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Media Advisory

Conserve the Light Gathering - a First Nations and Métis energy efficiency conference

(July 24, 2009) As part of the ongoing Energy Efficiency & Conservation Measures for Aboriginal Communities (EEMAC) program, Charles Fox Consulting Inc. and the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) will convene a Gathering of Ontario First Nations and Métis Elders and Leadership and community members from September 3, 2009 to September 4, 2009 in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Stats Can bulletin

From CTV.CA  

Traditional healers might help fight swine flu

Aug. 9 2009 - The Canadian Press - Shannon Montgomery

For a sore throat, the roots of a type of plant that grows in the water.

For a fever, the gum and needles of a spruce tree, boiled together and swallowed first thing in the morning.

 Press Release

Order of Canada Mentorship Program looking for 25 young people

August 11, 2009

OTTAWA—Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, would like to invite dynamic youth to apply to the Order of Canada Mentorship Program, now in its second year.

The Effect of Increasing Aboriginal Educational Attainment on the Labour Force, Output and the Fiscal Balance

Prepared for the Educational Branch of Indian and North Affairs Canada | By the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - May 2009

From the Executive Summary

From http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/indigenous/  

International Day of the 
World's Indigenous People

ABORIGINAL HEALING AND WELLNESS STRATEGY
Phase lll - LONGITUDINAL STUDY - Final Report
Joint Management Committee Approved, March 25, 2009

Click here to download a copy of the 165 page report

COO press release

First Nation Leadership Across Ontario Support Nishnawbe Aski Nation in Protecting Their Homelands

August 6, 2009

Toronto, ON – Angus Toulouse, Ontario Regional Chief joined Stan Beardy, Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) at a Rally at Queen’s Park today to condemn the Government of Ontario’s proposed legislation on land-use planning in the Far North, Bill 191: the Far North Act.

AFN press release