFN press release
OTTAWA, Dec. 4 /CNW Telbec/ - The Assembly of First Nations, the national political organization representing First Nations in Canada, will convene a Special Chiefs Assembly at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa, ON from December 9-11.
Ontario government press release
TORONTO, Dec. 4
Ontario's poverty reduction strategy will reduce the number of children living in poverty by 25 per cent over 5 years - lifting 90,000 kids out of poverty - by boosting benefits for low-income families and enhancing publicly-funded education.
The strategy will represent an additional annual investment of over $1.4 billion at full implementation - including $300 million in new targeted initiatives: