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BDC press release ...

Over 200 Aboriginal Student Entrepreneurs from Across the Country Get Ready to Showcase their Best Projects in Regina for the 2008 E-Spirit Business Plan Competition

BDC's E-Spirit promotes entrepreneurship to Aboriginal youth in Canada

2008 May Report of the Auditor General of Canada

Chapter 4—First Nations Child and Family Services Program—Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Some highlights from the report ...

Federal government press release ...

Open Letter - UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Canada Needs to Implement This New Human Rights Instrument

May 1, 2008
Open Letter

On September 13, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by an overwhelming vote of 144-4. The UN Secretary-General, other prominent international leaders, and human rights experts hailed this historic event as a victory for the human rights of the world’s most disadvantaged and victimized peoples.

Press Release ...

Bridging the cultural gap through dance, music and film - Show brings First Nations youth from isolated reserve to share experiences

Toronto (ONTARIO) May 6th, 2008 – Bridging the cultural gap through dance, music and film Show brings First Nations youth from isolated reserve to share experiences

CAPACITY DEVELOPER

Internal/External Employment Posting

The Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) is currently accepting applications for the position of Capacity Developer. This position is to ensure the Capacity Development Project is implemented, meets ONWA standards and guidelines, liaison with ONWA membership and to facilitate the capacity development sessions across the province.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As the following three stories show, getting to the truth about residential schools is going to be a long and difficult road for all Canadians to take ...

From the Globe and Mail

Residential school payouts spark pain and death

UNNATI GANDHI - May 1, 2008

From Rabble.ca 

Canada's Tibet(s) 

by Martin Lukacs - May 2, 2008

In this small, impoverished northern village, people eke out a miserable existence. One of the world's most powerful countries occupies their land, plunders their resources, interferes with their governance and seems intent on assimilating them into wider society.