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From the Sask Star Phoenix 

Communication most effective tool in police kit

Doug Cuthand, Special to The StarPhoenix
Published: Friday, September 05, 2008

This year has been particularly difficult for Saskatchewan's aboriginal people and police services. There have been eight individuals shot this year by police, with five fatalities and three shootings resulting in serious injuries.

 Statistics Canada - Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada

Click here for the "Back to school — September 2008" Issue availalbe online

Ontario government press release - September 4, 2008

McGuinty Government Invests In Algoma University, More Opportunity For North

Sault Ste. Marie has a new university.

Algoma University, formerly known as Algoma College, celebrates a new academic year as an independent, degree-granting institution. The government is investing $2.5 million to help the university make the switch.

From CBC.ca

New report suggests gap growing between rich and poor in Atlantic region

Canadian Press: September 4, 2008

HALIFAX - A new study on household debt, financial security and the wealth gap in Atlantic Canada suggests things have grown worse for the region's poor over the past decade.

Next week, desperate due to accelerating sea level rise, a group of small islands' leaders plan to take the unprecedented step of putting a resolution before the United Nations calling upon the Security Council itself to address climate change. Stand with these threatened people:

A recent news release from the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (see below) highlights some of the changes that First Nations can expect "early in 2009" when a new status card is required. For more information about INAC's plans for producing these new "secure" status cards visit the INAC web site at http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/pub/ywtk/ifk-eng.asp.

From http://www.kahnawake.com/news/pr/pr08282008a.pdf

From HASTAC Initiative web site

Press Release ...

Pikangikum First Nation in Northwestern Ontario Selected as Tracee Smith Launches Outside Looking In Second Debut

Toronto, September 3, 2008: Outside Looking In proudly presents their second annual debut performance scheduled for Wednesday April 22, 2009 at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. The host community for this year’s show is Pikangikum First Nation in Northwestern Ontario.

We Are Ripping Ourselves Off (And It Has to Stop)

By Charles Wagamese

There is a reason your property is being hauled away for free neechi. Why your home reserve is the most polluted land anywhere. And that reason according to the non native governments is in your Turtle Island mirrored reflection.

That reason sharing can’t take place: we have a capacity deficit you and me.

From the Calgary Herald

The school system that harmed natives must heal them

Les Brost, For The Calgary Herald - September 01, 2008

June 11, 2008 was an important day in Canadian history. That's when Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood in the House of Commons and delivered an apology to Canada's aboriginal people. Harper addressed the serial abuse committed decades ago in the residential schools operating under Canadian government auspices.