KO team presenting at NAHO conference along with their partners from the NRC and NOSM
November 23, 2009 - 11:43pm | by brianbeatonKerri Gibson (NRC), Heather Coulson (KOTM), and Susan O’Donnell (NRC) are in Ottawa to present their paper entitled "Telemental Health with Remote and Rural First Nations: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Ways Forward" at the National Aboriginal Health Organisation (NAHO) Conference. The conference is happening this week, November 24-27.
AFN leader challenges governments to deal with child poverty and despair in First Nations
November 23, 2009 - 10:59pm | by brianbeatonCanadian aboriginal chief decries child poverty
OTTAWA, November 23, 2009 — Canadian aboriginal children are being raised in "extreme poverty," the nation's top chief lamented Monday, two decades after parliament voted unanimously to eradicate child poverty.
Keewaywin First Nation leaders appealing for help to deal with prescription drug problem
November 22, 2009 - 11:21pm | by brianbeatonDrug abuse sparks crisis on reserve
BRYAN MEADOWS - November 22, 2009
Illegal use of prescription drugs is so rampant on the Keewaywin First Nation that the band‘s chief has declared “a state of crisis.”
“Keewaywin is completely overwhelmed . . . ,” Chief Joe Meekis told The Chronicle-Journal.
He estimates that almost half of the remote reserve‘s adult population is abusing prescription narcotics.
Video gives voice to Aboriginal Women struggling with addictions and legal challenges
November 21, 2009 - 3:49pm | by brianbeatonPress release
You-Tube Video Gives Voice to Aboriginal Women Struggling with Drug Addiction: U of S-Community Research Project
Nov. 19, 2009
A powerful new music video From Stilettos to Moccasins was released this week, the culmination of a unique project that gave voice to Aboriginal women healing from drug abuse, addictions and problems with the law, together with those who are helping them on their journey.
Ottawa refuses to give First Nations point of sale exemption from HST in Ontario
November 20, 2009 - 3:19pm | by brianbeatonOnt. says Ottawa refuses to give First Nations point of sale exemption from HST
By Keith Leslie (CP) – November 19, 2009
TORONTO — Ontario's Liberal government said Thursday that the federal Conservatives are refusing to allow First Nations in the province to retain their point of sale exemption from the provincial portion of the 13 per cent harmonized sales tax that kicks in next July.
Leaders challenging the inequities in First Nations education funding and its impact on students
November 20, 2009 - 7:45am | by brianbeatonPress release
First Nation children, families and their protection agencies under attack by governments
November 19, 2009 - 5:06am | by brianbeatonGive equal funding to Native children on reserves - Federal funding for First Nations children is 22 percent less than provincial funding off-reserve.
by John Baglow - November 17, 2009
Zone doctors from the Sioux Lookout Zone Family Practice Association dissolving their corporation
November 19, 2009 - 4:15am | by brianbeatonPress release
Artists visit First Nation schools online during their trans-Canada trip for their Olympic exhibition
November 18, 2009 - 11:20am | by brianbeatonOlympic Artists share their story with KIHS and First Nation schools via a Videoconference/Webcast
Click here to view the archive of the webcast
Live webcast of Food Symposium hosted by Nishnawbe Aski Nation in Thunder Bay
November 18, 2009 - 10:57am | by brianbeatonClick here for the live webcast of NAN's first Food Symposium
NAN 1st Food Symposium
November 18 & 19
Location: NorWester Hotel
TOPICS and PRESENTATIONS include:
