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Landmark accord on the Education of Indigenous Peoples in Canada to be Signed at Congress 2010

From the NNEC web site

LETTER TO THE CHIEFS OF THE SIOUX LOOKOUT AREA FIRST NATIONS

Friday May 14, 2010

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) visited Wahsa Distance Education Centre on April 12 to 16, 2010 and gathered data for the purposes of undertaking in-depth review of the alternative secondary education programming for Wahsa.

From The Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples website  

OTTAWA, Wednesday, May 12, 2010

NAN press release 

NAN Continues to urge Ontario Government to Implement a Community Forestry Tenure System

May 27, 2010

THUNDER BAY, ON: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Stan Beardy says the Ontario government needs to implement a community forestry tenure system. The position of having a community forestry tenure system has been consistently provided since NAN’s initial participation in the Northern Ontario Sustainable Communities Partnership committee and later endorsed through a NAN Chief’s resolution in 2007.

Press release 

Government has human rights obligation to end homelessness argues historic Charter challenge

Toronto, May 26 - Formerly and currently homeless individuals and housing advocates today launched a landmark legal challenge, asking the Superior Court of Ontario for a declaration that Canada and Ontario have violated their rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by creating and maintaining conditions that lead to and sustain homelessness and inadequate housing.

From http://doa.wcit2010.org/amsterdam_declaration.pdf  

House of Commons Debate on Bill C-3, An Act to promote gender equity in Indian registration

Legislative Summary of this legislation is available at
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/LegislativeSummaries/40/3/c3-e.pdf

From House of Commons Hansard, May 25, 2010 

Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act 

AFN press release ... 

AFN National Chief Calls for Real Action on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations: Need Action to Address the "Capacity Gap as well as the Regulatory Gap"

OTTAWA, May 27 /CNW Telbec/ - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo stated today that legislation introduced in Parliament on First Nations drinking water - Bill S-11- will not in its current form meet the stated objective of ensuring First Nations have access to safe drinking water.

On May 26, Eric Grant, INAC's First Nations Student Success Program Manager and Susan Stewart, INAC's FNSSP Ontario Region Program Officer flew to Cat Lake First Nation to visit the community, meet with the school students and staff and meet with the regional FNSSP project team. Click here to learn more about the program from the INAC site