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From TBSource ... 

Native business awards recognizes extraordinary efforts
10/24/2007

The outstanding achievements of Aboriginal entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations were recognized at a gala dinner Wednesday at the Valhalla Inn.

More that 400 people attended the 17th annual Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund Business Awards to hear the winners announced.

COO News ... 

Ontario First Nations Policy Forum

October 23, 2007

Dear Leadership,

It is with great pleasure that I invite all Chiefs, Councillors, Education, Justice and Social Services employees to attend and provide their input at the Policy Forum.

The Chiefs of Ontario office is planning a Policy Forum to be held December 4-6, 2007 in Toronto at the Marriott Hotel Yorkville located at 90 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario.

From the Toronto Star ...

UN housing envoy scolds Canadians -`Radical shift in policy' needed to tackle crisis, official warns after visit

Oct 23, 2007 - Bruce Campion-Smith

OTTAWA–An ambitious national housing program and a strategy to combat poverty is urgently needed to tackle the disaster-like conditions of homelessness and inadequate housing found across the country, a United Nations envoy says.

From Reuters Canada ...

Canadian natives still face prison discrimination
Oct 23, 2007 - Jonathan Spicer

TORONTO (Reuters) - Officials have largely ignored the findings of a hard-hitting report into the treatment of aboriginals in Canadian jails, and conditions have worsened in some areas, a federal watchdog says.

UN General Assembly press release

From COO website ...

The Chiefs of Ontario is offering the following Training to Community Support Services Workers: Healing Using Traditional Medicine

October 22, 2007

A recent report produced by the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute (KORI) found that online users in remote and rural First Nations are frustrated by slow internet access speeds to view videos and web sites.

From the Canadian Press ...

NDP says Ontario discriminating against aboriginal charity casino
Chinta Puxley, October 22nd, 2007

TORONTO - The province is discriminating against a northern aboriginal charitable casino by not allowing it to offer card tables, NDP Leader Howard Hampton said Monday as he called on the Ontario government to restart negotiations aimed at sharing gambling revenues with aboriginal communities.

From CNEWS ...

Grieving community seeks closure
By THANE BURNETT - The Toronto Sun    

SUMMER BEAVER, Ont. -- Johnny Yellowhead walks deep into the north woods, to once again find one of Canada's most isolated graveyards.

What he wants -- what many in his nearby First Nation village of Summer Beaver (Nibinamik), Ont., still pray for these four years later -- is a road to their dead.

At this year's Northern Ontario Business Awards 2007 celebration held this past week in Timmins, Five Nations Energy Inc was selected as the First Nations Busincess Award of Excellent

From Northern Business ...

Five Nations Energy Inc.
BY IAN ROSS

Mike Metatawabin admits he smirked when the discussion first came up about creating a Native-owned not-for-profit power transmission company.