From CBC.ca
October 8, 2008
Aboriginal groups are concerned that a federal government bureaucrat who is not aboriginal has been chosen to be the new executive director of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
October 07, 2008
More preschoolers at a Northwestern Ontario First Nation will be able to attend a daycare program that promotes Ojibway culture and language thanks to an investment by the province.
Bro. Peter Munro
Toronto, On.
Bro. Randy Moskotaywanene
Sioux Lookout, On.
Bro. Samson Beardy,
October 07, 2008
Canada needs to do more to fix the child poverty rate because it has remained virtually unchanged in two decades, says an annual quality of life report card released Tuesday by the Community Foundations of Canada.
The non-governmental organization said the Vital Signs 2008 report shows more than one in five children (1.6 million or 23%) lived in poverty in 2006.
October 7, 2008 - By Peter Nowak CBC News
The Conservatives are promising to reintroduce controversial copyright-reform legislation if they are re-elected, according to the party's official platform released on Tuesday.
The Global Alliance for ICT and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID) recently approved the Northern Indigenous Community Satellite Network (NICSN) and our international partner's proposal to establish a Community of Expertise entitled "Indigenous Peoples’ Appropriating the Knowledge Society (IPAKS) Through Satellite Enabled Broadband Networking".
The objective of this Community of Expertise as outlined in the proposal is:
Keewaytinook Okimakanak and Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund have delivered four of the six workshops in the Business Development Series. Checkout the next two workshops at a video conference site in your community. Contact your community technician or martinakanakakeesic@knet.ca 877.737.5638 X 1266 to register.
AFN press release ...
OTTAWA, Oct. 6 - AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine and AFN Women's Council Chair, Kathleen McHugh are calling on women across Canada to celebrate First Nations Women's Day by making donations to support, "one of the longest standing and important human rights cases in Canadian history."
Telecommunities press release ...
VICTORIA, BC, Oct. 6 /CNW Telbec/ - Telecommunities Canada (TC) today launched the "Internet for Everyone" campaign (www.internetforeveryone.ca) that seeks to put a national ICT strategy back on the federal agenda.