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Speech-language pathologists test videoconferencing for speech and hearing assessments

Rick Garrick - April, 2008

Three speech-language pathologists have been looking into the use of videoconferencing to test children for speech and hearing problems in remote northern Ontario First Nation communities.

From the Prince George Citizen 

Women begin 'wave fast' to protest jailing natives in mining fight

By Sue Bailey, THE CANADIAN PRESS - April 1, 2008

OTTAWA - A group of native women in northern Ontario was to stop eating for 24 hours in hopes of launching a "wave fast" across Canada to support a great grandmother jailed in a mining dispute.

Hopefully these types of micro-management clauses are being added to all the contracts being issued by the military and every federal government department. This move will probably keep the acountants and the lawyers happy for years to come ...

INAC press release ... 

From Macleans.ca

First Nation’s Technical Institute avoids closure — for one year

By Macleans.ca | April 1st, 2008

Feds can't shirk responsibility for aboriginal education programs: minister

The following three press releases highlight how some Nishnawbe Aski Nation First Nations are working with forestry and mining companies to develop resources on their traditional lands. The extraction of these resources must be carefully and respectfully done with the First Nation leadership to protect the lands and the waterways for their future generations.

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First Nation and Forestry Company Find Success Where Least Expected

Click on the above link to listen to Chief Donnie Morris of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) describe what is happening to him, his council and community members as a result of his struggle to protect their traditional lands.

Like the communities in Arctic described in the following article, remote and rural First Nations across Canada face exactly the same paternalistic and colonial attitudes ...

From the Globe and Mail

In the Arctic, you can't go back to the future

MARY SIMON - March 26, 2008

Stephen Harper visited Yellowknife this month for the Arctic Winter Games, his fifth trip to the North since becoming Prime Minister in 2006.

The following two articles highlight the importance of the land for the people of KI ...

From the Thunder Bay Source

Hampton visits, NAN Chief calls for help from UN

Web Posted: 3/28/2008 6:21:58 PM 

NDP leader Howard Hampton was in the city Friday visiting Chief Donny Morris and the other Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug band members in an effort to urge the Ontario government to provide some assistance.

Key recommendations affecting First Nations were left out of the Rosehart Report as the story below indicates. Along with the "Duty to Consult" and "Resource Revenue Sharing", there were no recommendations concerning improving telecommunication services and electrical grid development, although these items were also "mentioned" in the report.

From the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal

Sandy Lake First Nation election results from voting on March 28 

Chief:               Adam Fiddler

Deputy Chief:  Bart Meekis

Councillors:

Head Councillor: Robert Kakegamic