First Nation schools and organizations are invited to contact Peter Andre Globensky in Thunder Bay at 683.0585 or by email at basa.tb@tbaytel.net to arrange a special event with Tomson Highway during his stay in Thunder Bay.

Project press release ... 

Tomson Highway brings unique talents to Thunder Bay - First-ever Artist-in-Residence at Negahneewin College & Lakehead University

29 September 2008 - Thunder Bay, Ontario

See below for CBC's article on the release of the government report and their figures ...

From CTV.ca

Afghanistan mission to cost $28B, group says

Oct. 8 2008

On the eve of a parliamentary report on the financial cost of the Afghanistan mission for Canada, an independent group has released their own answer on the subject: $28 billion.

From CBC.ca

Truth commission tied too closely to government: aboriginal groups - Leaders raise questions about new executive director

October 8, 2008

Aboriginal groups are concerned that a federal government bureaucrat who is not aboriginal has been chosen to be the new executive director of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

NOHFC Press Release

Expanded Preschool Program Will Promote Ojibway Culture - Province Helps First Nation Build New Early Childhood Development Centre

October 07, 2008 

More preschoolers at a Northwestern Ontario First Nation will be able to attend a daycare program that promotes Ojibway culture and language thanks to an investment by the province.

RED LAKE CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY CHURCH

Welcomes Everyone to the

THANKSGIVING CAMPMEETINGS

Oct. 9th to Oct. 12th, 2008

Guest Speakers:

Bro. Peter Munro
Toronto, On.                      

Bro. Randy Moskotaywanene
Sioux Lookout, On.

Special Guest Singers:

Bro. Samson Beardy,

From Canwest News Service 

Child poverty rate still 23% two decades later: report

October 07, 2008

Canada needs to do more to fix the child poverty rate because it has remained virtually unchanged in two decades, says an annual quality of life report card released Tuesday by the Community Foundations of Canada.

The non-governmental organization said the Vital Signs 2008 report shows more than one in five children (1.6 million or 23%) lived in poverty in 2006.

From CBC.ca

Conservatives pledge to reintroduce copyright reform

October 7, 2008 - By Peter Nowak CBC News

The Conservatives are promising to reintroduce controversial copyright-reform legislation if they are re-elected, according to the party's official platform released on Tuesday.

The Global Alliance for ICT and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID) recently approved the Northern Indigenous Community Satellite Network (NICSN) and our international partner's proposal to establish a Community of Expertise entitled "Indigenous Peoples’ Appropriating the Knowledge Society (IPAKS) Through Satellite Enabled Broadband Networking".

The objective of this Community of Expertise as outlined in the proposal is:

Keewaytinook Okimakanak and Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund have delivered four of the six workshops in the Business Development Series. Checkout the next two workshops at a video conference site in your community. Contact your community technician or martinakanakakeesic@knet.ca 877.737.5638 X 1266 to register.

AFN press release ...

AFN Praises Sharon McIvor on October 6th, First Nations Women's Day

OTTAWA, Oct. 6 - AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine and AFN Women's Council Chair, Kathleen McHugh are calling on women across Canada to celebrate First Nations Women's Day by making donations to support, "one of the longest standing and important human rights cases in Canadian history."