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Keewaytinook Okimakanak and our partners are hosting two information sessions to present the results of the KO survey about the online services being provided by KO along with the use of ICTs in remote First Nations that was conducted during the month of November, 2011. Every person with an @knet.ca email address was invited to participate in the online survey.

Everyone is very welcome to join us on Friday afternoon (April 20) at:

What type of society and values do we want to pass onto our children and grandchildren? How are all these cuts shaping our society and our values? Somehow everyone must consider what kind of values we want in our homes, in our community and across our country. It is so important that young people understand that the values in society are shaped by political decisions and that in these times we have to work harder to stay true to our own values concerning what is right and what we are hoping to pass along to our children.

Press Release

Feds Cut NCFNG Nation Rebuilding Services

Ottawa, April 16, 2012 – Federal funding for the National Centre for First Nations Governance (NCFNG) has been cut by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. The Centre will no longer offer its popular nation rebuilding services and will close it doors by March 31, 2013.

Notice from Government of Canada

Further to the 2012 Budget, tabled on March 29, 2012, this is to advise you of a decision that affects the business relationship between Public Works and Government Services Canada Publishing and Depository Services Program, and your organization.

from Huffingtonpost.ca

Cat Lake: Children On First Nations Reserve Send Heartbreaking Letter To Drug-Addicted Parents

Posted: 04/15/2012

CAT LAKE, Ont. - Item number nine in the letter to members of the Cat Lake reserve from the children in Grade Six is as blunt as it is painful.

from CalgaryHerald.com

Why First Nations cling to their reserves

BY RICHARD WAGAMESE - APRIL 15, 2012

Certain questions come back time after time in mainstream Canada's hunt for understanding of First Nations issues. One of the most important focuses on the nature of reserve communities. If the situations on Canada's First Nations reserves are so horrible, why don't the people just leave?

Press Release

Native Women’s Association of Canada Responds to Cuts to Health Projects

From CBC.ca

Lure of mining leaves First Nations struggling - Mining money is often spent on financing prescription drug addictions

The Canadian Press - Apr 13, 2012

Isolation often takes the blame as the source of many problems on remote reserves. But North Caribou Lake Chief Pierre Morriseau has decidedly mixed feelings about that.

From the Globe and Mail

Hearings reopen old wounds for residential school survivor

DIRK MEISSNER - VICTORIA— The Canadian Press - Apr. 13, 2012

From CBC.ca

18 more First Nations sign land control deal

By Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC News Posted: Apr 13, 2012

Eighteen First Nations communities today signed the official paperwork that allows them to opt out of land-related rules under the Indian Act, with the agreement giving them more control over their own resources.