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From the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal

Food banks caught in the middle as prices rise

Sarah Elizabeth Brown 06/28/2008

Food, gas and energy prices are soaring and more Ontarians are having a tougher time paying basic bills.

Caught in between are food banks, which are feeling the pinch of higher food and fuel prices as well as seeing more people coming to them for help.

Ending Poverty in Ontario:
Building Capacity and Organizing for Change
A Workshop for Engaging Low Income People

Spring 2008

This manual has been developed by Campaign 2000 and Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) to assist facilitators to hold community-based workshops with low income people and other community members active in ending poverty. The workshop is designed to encourage discussion about what is needed to end poverty in Ontario, and to identify actions that can be taken within your community.

Click on the link below to download a copy of MNDM's updated June 2008 Quick Reference to Funding Sources for Canada-Wide and Ontario-Based Organizations booklet (Word document, 778K).  

http://knet.ca/documents/MNDM-Funding-Sources-June2008 .doc

First Nations once again are forced to take the protection of their treaty and traditional rights to court as the media and others fight to remove the recognition of these rights ...

From Halifax's Chronicle Herald

Kashechewan First Nation Chief and Council press release

June 25, 2008

Today, the Chief and Council of Kashechewan First Nation has served noticed to Nishnawbe Aski Police Service advising them that Kashechewan First Nation is pulling out of the current policing agreement. The Leadership has notified Nishnawbe Aski Police Service that it has given a 90 day grace period for the community to look at other options for policing.

Anishinabek Nation press release 

Anishinabek outlaw term 'aboriginal'

    WHITEFISH RIVER FIRST NATION, ON,June 25 /CNW/ - Chiefs of the 42 member communities of the Anishinabek Nation have launched a campaign to eliminate the inappropriate use of the term "aboriginal".

    During the annual Grand Council Assembly in this Manitoulin Island community, Chiefs endorsed a resolution that characterized the word as "another means of assimilation through the displacement of our First Nation-specific inherent and treaty rights."

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY BEING HELD IN FREDERICTON

June 26th to the 28th

Theme: Citizens, Groups, Communities and Information and Communication Technologies

Writing Lab Instructor [Part-Time Contract Term Appointment]

Algoma University

1520 Queen St. East, Sault Ste. Marie, ON Canada P6A 2G4

FIRST NATIONS SUMMER ICE HOCKEY TOURNAMENT

2008

IN

DRYDEN, ONATRIO

JULY 23, 24, AND 25TH, 2008

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12 FIRST NATION - COMMUNITY BASED TEAMS ONLY

2 YOUTH ATOMS HOCKEY EXHIBITION GAMES