Press release

Mother Earth Water Walk Returns and begins April 10, 2011

As the northern snows begin to melt and further south spring rains fall, our Mother Earth awakens and new life begins. At this time of renewal Anishinaabe grandmothers, women and men, and youth from Canada and the United States will continue walking for our waters. The Mother Earth Water Walk began in 2003 in answer to question—“What will you do?”

Ontario First Nations Young Peoples Council
Indigenous Youth Engagement Policy Forum
Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School
Thunder Bay Ontario
April 28 & 29th, 2011

Watch the live webcast at
http://live.knet.ca/coo

Who should attend?

From Winnipeg Free Press

Ex-chief joins new battle - Fontaine assists former day students seeking compensation

Alexandra Paul, April 27, 2011

Lawyer Joan Jack has so far signed up 10,000 former day school students as plaintiffs in a class-action suit.

They were called day students and former national chief Phil Fontaine is working with a Manitoba-born lawyer to seek a settlement for them, similar to the residential school settlement.

AFN Press Release

Assembly of First Nations to Host Election Town Hall on First Nation Priorities - National Chief and Federal Party Candidates to Attend

OTTAWA, April 26 /CNW/ - Media are invited to attend a Town Hall discussion with federal party candidates on First Nation election priorities to be convened by Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo this Wednesday evening in Toronto.

AFN Press release 

AFN Fully Supports Shannen's Dream Day of Action - National Chief: "We Can Make Shannen's Dream a Reality Simply by Doing the Right Thing"

OTTAWA, April 27 - Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo commented on activities being held across the country today, including a walk organized by students of an Ottawa school to bring letters of support for their First Nation peers to Parliament Hill to mark April 27 as the Day of Action in support of Shannen's Dream.

From Canadian Harm Reduction Network facebook page

YOUR VOTE MATTERS

by Canadian Harm Reduction Network

April 22, 2011

An election primer from the Canadian Harm Reduction Network

The Canadian Federal election is due 2 May 2011, and it is important that you vote!  Allowing  the present Conservative regime to carry on is toxic to harm reduction on a number of fronts.

From The Indigenous Environmental Network http://www.ienearth.org/  - Before you vote on be sure to find out who is funding and supporting the development and production of this DIRTY ENERGY ...

From CTV.ca

NDP candidate compares residential schools to Holocaust

Apr. 20, 2011

The former Chief of the FSIN and NDP candidate in the province's most northern federal riding has some people asking questions over his comparison of the Indian residential school system to the Holocaust of the Second World War.

The 7th annual imagineNATIVE tour has wrapped up! We have 10 short videos created by youth in Fort Albany, Timmins, Thunder Bay and Parry Sound and WE NEED YOUR VOTES! We will send the filmmaker whose video has the most votes to the imagineNATIVE Film Festival this October so CAST YOUR VOTE NOW!

From http://www.imaginenative.org/newsdetails.php?id=160

First Nation Native Youth Use Social Media to Highlight “Project 60” to Claim Their Vote