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Saskatchewan press release ...

Premier Announces 100 per cent High Speed Internet Coverage for Saskatchewan - $129 Million Infrastructure Plan Will Also Bring Cell Coverage Up To 98 Per Cent

 November 26, 2008

Premier Brad Wall said Saskatchewan will have 100 per cent high speed Internet coverage within three years as the result of a major investment announced today.

From the Native Women's Association of Canada ...

Voices of Our Sisters In Spirit: A Research and Policy Report to Families and Communities

President’s Acknowledgements

From the Globe and Mail

Aboriginal students protest shoddy school

The Canadian Press - November 27, 2008

Toronto -- Students from a Northern Ontario aboriginal community relegated for years to a makeshift school rallied hundreds of their provincial peers in Toronto yesterday in a bid to gain a proper school.

Everyone is invited to register for the two upcoming online e-Panels that Digital Ontario is hosting as part of its research into the importance of broadband to the province's economy. Send an e-mail to digitalontario@ontario.ca to register for these events.

From INAC web site

New report from The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

From the Missoulian ...

Obama appoints Native officials to transition  team

By JODI RAVE

     As  President-elect Barack Obama appoints a new team of cabinet members and fills other key federal work posts, he's named six Native people to his transition team - half of them assigned to assist in Interior Department policy, budget  and personnel changes.

MEMORANDUM

DATE: November 18, 2008

TO: Aboriginal Team Ontario Leaders
       Ministry “Activator” Regional Advisors

FROM: Susan Kitchen, Executive Director, Coaches Association of Ontario
             Anita Comella, A/Director, Sport and Recreation Branch

From CBC.ca

Canada must probe cases of slain, missing aboriginal women: UN

November 24, 2008

The United Nations is calling on the Canadian government to investigate why hundreds of deaths and disappearances of aboriginal women remain unsolved.

It's asking Ottawa to report back in a year on the status of more than 500 cases that "have neither been fully investigated nor attracted priority attention, with the perpetrators remaining unpunished."

NAAF press release 

16th Annual National Aboriginal Achievement Awards announces its 2009 List of Outstanding Achievers

November 24, 2008 - TORONTO – Fourteen exceptional achievers, coming from diverse backgrounds, both culturally and geographically have been named recipients of the 2009 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, the highest honour the community bestows upon its own achievers.