Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission December newsletter
December 28, 2007 - 7:36am | by brianbeaton33 First Nations to participate in the new property tax provisions of FSMA starting January 2008
December 27, 2007 - 3:07pm | by brianbeatonINAC press release ...
Canada's new National Anti-Drug Strategy accepting proposals for community-based projects
December 27, 2007 - 2:50pm | by brianbeatonGovernment press release
Government of Canada Announces Funding for Community Initiatives Working to Reduce Illicit Drug Use
OTTAWA, December 21, 2007 – The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, today announced more than $7 million for communities across Canada to tackle the increasing challenge of drug use among our young people. Funding is available through the Drug Strategy Community Initiatives Fund for 2008/2009 initiatives, and the deadline for proposals is February 29, 2008.
Mining is genocide for Indigenous Peoples - Western Mining Action Network Conference
December 26, 2007 - 10:12am | by brianbeatonFrom CENSORED and under-reported news blog ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
More about the Lakota Nation withdrawal from their treaty with the United States
December 26, 2007 - 10:04am | by brianbeatonFrom http://www.lakotafreedom.com/
FREEDOM!
Today is a historic day and our forefathers speak through us. Our Forefathers made the treaties in good faith with the sacred Canupa and with the knowledge of the Great Spirit, They never honored the treaties, that is the reason we are here today...Garry Rowland, Wounded Knee
From WHY
"Uphold existing Aboriginal and treaty rights" - Senate committee tells Harper government
December 23, 2007 - 8:52am | by brianbeatonFrom the Final Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
39th Parliament – 2nd Session
December 2007
Summary of Recommendations
Recommendation 1
Programs and support for urban Aboriginals by government, nothing new for First Nations
December 23, 2007 - 8:44am | by brianbeatonMind shift or policy change? Government's new focus on off-reserve economic development nothing new for natives
KATHERINE WALKER - December 20, 2007
There is a "complete native mind shift" about to take place in Canada. At least that's how Maclean's magazine put it in a Sept. 3, 2007, article titled An aboriginal 'glasnost'. Other media have followed suit and run stories recently on this new trend.
Ontario "hits the jackpot" with resource rich remote and rural First Nations
December 22, 2007 - 9:33am | by brianbeatonBryant has a long to-do list - Aboriginal affairs minister eyes progress on Caledonia standoff, economic opportunities
Dec 22, 2007 - Robert Benzie - Queen's Park Bureau Chief
Minutes after announcing at Queen's Park that Ipperwash Provincial Park would be turned over to natives who had their nearby land confiscated during World War II, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant hopped in a small plane and flew there.
Bryant, 41, is a man in a hurry.
Ontario Environment Commissioner being lobbied to support mining groups interests in First Nation lands
December 22, 2007 - 7:29am | by brianbeatonMining Association press release ...
Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative of FNIHB requesting proposals for off-reserve projects
December 22, 2007 - 7:27am | by brianbeatonRequest for applications for the Métis, Off-reserve Aboriginal and Urban Inuit Prevention and Promotion Program
Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative
