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Ending Poverty in Ontario:
Building Capacity and Organizing for Change
A Workshop for Engaging Low Income People

Spring 2008

This manual has been developed by Campaign 2000 and Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) to assist facilitators to hold community-based workshops with low income people and other community members active in ending poverty. The workshop is designed to encourage discussion about what is needed to end poverty in Ontario, and to identify actions that can be taken within your community.

Click on the link below to download a copy of MNDM's updated June 2008 Quick Reference to Funding Sources for Canada-Wide and Ontario-Based Organizations booklet (Word document, 778K).  

http://knet.ca/documents/MNDM-Funding-Sources-June2008 .doc

First Nations once again are forced to take the protection of their treaty and traditional rights to court as the media and others fight to remove the recognition of these rights ...

From Halifax's Chronicle Herald

Kashechewan First Nation Chief and Council press release

June 25, 2008

Today, the Chief and Council of Kashechewan First Nation has served noticed to Nishnawbe Aski Police Service advising them that Kashechewan First Nation is pulling out of the current policing agreement. The Leadership has notified Nishnawbe Aski Police Service that it has given a 90 day grace period for the community to look at other options for policing.

Anishinabek Nation press release 

Anishinabek outlaw term 'aboriginal'

    WHITEFISH RIVER FIRST NATION, ON,June 25 /CNW/ - Chiefs of the 42 member communities of the Anishinabek Nation have launched a campaign to eliminate the inappropriate use of the term "aboriginal".

    During the annual Grand Council Assembly in this Manitoulin Island community, Chiefs endorsed a resolution that characterized the word as "another means of assimilation through the displacement of our First Nation-specific inherent and treaty rights."

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY BEING HELD IN FREDERICTON

June 26th to the 28th

Theme: Citizens, Groups, Communities and Information and Communication Technologies

Landmark Provincial Aging at Home Strategy Launches in North East LHIN
Posted by admin on 2008/6/23 15:12:40 (10 reads)
Press Release

McGuinty Government Improves Access to Community-Based Health Care Services

June 20, 2008

Standing in front of a new Dodge Caravan that will provide area seniors with rides to appointments, Rick Bartolucci, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, MPP Sudbury, today announced a series of local Aging at Home initiatives which are receiving just over $4 million this year.

Press release 

Students call for action on National Aboriginal Day - Ending Poverty and Increasing Access to Higher Education Must be National Priorities

OTTAWA, June 21 - Canada's college and university students are marking National Aboriginal Day by renewing the call for improved living conditions for Aboriginal peoples and greater federal funding for Aboriginal students to attend post-secondary institutions.