Changing the production of status cards by INAC in Ottawa early in 2009 to create "secure" card
September 4, 2008 - 5:50am | by brianbeatonA recent news release from the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (see below) highlights some of the changes that First Nations can expect "early in 2009" when a new status card is required. For more information about INAC's plans for producing these new "secure" status cards visit the INAC web site at http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/pub/ywtk/ifk-eng.asp.
Funding Competition for Participatory Learning in the innovative use of digital media
September 3, 2008 - 9:36am | by brianbeaton"Outside Looking In" performing arts production team working with Pikangikum First Nation
September 3, 2008 - 7:19am | by brianbeatonPress Release ...
Pikangikum First Nation in Northwestern Ontario Selected as Tracee Smith Launches Outside Looking In Second Debut
Toronto, September 3, 2008: Outside Looking In proudly presents their second annual debut performance scheduled for Wednesday April 22, 2009 at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. The host community for this year’s show is Pikangikum First Nation in Northwestern Ontario.
As Indigenous people it’s our own Capacity Deficit that keeps Canadians from sharing
September 2, 2008 - 8:30pm | by brianbeatonWe Are Ripping Ourselves Off (And It Has to Stop)
By Charles Wagamese
There is a reason your property is being hauled away for free neechi. Why your home reserve is the most polluted land anywhere. And that reason according to the non native governments is in your Turtle Island mirrored reflection.
That reason sharing can’t take place: we have a capacity deficit you and me.
Continuing the legacy of building provincial school systems and schools on the backs of First Nations
September 2, 2008 - 6:54am | by brianbeatonThe school system that harmed natives must heal them
Les Brost, For The Calgary Herald - September 01, 2008
June 11, 2008 was an important day in Canadian history. That's when Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood in the House of Commons and delivered an apology to Canada's aboriginal people. Harper addressed the serial abuse committed decades ago in the residential schools operating under Canadian government auspices.
World Health Organization report "Closing the gap in a generation" supports First Nations position
August 31, 2008 - 8:26am | by brianbeatonAFN press release (see link to WHO report below)
NWT and Nunavut to benefit from $36M investment in satellite bandwidth by Infrastructure Canada
August 30, 2008 - 9:38pm | by brianbeatonInfrastructure Canada press release ...
Northerners to benefit from better internet
August 29, 2008
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories - Fifty-six remote communities across Northwest Territories and Nunavut will soon benefit from enhanced broadband access, which will improve community sustainability in Canada’s North.
Ontario minister of natural resources walks out on chiefs during Union of Ontario Indians meeting
August 30, 2008 - 3:38pm | by brianbeatonOntario minister walks out of meeting with Aboriginals
August 29, 2008 - by Murray Sinclair
The personal and the political clashed August 27 when Ontario’s natural resources minister walked out of a meeting with aboriginals in the province’s north.
Nishnawbe Aski Police Services loses their police chief to cancer
August 29, 2008 - 9:25pm | by brianbeatonAboriginal police chief Trivett dies
By: John Slykhuis, Staff Writer - August 29, 2008
A funeral service will be held Saturday on Georgina Island for Paul Russell Trivett, the chief of police of the largest aboriginal police service in Canada and second largest in North America.
Mr. Trivett, 52, died Tuesday at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket after battling cancer.
NADF and KORI partnering to offer a videoconferencing series on First Nation Business Basics
August 28, 2008 - 3:41pm | by AnonymousNADF will be hosting a series of business workshops via videoconference starting next week.
Front-line workers will be introducing themselves and sharing a brief presentation about NADF programs and various topics.
