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Bannock Bake-Off

Sioux Lookout ON, July 21, 2008- The Bannock Bake-Off is back again and the teams are ready to compete for the title of the best bannock bakers in town!

The Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee will be hosting this year’s Bannock Bake-Off on Friday August 1st starting at 2:00pm, at the Sioux Lookout Town Beach.

Sioux Lookout Area

Aboriginal Management Board

in cooperation with

EllisDon General Contractor

is hosting a Job Fair on

Friday, July 25, 2008

Open to everyone

From the Timmins DAILY PRESS

Lake Shore Gold working with Wabun First Nations;

Posted By XAVIER KATAQUAPIT, July 18, 2008 

Two Wabun Tribal Council First Nation communities and Lake Shore Gold Corporation will soon be benefiting by the development of the company's Timmins West Gold property only 18 kilometres west of Timmins.

Do you know someone who has made a difference in the well-being of their community?  Someone who has provided excellent health care to the people of NAN?  Someone who is on their way to a career in health?  We want to know who they are! 

The following message is being circulated by Menoyawin Health Centre in Sioux Lookout to let the people in the north know how emergency air transportation is being managed during the construction period that is happening at the Sioux Lookout Airport ....

From: Linkewich, Barb blinkewich@slmhc.on.ca
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 8:53 AM
To: brianbeaton@knet.ca
Subject: FW: Closure of the SLKT Airport nightly from 2100 - 0700

ONTARIO FIRST NATIONS TECHNICAL SERVICES CORPORATION
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
CIRCUIT RIDER TRAINING PROGRAM (CRTP) REQUIRES

Be sure to read the article, "Jail - a lazy response to poverty" that follows the first article.

From the Toronto Star

Prisons poisoning natives - Jails turn out to be 'gladiator schools' for the many aboriginals who end up there

Sandro Contenta, Feature Writer - July 20, 2008

From the Globe and Mail

PM promises fall summit to tackle native issues

BILL CURRY AND BRIAN LAGHI - July 19, 2008

OTTAWA and QUEBEC — Prime Minister Stephen Harper will hold a first ministers meeting this fall with the provinces and territories and has agreed to place aboriginal issues on the agenda.

Deer Lake house of prayer (Amos Rae) is hosting a campmeeting the weekend of August 14,15,16,17, 2008 @ 8pm nightly at the local beach site.

Guests include:

At the AFN Annual Assembly that is being webcast at http://ajax.autocast.ca/viewer/afn_en/live/wm/default.html (requires RealPlayer), the chiefs in assembly passed

Resolution 19 - e-Community for First Nations: A National Framework

AFN Annual General Assembly
July 15-17, 2008 Quebec City, QC
DRAFT Resolution no. 19/2008