Bearskin and Wunnumin Lake First Nation youth honoured with Creative Writing Award
November 28, 2008 - 4:29am | by brianbeatonOntario press release ...
Aboriginal Youth Receive First Bartleman Awards - Young Poets, Storywriters Recognized
TORONTO, Nov. 27
A 10-year old poet from a remote First Nation community will be among the six young writers to receive the first James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing Award.
First Nations included in plan to bring Broadband connections to all of Saskatchewan
November 27, 2008 - 11:56am | by AnonymousSaskatchewan press release ...
Premier Announces 100 per cent High Speed Internet Coverage for Saskatchewan - $129 Million Infrastructure Plan Will Also Bring Cell Coverage Up To 98 Per Cent
November 26, 2008
Premier Brad Wall said Saskatchewan will have 100 per cent high speed Internet coverage within three years as the result of a major investment announced today.
Voices of Our Sisters In Spirit: A Research and Policy Report to Families and Communities
November 27, 2008 - 7:43am | by brianbeatonFrom the Native Women's Association of Canada ...
Voices of Our Sisters In Spirit: A Research and Policy Report to Families and Communities
President’s Acknowledgements
Attawakipskat youth continuing the struggle for a new school while INAC presents their numbers
November 27, 2008 - 7:38am | by brianbeatonAboriginal students protest shoddy school
The Canadian Press - November 27, 2008
Toronto -- Students from a Northern Ontario aboriginal community relegated for years to a makeshift school rallied hundreds of their provincial peers in Toronto yesterday in a bid to gain a proper school.
DigitalOntario hosting a series of e-Panels on the importance of broadband and ICT to the economy
November 26, 2008 - 10:27am | by brianbeatonEveryone is invited to register for the two upcoming online e-Panels that Digital Ontario is hosting as part of its research into the importance of broadband to the province's economy. Send an e-mail to digitalontario@ontario.ca to register for these events.
INAC seeking First Nation input into a "New Federal Framework for Aboriginal Economic Development"
November 26, 2008 - 7:34am | by brianbeatonCanadian Institute for Health Information report shows how poverty contributes to poor health
November 26, 2008 - 3:10am | by brianbeatonNew report from The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
President-elect Obama involving First Nation leaders in planning process for new government
November 25, 2008 - 3:26pm | by brianbeatonObama appoints Native officials to transition team
By JODI RAVE
As President-elect Barack Obama appoints a new team of cabinet members and fills other key federal work posts, he's named six Native people to his transition team - half of them assigned to assist in Interior Department policy, budget and personnel changes.
Aboriginal Apprentice Coach Program searching for First Nation coaches for Ontario teams
November 25, 2008 - 11:39am | by brianbeatonMEMORANDUM
DATE: November 18, 2008
TO: Aboriginal Team Ontario Leaders
Ministry “Activator” Regional Advisors
FROM: Susan Kitchen, Executive Director, Coaches Association of Ontario
Anita Comella, A/Director, Sport and Recreation Branch
UN drawing attention to hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada
November 24, 2008 - 11:13pm | by brianbeatonCanada must probe cases of slain, missing aboriginal women: UN
November 24, 2008
The United Nations is calling on the Canadian government to investigate why hundreds of deaths and disappearances of aboriginal women remain unsolved.
It's asking Ottawa to report back in a year on the status of more than 500 cases that "have neither been fully investigated nor attracted priority attention, with the perpetrators remaining unpunished."
