From the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal
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.
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).
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 ...
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
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."
June 26th to the 28th
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