Community News

Shibogama Education Support Services Program searching for 2 workers for First Nation students

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

On behalf of the First Nations of Kingfisher Lake, Wunnumin Lake, Wapekeka and Kasabonika Lake, Shibogama Education invites applications for the following positions:

Report - The Funding Requirement for First Nations Schools in Canada (May 2009)

Click on the following document to download a PDF copy

The Funding Requirement for First Nations Schools in Canada (May 2009)  

AFN press release 

Virtual Assistant business wins Aboriginal Business Plan Competition at Vision Quest gathering

Press release 

Canadian Virtual Assistant Chosen for Business Award

A Winnipeg-based virtual assistant receives acclamation from the Aboriginal community for business creativity and entrepreneurship.

Health Canada produces report telling Canadians that most are satisfied with health services

Health Canada press release  

Greater Life Expectancy, Reduced Smoking Rates Among Highlights of Healthy Canadians Report

May 21, 2009

Highlights from Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2008

OTTAWA - Healthy Canadians - A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2008 shows that most Canadians remain satisfied overall with health-care services.

"With Respect, Canada’s North" - report on working with the people in Canada's north

With Respect, Canada’s North

Sixth Report of the Standing Senate Committee
on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
May 2009

Click here for a copy of the report

7 year old First Nation child forced to have hair cut by school staff person in Thunder Bay

From CBC.ca

Thunder Bay mom wants answers after teacher's aide chops off son's hair

May 21, 2009

A Thunder Bay woman is demanding an explanation after a teacher's aide at her son's school cut his long hair — an action her lawyer says is clearly assault while the Crown insists there are no grounds for charges.

CBC News is not naming the family to protect the child's identity.

KO Telemedicine and Ontario Telemedicine Network signing Partnering Agreement - May 29

Making it Work...

Celebrating Partnerships

Keewaytinook Okimakanak and the Ontario Telemedicine Network

are hosting a Signing Ceremony
to celebrate the development of a formal

Partnering Agreement

between

First Nation fire deaths while locked in police facilities leads to recommendations for change

NAN Press Release 

NAN pleased with jury recommendations in Wesley / Goodwin inquest

     THUNDER BAY, ON, May 21 /CNW/ - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler is pleased with jury recommendations that call for police services in First Nation communities to be equivalent to those in non-First Nation communities delivered at the inquest into a fatal fire that claimed the lives of Jamie Goodwin and Ricardo Wesley at a police detachment in Kashechewan First Nation on January 8, 2006.

Follow the news on the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Issues - April 21 to May 2

The Seventh Session of the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Issues
is being held at United Nations Headquarters in New York
from 21 April to 2 May 2008

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/session_seventh.html

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