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The Keewaytinook Okimakanak KNET team hosted a welcoming barbeque on Tuesday evening at the home of Jesse and Angie Fiddler for a team of INAC officials who arrived in Sioux Lookout.

Meetings are planned for Wednesday and Thursday to provide the visitors from Ottawa and Toronto with a overview of the programs and services that are being supported in the remote First Nations across northern Ontario.

The proposed schedule (as much as possible will be videoconferenced and webcast):

Tuesday, April 27 - barbeque and visiting at the Fiddler's

On Monday, April 26, over 30 different representatives from universities across Northern Ontario and various First Nation and community organizations met to discuss a strategy for developing a research project to examine Northern Communities Transitioning to Resilience.

The team from Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute and KNET joined the session hosted by Algoma University in Sault Ste Marie by videoconferencing from Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay.

The Keewaytinook Okimakanak Kuhkenah Network team is working with other First Nation programs and teams to access training and establish a standard of practice that addresses all the network security, privacy and frameworks for service delivery that is required to support e-health applications in Ontario.

On Monday, April 26, Kristy Tomkinson defended her Masters Thesis before thesis committee and her peers. She also invited others to join her by videoconference.

Champions of Change: Exploring the Outcomes of the Youth ICT Employment and Training Program in Ontario First Nations Communities

A thesis document completed by: 

Kristy Tomkinson
Capacity Development & Rural Extension program at the University of Guelph
Advisor: Jim Mahone
Chair: Helen Hambly-Odame
Committee Member: Ricardo Ramirez

From Toronto Sun 

Ontario's first diamonds go on sale

By QMI Agency - April 26, 2010

The first diamonds from an Ontario mine become available for sale, just as demand resurfaces after the global recession.
Play VideoOntario’s first diamonds went on sale on Monday, with industry insiders predicting strong demand for the stones as the industry begins to pick up after the recession.

Press release

AFN press release 

from http://www.earthday.org/earthday2010

Research findings from the Sisters In Spirit initiative

Sisters In Spirit 2010 Research Findings

Aboriginal women and girls are strong and beautiful. They are our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, aunties, and grandmothers

Acknowledgments

From Winnipeg Sun

MB. to recognize aboriginal languages

By PAUL TURENNE - April 20, 2010

Manitoba is set to become the first province in Canada to officially recognize its aboriginal languages in law.