From the Orilla Packet and Times online

Natives look to Ottawa for Site 41 solution - 'Permanent' campsite set up at proposed dump location near Elmvale

May 11, 2008 - Posted By Douglas Glynn, Midland Free Press 

ELMVALE – Members of Beausoleil First Nation have established a permanent campsite at the entrance to Site 41 - and have put the call out to other First Nations people across the country to join with them.

Community Based Research Training Workshop
April 27 to 29, 2009
Sioux Lookout

From the Toronto Star

'Status Indians' face threat of extinction - In some communities, last children with historic rights will be born as early as 2012

May 10, 2009 - Nicholas Keung, IMMIGRATION REPORTER

Leaning against a creamy white war monument on the 1,200-hectare Alderville First Nation reserve north of Cobourg, Wayne Beaver wonders how long his ancestors' land will remain in his people's hands.

TO: All First Nation Citizens
DATE: May 7, 2009
FROM: Angus Toulouse, Ontario Regional Chief
RE: REQUIRED BORDER SECURITY DOCUMENTS

From the ICT for Development web site  

For immediate release

(SAULT STE. MARIE – May 8th, 2009): – The Ontario Native Welfare Administrators’ Association (ONWAA), a provincial organization representing First Nation Social Service Administrators, and Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, ON are pleased to announce that they have entered into a partnership agreement to provide academic instruction to First Nation Social Services Administrators in Ontario. The signing of the agreement will take place at Algoma University on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 1:00pm in the ICT Board Room (NW306).

From IPS news 

U.S.: Obama Urged to Sign Native Rights Declaration

By Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS, May 6 (IPS) - The United States is considering whether to endorse a major U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for the recognition of the rights of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples over their lands and resources.

Ontario press release 

McGuinty Government Uses Federal Funding To Improve Community Safety

TORONTO, May 7 - Forty new police constables will soon be working in First Nations communities in Ontario.

Thunder Bay Community Cup

Hockey with aboriginal youth this Saturday at the Fort William First Nation Arena. 

This event is to help break some barriers between Aborignal Youth and Police and vise Versa. 

If you have any questions , please feel free to email me or call my cell.

Thanks

From the Winnipeg Sun  

Hero saves teen in river - Homeless man risks life after he saw male jump

By JASON HALSTEAD, SUN MEDIA - 5th May 2009

A homeless Winnipeg man is being hailed as a hero after pulling a teenager from the Red River, which is still swift and swollen from floodwaters.