Community News

KO-KNET and Videocom hosting two online workshops to report the findings of ICT use in remote First Nations

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:

Public Access to the Internet cut leaving nearly half of Canadians with less than $30k income with no access

 

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.

 

 

National Centre for First Nations Governance latest organization paying federal government cuts

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.

All federal government publications being transitioned to exclusively electronic publications

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.

Children On Cat Lake First Nation Send Important Message To Drug-Addicted Parents

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.

"Colonialism is the dominant force in Canada" explains why First Nations protect their lands

 

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?

Native Women’s Association of Canada health programs cut by Health Canada

Press Release

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

First Nation leaders share different views of mining and resource development on traditional lifestyles

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.

Residential School survivors sharing their stories, experiences, feelings and healing journeys

From the Globe and Mail

Hearings reopen old wounds for residential school survivor

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

60 First Nations opt out of 34 land-related sections of the Indian Act signing framework agreement

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.