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Click here for a copy of the 8 page Conference Registration and Information package (PDF, 380k)

Please click here for further information regarding the Fast/Peaceful Protest of the Band Operated Funding Formula.  (PDF document)

From the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada (FNCFCS) web site ...

SPEAKING NOTES FOR ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS NATIONAL CHIEF PHIL FONTAINE
PROSPECTORS AND DEVELOPERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
Toronto, Ontario
October 12, 2007

• (Traditional Greeting)

• I would like to thank the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada for your kind invitation to speak here today. In particular, I want to thank Don Bubar, the Chair of the Aboriginal Affairs Committee for his vision and efforts in bringing our communities together.

From AFN web site at http://afn.ca/article.asp?id=3259 (see the call for resolutions) 

Assembly of First Nations
SPECIAL CHIEFS ASSEMBLY
December 11 to 13, 2007 • Ottawa, Ontario

December 10, 2007:
Pre-registration will be at the Westin Ottawa
Hotel, 11 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario from
6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

GATINEAU, QC (October 3, 2007) - The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, and the Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief (Yukon), Rick O'Brien, today announced a simplified process for First Nation communities to access funding to improve infrastructure on reserves.

AFN press release ...

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Restates and Reaffirms First Nations Full Support for Human Rights

OTTAWA, Oct. 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine said today that First Nations support human rights protection for First Nations and also support the repeal of section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA).

VOTE FOR MMP press release ...

Another unbalanced legislature demonstrates need for electoral reform

TORONTO – October 11, 2007:  Yesterday's Ontario election once again produced results mismatched with voter preferences, and a phoney-majority government facing a weaker opposition than Ontarians voted for.

Chiefs of Ontario (COO) press release ... 

Ontario Regional Chief calls on the federal government to work with First Nations to resolve education crisis

Released : Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:50 PM