Community News

Lac Seul First Nation hosting "ABCs of Entrepreneurship" Workshop with Wab Kinew - Thursday, Feb 7

Plans are being made to webstream the workshop on KNET ... watch http://meeting.knet.ca for the workshop

Click here for a copy of the poster

Debate about broadband connections being a Public Utility like hydro, phones, water, roads

From Business.time.com

Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility?

By - Jan. 09, 2013 Crawford, SusanCourtesy of Yale University Press

Courts rule that TRC must get all documents about Indian residential schools from Ottawa

From the Globe and Mail

Ontario Superior Court

Ottawa ordered to find and release millions of Indian residential school records

GLORIA GALLOWAY - Jan. 30 2013

People in Toronto and other cities get more government funding than people in First Nations

From OLTHUIS, KLEER, TOWNSHEND, L.L.P., 

Taking a second look at those Attawapiskat numbers

Posted on January 18, 2013

by: Lorraine Land, Lawyer at Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend, L.L.P., Toronto

Understanding the importance of the Treaties to First Nations and all Canadians

From Toronto Star

Idle No More movement brings Canadian history into focus

Treaties are a permanent reminder that indigenous people were not conquered, but were brought into the agreement as partners.

INM and Chief Spence attacked by Conservative senator and MP at gathering in urban centre

From Toronto Star

Conservative MP and senator belittle Chief Theresa Spence, Idle No More movement

By: Tonda MacCharles Ottawa Bureau and Nevil Hunt, Published on Wed Jan 30 2013

Two members of Stephen Harper's Conservative caucus - an elected MP and a senator - publicly disparaged the Idle No More movement and Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence at a fundraising dinner for a provincial candidate Tuesday.