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Rallys and Protests over KI-6 Continue -- Ontario Impact Internationally Uncertain     

09 April 2008 

"These conflicts could have been avoided, if the McGuinty government had listened to Aboriginal people and removed these lands from mining."

NAHO and Health Canada press release ... 

From Globe and Mail

Tory approach to natives could mean protests, Martin says

BILL CURRY - April 8, 2008

OTTAWA — The Conservative government's “too bad, so sad” approach to Canadian aboriginals will be to blame if natives increasingly turn to confrontation and protest, former prime minister Paul Martin warned yesterday.

Sweetgrass First Nations Language Council Inc.
in partnership with Department of Canadian Heritage

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Backgrounder

ONTARIO ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES INITIATIVE (ALI) 2008 - 2009

Background

This ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES INITIATIVE program has been in place since 1998.
The Sweetgrass First Nations Language Council Inc. has been designated to deliver the ALI program as the Ontario Regional Delivery for the same time period.

From the Globe and Mail

Natives' frustration with Ottawa threatens to boil over

BILL CURRY - April 7, 2008

OTTAWA -- Smiling photo ops with aboriginals across the country have been a regular occurrence throughout the first two years of the Harper government.

Land claims have been signed, a residential-schools deal has been reached and new water-treatment facilities have been unveiled with much federal fanfare.

The world premier of Older Than America (www.olderthanamerica.com) shown

at the 2008 South by Southwest Fim Festival (http://2008.sxsw.com/film)

Director: Georgina Lightning

Cast: Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning, Wes Studi, Steve Yoakum, Chris Mulkey, Glen Gould, Dennis Banks, Gloria Eshkibok

Runtime: 102 minutes

From the Winnipeg Sun

Aboriginals to be hit hard by climate change: UN report

By Canadian Press - April 3, 2008

TORONTO -- Aboriginal communities in Canada and around the world will be among the most gravely affected by the effects of climate change, and more attention should be paid to changes in their traditional ways of life to help gauge the onset of global warming, United Nations researchers said yesterday.

The successful inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference was held in Auckland, New Zealand (March 26 - 28, 2008).

From http://witbc.org/witbn.htm

Indigenous TV Broadcasters to Form Global Network

A global network of indigenous television broadcasters will be a major outcome of the inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference hosted by Māori Television at the end of March.

Attention to all Indigenous Peoples: Inuit, Metis, & First Nations!!

A message from Alice Olsen Williams, Quilter, Anishinaape of the Curve Lake First Nation in Ontario