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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY BEING HELD IN FREDERICTON

June 26th to the 28th

Theme: Citizens, Groups, Communities and Information and Communication Technologies

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Algoma University

1520 Queen St. East, Sault Ste. Marie, ON Canada P6A 2G4

FIRST NATIONS SUMMER ICE HOCKEY TOURNAMENT

2008

IN

DRYDEN, ONATRIO

JULY 23, 24, AND 25TH, 2008

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12 FIRST NATION - COMMUNITY BASED TEAMS ONLY

2 YOUTH ATOMS HOCKEY EXHIBITION GAMES

Landmark Provincial Aging at Home Strategy Launches in North East LHIN
Posted by admin on 2008/6/23 15:12:40 (10 reads)
Press Release

McGuinty Government Improves Access to Community-Based Health Care Services

June 20, 2008

Standing in front of a new Dodge Caravan that will provide area seniors with rides to appointments, Rick Bartolucci, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, MPP Sudbury, today announced a series of local Aging at Home initiatives which are receiving just over $4 million this year.

Press release 

Students call for action on National Aboriginal Day - Ending Poverty and Increasing Access to Higher Education Must be National Priorities

OTTAWA, June 21 - Canada's college and university students are marking National Aboriginal Day by renewing the call for improved living conditions for Aboriginal peoples and greater federal funding for Aboriginal students to attend post-secondary institutions.

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Walk4Justice on Cross-Country Trek to Protest Missing and Murdered Women

June 19, 2008

VANCOUVER, June 19, 2008 - Walk4Justice has a full day, Sept 15, 2008, booked on Parliament Hill to present a petition and address the key issues surrounding marginalized, missing and murdered women and their families. Over three thousand women & children are deemed missing or murdered in the last 10 years, 80% of them are Aboriginal.

From the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Report of the Seventh Session

June 19, 2008

The initial visit by the regional coroner points to another house fire on a remote First Nation resulting in the loss of life is a concern that requires further investigation (report from CBC TBay radio news).

From the Toronto Star

Northern Ontario fire kills man, 3 toddlers

Jun 20, 2008 - THE CANADIAN PRESS

DEER LAKE, Ont.–There is no word yet on the cause of a fire that has claimed four lives in the northwestern Ontario community of Deer Lake.

From TBay Chronicle Journal

New technicians will help serve their communities

By Jim Kelly - Saturday, June 14, 2008

A group of young aboriginal men and women are expected to make a significant impact on health care in First Nations communities.

And others may soon be following in their footsteps.

The 11 are graduates of a radiological technician certificate program, allowing them to operate X-ray equipment.