Community News

Fort Severn First Nation, KORI and LU team up to examines requirements for polar bear survival

LU press release ... 

First Nations Input Key to Polar Bear Survival Strategies in Canada

November 4, 2008 – Thunder Bay, ON)

Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards being broadcast on APTN

APTN press release ... 

Update and submissions to the Modernizing Ontario's Mining Act consultation process

Mining Watch press release ... 

Modernizing Mining in Ontario

Friday October 31, 2008

CAP organization using residential school survivors for political gain to attack AFN again

See CBC story on Grand Chief Phil Fontaine's position ...

From National Post

Patrick Brazeau: Truth and Reconciliation Commission belongs to victims, not the AFN

October 30, 2008 - Patrick Brazeau

Whitefeather Forest Training Initiative searching for an Executive Director

Employment Opportunity    

Whitefeather Forest Training Initiative 

Executive Director 

Competition #08-ED-01

Introducing Red Works Studio – photography by Indigenous People for Indigenous People

Red Works Studio is a newly formed photography company owned and operated by Adrienne Fox-Keesic and Nadya Kwandibens.

Red Works seeks to empower contemporary Indigenous lifestyles and cultures through photographic essays, features and portraits.

It's a dream come true for both of us as photographers and we invite all of you to visit our website: www.redworks.ca

A Disastrous Gap – How High Schools Have Failed Canada’s Aboriginal Students - report

From Regina Leader Post

First Nations education not keeping pace with other Canadians: Report

October 28, 2008

TORONTO - Aboriginal teens have "disastrous" high school completion rates, leading to a "yawning gap" in education between aboriginal and non-aboriginals in Canada, a report released Tuesday says.

Another Aboriginal group representing all off-reserve forms to take dollars from First Nation funding

From SooNews.ca  

OCAP is Formed

October 27, 2008

A new Aboriginal rights based political force was created in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario this weekend called The Ontario Coalition of Aboriginal People (OCAP) and its voice is OCAP President Brad Maggrah.

The Ontario Coalition of Aboriginal People (OCAP) held its founding Assembly at Sault Ste. Marie Ontario this weekend.