Wasaya celebrating 20 years of successful business operations serving remote First Nations
July 17, 2010 - 10:16pm | by brianbeatonFrom Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal
Airline‘s success offered as inspiration
Northwest Bureau - 07/17/2010
Wasaya Group Inc. will celebrate the company‘s 20 anniversary during a ceremony July 28 on the Wunnumin Lake First Nation.
Aboriginal Skills and Partnership Fund to create jobs and economic opportunities for workers
July 16, 2010 - 9:52pm | by brianbeatonPress release
Invitation to Assembly of First Nations' Annual General Assembly in Winnipeg - July 20-22
July 16, 2010 - 1:11pm | by brianbeatonAFN Press release
New funding structure for physicians serving First Nations and regional hospital in the Sioux Lookout Area
July 15, 2010 - 11:48pm | by brianbeaton
Press release
New funding structure for physicians in the Sioux Lookout Area - IMPROVING ACCESS TO PHYSICIAN SERVICES
Sioux Lookout, ON, July 14, 2010
Moose Factory First Nation hospital and area health authority integrating with provincil hospital
July 15, 2010 - 11:39pm | by brianbeatonPress release
MOOSONEE AND MOOSE FACTORY HOSPITALS TO PROCEED WITH INTEGRATION
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 (Moosonee) – After a three-year process, historic resolutions were signed today in Moosonee, Ontario confirming commitment to integrate the provincial James Bay General Hospital and the federal Weeneebayko Health Ahtuskaywin into the new Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA).
Making apprenticeship programs work with meaningful remote First Nation partnership
July 14, 2010 - 1:20pm | by brianbeatonFrom CTV.ca http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article1638615.html
Tapping a fresh northern resource
Patrick White
Here’s the first thing you should know about Jamie Saulnier: His Manitoba-based construction company is going gangbusters. We’re talking crazy growth – 14-fold revenue growth in four years, or enough to make the 37-year-old former welder very popular with his bankers.
Broadband across Canada? - World Congress on Information Technology coming in 2012
July 13, 2010 - 1:05pm | by brianbeatonCanadians 'doomed to be digital tourists' - Is Montreal ready to showcase itself as a leader in 2012's 18th World Congress on Information Technology?
By David Crane, Montreal Gazette July 2, 2010
MONTREAL - In something of a coup, Montreal was chosen to host the 18th World Congress on Information Technology in 2012, beating out the United States, which had expected to be the host.
Job Opportunity - Finance Manager at KO in Balmertown
July 13, 2010 - 10:40am | by Anonymous96 First Nations in the bottom 100 communities across Canada with well-being gap getting worse
July 13, 2010 - 8:55am | by brianbeatonFirst Nations’ well-being gap getting worse
By MINDELLE JACOBS, QMI Agency - July 13, 2010 12:00am
There is no more agonizing example of the mistaken belief that heaps of money alone will mend broken lives than the ongoing socio-economic catastrophe engulfing Canada’s aboriginals.
Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations receive funding from Ontario's New Relationship fund
July 12, 2010 - 8:20pm | by brianbeatonNew Relationship Fund 2010-11 Core Consultation Capacity Funding Recipients
Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations (Deer Lake, Fort Severn, Keewaywin, McDowell Lake, North Spirit Lake and Poplar Hill) are successful receipents of their 2010-2011 projects for the New Relationship Fund's Core Consultation Capacity. The program will assist communities in building fundamental consultation and engagement capacity related to lands and resources.
There are 119 First Nations and 33 Métis communities receiving Core Consultation Capacity funding for 2010-2011.
