Ginoogaming and Long Lake #58 First Nation students documenting their communities

From Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal

Youth get chance to speak up

Kris Ketonen - January 28, 2011

Environmental groups claim woodland caribou threatened by Ontario's industry exemptions

Press release 

Ontario fails to protect threatened species - Groups alarmed by new exemption under the Endangered Species Act 

January 25, 2011

Toronto – Leading conservation organizations are concerned that the McGuinty government has placed woodland caribou and its own North American-leading species legislation at risk by exempting a swath of industries from accountability under Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Fort Severn First Nation and its leaders recognized by federal government

From Netnewsledger.com

Greg Rickford Salutes Fort Severn First Nation

Fort Severn First Nation

Call for Applications for the RBC After-School Grants Project deadline of March 4

Press release

Call for Applications for the RBC After-School Grants Project 

Deadline to apply is March 4, 2011

Toronto, January 24, 2011— RBC today announced its call for grant applications for the 2011-2012 school year as the RBC After-School Grants Project is offering more than $2 million in grants to fund first-time and renewed grant recipients.

"Preparing for the Big Mobile Revolution" - mobile payments, 4G networks and smartphones

AFN organizes Online "Virtual Summit" for First Nation Students on Post-secondary Education

Online "Virtual Summit" for First Nation Students on Post-secondary Education

Assembly of First Nations Convenes Online "Virtual Summit" for First Nation Students on Post-secondary Education

Evacuating women from remote First Nations for births traumatic, harmful and costly

From the Ottawa Citizen  

The residential schools of medicine

Evacuating women out of remote communities to give birth is traumatic, harmful to communities and costly. So why is it still happening?

By Elizabeth Payne

Sandy Lake First Nation gets $1 million from NOHFC for new Child Development Centre

Ontario Press Release 

First Nation Builds New Early Childhood Development Centre

January 17, 2011

McGuinty Government Helps Improve Community Infrastructure And Support Families

The construction of a new centre in Sandy Lake First Nation will help give families easier access to prenatal and early childhood care and services and create five new permanent jobs.

Five NAN First Nations Young People invited to apply to attend Tobacco Talk gathering

Tobacco Talk

January 28 - 30, 2011
Thunder Bay, ON
Victoria INN Hotel

Click here for a copy of the application (poster and guidelines included)