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Election selection

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Youth anxious for universal vote Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Grand Chief Stan Beardy encouraged the Nishnawbe Aski Nation chiefs to make a decision on the universal vote issue by the next chiefs meeting or the next Keewaywin Conference.

“In my travels throughout Nishnawbe Aski, increasingly young people have come up to me and said ‘When do we begin to participate in the selection of our leadership with Nishnawbe Aski,’” Beardy said. “For that reason, we keep coming back to you for further direction in terms of creating that opportunity for all our people to have a role in selecting our leadership and to have a role in deciding the government that we want to build for ourselves for future generations.”

The mandate for universal vote was first introduced in 2003 to involve all NAN members in the decision-making and political process systems.

“We shall have to give it the right questions in terms of the costs of implementing this concept,” Beardy said. “If this is recognized by the NAN chiefs it could be a reality that we have a universal vote in the next two years.”

The universal vote for Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s executive council was brought up for was discussion June 10 during the 29th Keewaywin Conference.

“We have requested funding for a community consultation,” said Bill Nothing, a Chiefs Steering Committee member. “We are not sure we are going to get the proper amount of money to be able to do an in-depth communityby-community consultation.”

Without the proper funding, Nothing said the committee is looking at developing a process that covers “a good cross-section” of communities.

Over the past 30-plus years and 29 Keewaywin Conferences, Beardy said immense progress has been achieved

by NAN and its communities in many areas.

“Today when we look at our First Nation administration offices, when we look at the capabilities of our people to manage program services, we are very sophisticated,” Beardy said. “We take advantage of what is available to us, technology and outside knowledge. So 30 years later we are in the next phase in our development. Now we are beginning to look at governance.”

The Chiefs Steering Committee had previously stated it would take a full calendar year for the electoral process, from developing the voters list and seeking funding for the process to inaugurating the new executive.

They also found that a NAN-wide election – spanning two time zones, and with NAN members living in remote communities and urban centres – could cost up to $500,000.

Chris Kornacki/Wawatay News

Participants dance in a powwow that took place at Chippewa Park in Thunder Bay June 21. The powwow was part of the National Aboriginal Day celebrations at Chippewa that included a powwow, a community feast, live music and Native arts and crafts vendors. For more on National Aboriginal Day in Thunder Bay, Timmins and Sioux Lookout, please see pages 10-11.

ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐅᐃᐧᑭᑫᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᓇᐱ ᑫᑭ ᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᓂᓂᑕᐧ ᑫᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᕑᐃᐠ ᑲᕑᐃᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐢᑕᐣ ᐯᕑᑎ ᐅᑭᔕᔑᑭᒪᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐊᔕ ᒋᑭᑲᑫᐧᑭᔑ ᐅᓀᑕᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᒋᐸᑭᑎᓂᑕᐧ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑭᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᐱ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇᐧᐊ ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑐᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᔑᒋᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ. ᐊᑎᑲ ᐊᑯ ᑲᐸᐸᒥᐊᔭᔭᐣ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ, ᒥᔑᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᓂᐱᓇᓇᓯᑲᑯᐠ ᐁᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐨ, ᐊᓂᐣ ᐊᐱ ᑫᓂᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᑫᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᔭᐠ ᑲᐅᓂᓂᑕᐧ ᑫᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑯᔭᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᕑᑎ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᒋ ᑲᐅᒋᐱᑭᐁᐧ ᓇᓇᓯᑲᑯᔦᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᑕᒣᑭᐸᐣ ᒋᑕᐃᐧᓇᒪᐊᐧᔭᐠ ᑭᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐨ ᑲᐅᓂᓂᑕᐧ ᑫᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑫᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᑲᐃᐧᑲᑫᐧ ᐅᔑᑕᒪᓱᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᓂᓂᑲᐣ ᑫᔭᓂ ᐱᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ.

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ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᓇᑯᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᑭᐊᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑭᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑭᒪᒋᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᐸᐣ 2003 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᐊᔑᑎᓂᑕᐧ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑲᐅᒋᑎᐯᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐅᓀᐣᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ. ᐁᐃᓯᓭᑭᐸᐣ ᑕᐡ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑭᐃᔑ ᑲᑫᐧᑌᐧᔭᑭᐸᐣ ᑫᐃᔑᓇᑲᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑫᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᒣᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐱ ᐃᐧᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᓀᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᕑᑎ. ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐃᔑᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓇᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᒥᐦᐅᒪ ᑫᑭᐅᒋ ᐅᑦᐱᑲᐸᐃᐧᒪᑲᑭᐸᐣ ᐱᓂᐡ ᒋᑭᐊᓄᒋ ᑲᒋᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑭᐅᒋ ᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᐅᓂᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓂᔓᔭᑭ ᓂᑲᐣ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᒥᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᒪᒥᑐᓀᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᐊᔕ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᒥᑯᒋᑲᑌ ᒋᑭᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᓴᑭᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 10 ᐊᐱ ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑐᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ.

Purchase your reservations until July 31, 2010 for travel before October 1, 2010.

ᐣᑲᑫᐧᑌᐧᒥᓇᐸᐣ ᒋᑭᒥᓂᑯᔭᐠ ᔓᓂᔭ ᒋᑭᐊᔭᑭᓀ ᑲᑫᐧᒋᒥᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑕᔑᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐱᓫ ᓇᑎᐣᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᔑᑕᐱᐨ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᔭᑦᒋᑭᑫᐣᑕᒪᐠ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᒋᑭᑌᐱᒥᓂᑯᔭᐠ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᒋᑭᐊᐃᔓᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᔭᑭᐣ. ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑕᐡ ᐁᑲ ᐊᔭᐨ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ, ᓇᑎᐣᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑭᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᑐᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᑭᐅᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᓂᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐊᔕ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᓂᐦᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᒥᓇ 29 ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᒋᐦᐃᑎᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᐃᔑᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ, ᐯᕑᑎ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᔕ ᐃᐧᓂᑯ ᑭᒋᒥᔑᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑭᐱᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᐁᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᒪᐠ ᑭᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᒥᓇᐣ, ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᒪᐠ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᒋᐱᒥᐃᐧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᑭᑫᐣᑕᓱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑭᑕᔭᒥᐣ,

ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᕑᑎ. ᑭᑐᑕᐱᓇᒥᐣ ᑲᐊᓂᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ, ᐅᐡᑭ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᑲᐱᐅᒋᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓂᐦᓱᒥᑕᓇᐊᐦᑭ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᓂᐱᒥᓭ ᒋᔭᓂ ᐱᒪᓄᑲᑕᒪᐠ ᑭᐱᒥᐃᐧᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᐃᑯ ᐸᐢᑲᐣ ᐊᔕ ᐁᓯᓭᐠ ᒋᔭᓂ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᒪᐠ ᑭᑐᑭᒪᐃᐧ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᓂᑎᓱᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ. ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᐊᔕ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐸᓂᐠ ᐯᔑᑯᔭᑭ ᒋᐱᒥᓭᑭᐸᐣ ᒋᔭᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᒋᐅᓇᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᓂᐱᑌᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒋᓇᓇᑐᓇᐃᐧᐨ ᔓᓂᔭ ᐊᐱ ᐃᐧᐅᐡᑭ ᐅᓇᓯᐣᑕᐧ ᑫᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑭᐃᔑᒥᑲᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐱ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐱᐣᒋᐁᐧᐱᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ, ᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᔦ ᓂᔕᐧ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐁᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᑎᐸᐦᐃᑲᐣ, ᒥᓇ ᐁᒥᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓄᐱᒪᑲᒥᐠ ᐁᐃᔑᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐱᑯ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑕᑭᐃᔑ ᒣᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ $500,000 ᑕᓴᐧᐱᐠ.

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Wawatay News

JUNE 24, 2010

ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓇᐣ

‘No need to reinvent the wheel’ for consultation: Lazar Rick Garrick Wawatay News

There are many economic challenges and opportunities facing Nishnawbe Aski Nation.

These were discussed during the Keewaywin Conference, June 8-10 in Sandy Lake.

Fred Lazar, an associate professor of economics at York University’s Schulich School of Business in Toronto, discussed the need to create preconditions for consultation during his June 8 presentation.

“First, there is no need to reinvent the wheel,” Lazar said.

“Each consultation process does not have to begin from scratch.

You have a lot of history, there are some basic demands that will be falling across all consultation processes.”

Lazar said consultations should not be time consuming, but it should involve a process with prepared preconditions.

“You make it clear to all parties and you tell them now that you are stepping onto our land, these are the minimum requirements,” Lazar said. “If you are willing to play by (the) rules of the game, let’s sit down and fill in some of the gaps. If they are not willing to play by the rules of the game, tell them they are not invited.”

Lazar said the preconditions should be simple, clear and concise as well as clear to anyone outside the community.

“Finally, in developing the preconditions, you have to have consensus among all the First Nations of NAN and you have to develop a sharing mechanism that is fair to all people in NAN,” Lazar said.

While the development process for a mine can take from 10 to 20 years, Lazar said it is also important to consider the closure and rehabilitation process

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York University professor Fred Lazar, centre, speaks about the economic environment in the NAN territory during the Keewaywin Conference, held June 8-10 in Sandy Lake. of shutting down a mine during the negotiation process.

“That becomes a critical important stage for you,” Lazar said. “As well, … there is never any guarantee that a mine will go into production. Despite what one may hear about the Ring of Fire, despite what one may surmise from the positive comments about resource findings, there is no assurance there will ever be a development in this area.”

Lazar encouraged NAN First Nations to stand together and make it clear to the mining companies and government that unless they meet the minimum requirements there will not be any discussions.

“If they sit back and let the government and mining companies pick them off one at a time, then the deal will basically be biased towards the companies and will not favour any of the NAN First Nations and definitely not NAN as a whole,” Lazar said.

“If they stand together, then it’s going to be clear to the mining companies and the government that they can’t play the games they have in the past and they are going to be forced to meet these demands.”

Innu Nation Grand Chief Mark Nui described the Innu Nation’s negotiation strategy of not entering into Impact Benefit Agreements unless the benefits far outweigh the impacts during

his June 10 presentation.

“We have never signed a treaty, but we are in … treaty negotiations with Canada and Newfoundland,” Nui said. “We signed a framework agreement many days ago and are now close to an agreement in principle.”

The Innu Nation, which is made up of about 2,700 community members living in the two communities of Sheshatsiu and Natuashish, initialed an agreement Feb. 16 that completed outstanding issues in the Tshash Petapen (New Dawn) Agreement signed in principle in September 2008 with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, which includes

the Innu Rights Agreement, the Lower Churchill Impacts and Benefits Agreement and Innu redress for the upper Churchill hydroelectric development.

“Since 2005 we have been working very hard to complete these agreements,” Nui said.

“Previously in 2002 we entered into an Impact Benefit Agreement with Voisey Bay Nickel Company, which is fully owned

by Inco and now owned by Vale Inco.”

The Innu Nation requires an affirmation of Aboriginal consent in the IBA, financial benefits from the company and government, environmental protection and monitoring, business contract priorities and

employment of Innu. It also requires workplace conditions, Innu use of infrastructure, and tools to weigh potential impacts and benefits, including full and complete disclosure by the company of technical and operational aspects of the proposed project, full and complete financial disclosure of costs and revenues from the proposed project, a superb legal and technical team to work with leaders and negotiators to assess information, full and unlimited funding provided by the project proponent, ongoing community consultations and expert input by the Elders.

NOTICE

Waterpower Site Release Kabinakagami Hydropower Project Site Names and ID #'s: Neeskah Peeshoo Wahpeestan Wapoose

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As per the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources' Waterpower Site Release procedure, this Notice is providing notification to the public that Northland Power Inc. has applied to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to release the sites for the Kabinakagami Hydropower Project on the Kabinakagami River. Two of the sites (Neeskah and Peeshoo) are in the Township of Fushimi, while the other two are located in unorganized Township Area 239.

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Tax exemption will continue under HST Point of sale savings to resume Sept. 1 Chris Kornacki Wawatay News

After two months of collecting tax receipts for reimbursement, point of sale tax exemption will resume for Ontario’s First Nations.

The federal and provincial governments came to an agreement with First Nation leaders about continuing the point of sale tax exemption for First Nation Peoples under Ontario’s new HST, which will go into effect July 1.

This agreement was confirmed June 17 when Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse received letters from the Federal Finance Minister and Ontario Ministers Bentley and Wilkinson confirming an intergovernmental agreement for the continuation of the point of sale tax exemption for First Nations.

“I am thrilled and our people will be relieved that the point of sale exemption for First Nations will be continued with the HST framework,” said Toulouse.

“First Nations have worked tirelessly with Ontario and the federal government to make this a reality. The ability to achieve this reflects the great potential of the government-to-government relationship between Ontario and First Nations.”

The exemption from paying the provincial portion of the HST (eight per cent) will not be in place until Sept. 1, but in the interim from July 1 to Aug. 31, First Nations can receive refunds by submitting their receipts to the Ministry of Revenue.

Saving receipts shouldn’t be a huge inconvenience, said Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy.

“Some people may have problems tracking their receipts

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Community members from Fort William First Nation protested in opposition of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) May 4 near the Thunder Bay International Airport. Rallies like this one and others across the province, along with the threat of more to coincide with the G8 and G20 summits in southern Ontario this month, prompted an agreement between First Nation leaders, Ontario and Canada to reinstate point of sale tax exemptions for Natives. … but the bottom line is come Sept. 1, the historical practice of point of sale tax exemption will continue,” Beardy said.

“NAN communities can breathe a sigh of relief in knowing they will not have to fork up even more money to cover the cost of essential goods and services.

We are pleased that the historical practice of First Nations point-of-sale tax exemption will be maintained.”

For the past 30 years point

of sale tax exemption has been in place in Ontario under the Retail Sales Tax (RST). This system will now continue under the HST for both on and offreserve purchases.

“We have stood shoulder to shoulder with our First Nations partners for many months now to ensure the continuation of the point of sale exemption,” Chris Bentley, minister of Aboriginal affairs said.

“I am pleased that we have

now reached our shared goal together.”

Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee praised citizens of the 40 Anishinabek communities for their resistance to government efforts to impose the new 13 per cent HST against them.

“It was our demonstration of solidarity and plans for more peaceful direct action that convinced Canada they should not cross the line we drew in the

sand,” Madahbee said.

The Ontario government has released three points about the HST point of sale exemption: First Nations citizens will be exempt at the point of sale from off-reserve purchases, upon showing their status card from Sept. 1 onward. The two-month delay is to enable retailers and governments to make the necessary changes to their systems to accommodate the exemption.

Ontario and the federal gov-

ernment will be releasing in the coming days a technical backgrounder/bulletin describing the scope and procedures for the First Nation point of sale exemption.

For the months of July and August, First Nation citizens will be reimbursed the provincial portion of the HST upon the submission of receipts. Ontario will be releasing a memo/bulletin outlining the procedures for the refund.

Decision in Nault, Pikangikum case could take months James Thom Wawatay News

Having already defeated Indian and Northern Affairs Canada in court once over imposing an Indian agent on their community, Pikangikum recently returned to court again, suing the minister and ministry they claim is responsible for it.

Dozens of community members spent much of the past six weeks in a Kenora Superior Court of Justice courtroom listening to testimony from Robert Nault and others tied to the case including INAC staff. The civil trial ran from May 10 to June 11 though this issue has been a decade in the making. A decision from Justice Peter Wright is not expected for months.

The court battle between the First Nation, INAC and Nault centres around whether Nault abused his power as a minister by allegedly cancelling building projects including a sewer and water project after the community served him with notification papers over the original 2000-2002 court battle.

That battle was fought over legalities of INAC placing Pikangikum under third-party management.

Chief and council were notified by a letter dated Nov. 7, 2000, from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada that their community was slated for third party management.

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Ltd., was appointed by INAC to oversee the band’s financial affairs after Arun M. Dighe, regional director associate, used Sec. 4.14 of the Indian Act to allege the leaders were compromising the health and safety of its community members.

While the court battle waged on, the community alleges Nault froze funding for $40 million worth of infrastructure projects including a school, housing, water treatment plant, electrical grid and generator.

The community asked for a judicial review of Nault’s move in April 2001.

Nault A federal court in Winnipeg ruled Dec. 2, 2002 Nault had acted illegally when he assigned an outside financial manager for the community.

Justice John A. O’Keefe ruled at the time “the application for judicial review is allowed and the decision of the minister to require co-management is invalid due to a breach of the duty of procedural fairness.”

Building on that case, Pikangikum is seeking general damages of loss of the projects (more than $10 million), special damages including the cost of the third party manager (about $1.5 million), and punitive damages (no specific amount claimed).

This relates to the defendants’ abuse of public office, intimidation and falsehoods made by the defendants, according to the statement of claim filed with the court.

During the closing arguments of the case, Dave Hill, who represented Nault, said it’s up to the justice to determine if his client did anything deliberately unlawful, knowing it was unlawful and would hurt the plaintiff.

He argued Nault did nothing wrong. “(Nault) withstood 16 hours of cross-examination,” Hill said, noting unless Wright was prepared to rule Nault was outright lying, there is no case.

He said just because the sewer and water project had proceeded to tender by 2001, it didn’t mean it was ready to go. “(INAC doesn’t) automatically fund projects, even under third-party management,” Hill said. “The community needed capacity to build and run the water treatment plant. INAC was concerned about Pikangikum’s capacity to build projects.”

Hill questioned whether Nault played a role in the project failing to move ahead.

“If he stopped the project, how long did that stoppage take place,” Hill said, adding that none of the projects have since been built.

Joseph Magnet, one of two lawyers representing Pikangi-

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Pikangikum First Nation is suing former Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Minister Robert Nault and the ministry for millions over infrastructure that has yet to be built in the community. The case is being heard in Kenora before Justice Peter Wright. kum, said the project failed to move ahead because Nault failed to sign off on the funding, forcing a retendering.

“The evidence suggests (Nault) stopped the project by doing nothing,” Wright said, while listening to Hill’s explanation of the tender process.

John Tyhurst, from the Department of Justice which defended INAC and Canada at the trial, spoke about the proj-

ects and their lack of construction, even now.

While Pikangikum’s lawyers argued it should be entitled to a value reflective of what the capital investment in the community would be worth, Tyhurst said the assets shouldn’t matter.

“The defendant shouldn’t be awarded damages since the projects haven’t been put in place,” he said. “We don’t know what the value of the assets in

the ground would be to the First Nation.”

Magnet sees it differently.

Pikangikum would be a different place had Nault not been INAC minister.

“But not for Nault’s abuse of power, the band would have had its five projects,” he said.

Pikangikum Chief Jonah Strang and the community’s lawyers declined to be interviewed.

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An Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act

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You should see ‘Reel Injun’ Xavier Kataquapit

Brent Wesley COLUMN

W

ell, we still have pointof-sale tax exemption when the new HST takes effect. A nice victory.

Although it won’t happen until September as a process is figured out.

It all makes me think though, is this the only reason First Nation people use status cards these days?

And as I think more about the status card sitting in my wallet, identifying me as “an Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act,” I realize how offensive such a thing really is. For a long while, I never thought much about it.

I’m sure we all take it for granted that our identity, according to the government of Canada, is marked at birth with the granting of status. Without this status, we are not entitled to the rights guaranteed to us by way of treaty or social policy.

When I was in New Zealand earlier this year, I had an opportunity to meet with some Maori, the country’s Indigenous peoples. It was quite the experience to meet, talk and share with the people I met. We shared our cultures, our differences, our similarities.

Eventually, the conversation turned to identity. To the Maori, identity is as simple as if you consider yourself Maori, then you are Maori. There is a social order in how the Maori are organized which starts with the family, the extended family, the community, the tribe and the nation.

It’s similar to First Nations in Canada, but with the Maori, the families belong to a Marae, a traditional meeting place/ building, which forms the community. Several Marae make up the tribe.

As I very casually explained the many nations of Aboriginal people in Canada and such concepts as clans and such, I said things are much different today.

When we’re born, each of us is given a status card, which tells us we’re Indian according to the government.

The reaction I received was one of shock. Then appalled.

It was incomprehensible and offending to the Maori I met that another nation would do such a thing to the Indigenous people of the land. The Maori in New Zealand would not stand for such imposing treatment, that upon birth, a number is assigned certifying Indian status.

I could only reply that I agree, but that it was the way things are and we seem to have accepted things as such.

Since then, I’ve asked myself how did it come to this point?

Why do we continue to allow the government to choose who is Aboriginal? Sure, our communities now make these decisions and to administer who belongs to the individual bands.

But the decisions are still made according to the standards of the Indian Act. It’s not by our own standards.

And I wonder, if we lost the point-of-sale exemption, what else would our status cards be good for? Well, education and health rights come to mind.

“If we lost the point-ofsale exemption, what else would our status cards be good for?”

But these days, these things seem more like a privilege (a concept my mom often talked about in my youth, that our rights are in danger of eroding and things such as education will become a privilege).

As it is today, there’s often not enough money to go around to fund everyone for school.

And if Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) has its way, post secondary education funding will no longer be freely provided, but rather loans or grants provided at their discretion.

With health, I have to wonder what’s on the horizon. But as we know, INAC provides these things as a matter of social policy. While we view them as treaty or inherent rights, INAC has a much different view.

So the question remains, does our status mean much these days? Well, for the time being, we’ll still be able to use it when making retail purchases.

But if you’re like me, it’s the only time my card comes out of my wallet.

UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

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ecently, I viewed a documentary titled ‘Reel Injun’ a production

by Cree film maker, Neil Diamond, who is originally from Waskaganish, Que., on the James Bay coast.

This was one of the most informative documentaries on First Nation people I have ever watched concerning myths about Natives. I have always been confused about my background in terms of image and promotion produced in the media in general. I never understood or identified with the ideas, myths and stereotypes the world has about Native North Americans. ‘Reel Injun’ really gave me the facts about how all these strange perceptions of Native people evolved.

I have had the opportunity to chat with Neil several times as he is associated with the Nation magazine, a publication produced for the Eeyou Istchee, the Cree of Northern Quebec. I easily identified with Neil’s narrative in ‘Reel Injun’, as he presented the documentary with a generous amount of Native good humour. He is quick to have fun and as a James Bay Cree, Neil understands that making someone laugh while you are teaching them is a Cree tradition that

ensures that your story will be appreciated and remembered.

Identifying myself as an Indian has always been complicated and at times frustrating.

I have travelled in other parts of the world and whenever people discover that I am Indian they immediately think that I am Asian and come from India. It gets even stranger for me when I explain to them what my background really is. It seems unreal for most people that they would meet a real Canadian Indian in their country. We don’t travel all that much.

To demonstrate who I am, I have discovered that the easiest way to get my point across is by performing a Hollywood style war whoop and pretending to pull back an imaginary bow and arrow. No matter what language or culture I am dealing with I realized on my travels that any person who has ever watched television in their lives understands what a war whoop and bow and arrow means. It is the image of a half naked, brown skinned, long haired Indian, riding bare back on his pony across the prairies.

The wild prairie Indian is an image that has created all sorts of myths and stereotypes over the years. We can thank television and the movies for those ideas. My Hollywood style Indian act always surprises and delights people from other cultures and then I have the task of telling them about First Nation life in Canada and our traditions and cultures. They are often very shocked that we

don’t live in teepees, do not ride horses and we actually live very modern lives.

Neil Diamond’s ‘Reel Injun’ is a genuine and honest perspective of the history of the Hollywood Indian.

The film features many prominent Aboriginal personalities such as Adam Beach, Graham Greene and Robbie Robertson. I was surprised to see Hollywood actor Clint Eastwood, who famously starred in many westerns and cowboy films, share his experiences in the movie industry and his work with Aboriginal actors.

Native activists and advocates from the 60s and 70s were included in the mix to share their perspectives and sometimes their roles in the Hollywood film business. Filmmakers and historians balanced the narrative with Native comedians who poked fun at the strange and outrageous stereotypes and portrayals of the Hollywood Indian.

The documentary has been featured in many festivals and is scheduled to be presented at many more across the country. Most notably it is being presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this summer and at the Museum of London, UK in the fall. Scheduled listings can be found by visiting the film’s website at www.reelinjunthemovie.com ‘Reel Injun’ goes back to the very beginning of the movie making industry and to the invention of the moving picture. From that early beginning, many of the ideas and

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images of Native people have been shaped and cultivated by movies and television. Neil and his production staff did an excellent job of presenting the history of Native people on the big screen and how our popularity has ebbed and flowed with the changing social scene over the past century. In one hour, ‘Reel Injun’ gave me a healthy and informative perspective on the history of how my people are perceived in this world.

I understood much of this already but ‘Reel Injun’ really pulled all the facts together to create a valuable perspective.

I got a good laugh at how early Hollywood film producers wanted real Indians but could not find them and what they had to do to put wild savages on the screen. There were flash backs of real Plains Indian Elders who took roles in cowboy westerns because they were able to speak their own language. It turns out that when their speaking parts were translated decades later, those old Elders had enjoyed some fun with the Hollywood cowboys they were working with and nobody knew.

Thanks to the fact that more and more Native people are becoming involved in the media there has been much development in terms of educating the world about my people. So a huge Meegwetch to Neil Diamond for producing ‘Reel Injun’ for the teaching it provides in a humorous and sensitive package. Put it on your list of great movies to see.

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Finding yourself in the past, present, future Richard Wagamese ONE NATIVE LIFE

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here are mornings here when the quiet comes to fill you.

You walk the line of lake cautiously not wanting to break the spell of it. There’s mist on the water and it drifts upwards off the rock enveloping you and the feeling is not of disappearing from this view but of sinking into it.

Within this stillness you swear you can hear the sounds of drums on distant hills. You close your eyes and in the push of breeze there’s the wail and chant of singers and this fusty shoreline holds in it the smell of something ancient, something timeless, eternal, articulate, significant and vast. You only need to breathe it into you to become it.

There’s nothing in your experience to match this deliberate taking in. You who have fought so hard to find a place here, for a definition beyond what the skin implies have never encountered such frank acceptance of being. Against the push of land, the sweep of it, you fit easily like another shoot of grass and there’s the sense in you that this is what it means to be Indian.

They’ve called you many things in your time here. You’ve been savage, redman, First Person, Aboriginal, Native, Indigenous and an original inhabitant. You’ve been labeled, tagged, defined, categorized, filed and absorbed. Many times you’ve been analyzed, probed, studied, examined, inspected and researched. Never have they called you by your name.

When you were young they called you Itchybum. In those long purple summer evenings the game was cowboys and Indians except for them, you were an Itchybum. An Itchybum was a joke, a cartoon in their minds because that was all they knew of you. And so you ran, hightailed it really, through the backyards of your boyhood pursued by miniature heroes intent on bagging you.

In the schools they sent you to they called you special needs.

They treated you as though you assembled the world in fog and

clarity was something forged in the strap and paddle and a rigid discipline meant to bring you into line. They called you slow, awkward, and remedial because the shyness born of displacement wouldn’t let you speak. So they called you Indian.

Later, in the home they placed you in they called you adopted. No one ever translated that for you, never explained the intent of it, the meaning, never let you know that it means plainly, to be accepted.

Instead, all you came to know of it was that it meant being reassembled, rearranged, remade in an image your skin made impossible.

And once when a new cousin asked you at a gathering, ”Did you used to be an Indian?” they laughed and you didn’t know what to say.

But when you found your people you became Ojibway. You became Anishinabe.

You became Sturgeon Clan. You became Wagamese again.

In the schools and neighborhoods you found yourself in you became a wagon burner, a squaw hopper, a bush bunny, a dirty teepee creeper and sometimes because they didn’t know what to make of you, a chink. You didn’t know how to react and shame made you keep them to yourself, to bear them silently, feel the hurt like a bruise and say nothing.

On the streets where you ran to they called you a lazy, shiftless, stupid, drunken, welfare bum. They expected failure of you and when you tried to keep pace and learn, express and grow they called you uppity, confused and immature. You need to learn your place they said but never offered to help you find it.

In the shops, foundries and camps where you went to work they called you jack pine nigger and in the fights and brawls that came of it you learned that scrapping was exactly what they expected. It anchored it, made it valid to them and again you did not know what to say.

You learned that labels have

weight, incredible, hard and inescapable. You learned to drink so that you wouldn’t have to hear them, carry them, or feel their implication stuck in you like arrows. And in your drunken stumble the shutters on their homes snapped closed because you’d become exactly what they expected.

But when you found your people you became Ojibway.

You became Anishinabe. You became Sturgeon Clan. You became Wagamese again and in that name a recognition of being that felt like a balm on the rawness where they’d scraped the Indian away. Ojibway. It resonated in you, a label that held the promise of discovery, of homecoming, of reclamation and rejuvenation.

Oh, you struggled to understand its meaning. The fact of it applied to your life was another weight and the burden was something you trundled through choices meant to allow you to wear it more gracefully.

Everything you chose became Indian. Everything you allowed into your world was native and when the tag sometimes did not adhere, again, you did not know what to say.

You were created to be three things the Wise Ones in your circles told you then. You were created to be a male, Ojibway human being. That is the truth of you, the Creator’s gift to you, never to be erased, eradicated, or taken away. One truth that carries within it many truths.

Since then you’ve learned to look for them wherever they might be; in culture, philosophy, tradition, books, songs, stories, ceremony, ritual and spirituality. What you learned is what the Wise Ones said; that there is not one over arching truth that defines you or your experience. There are many truths and they frame you, give you breadth, give you being.

So that now, standing in the mist off the water, feeling the land inhabit you, you understand that what it comes to mean, this word Indian, is life.

Life with all its vagaries, wrong turns, poor choices, indecisions, mistakes, sins, sorrows, triumphs and small glories is what becomes you in the end. Accepting it, wearing it loose as an old blanket, is what gives you grace, what grants you identity.

You fit here. You belong. No matter what they call you.

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Simple planning makes retirement easier Gord Keesic YOUR MONEY MATTERS

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or First Nations people who contribute to a pension plan and have non-taxable income, there are several important things ‘to do’ before retirement begins.

If the above situation accurately describes your situation, there are several things to do before you actually retire and begin withdrawing from your pension savings.

1) See your financial advisor.

A financial advisor can help you to decide which course of action is right for you. For example, when you retire, there are a number of options you must choose.

What will you do with your money? Will you purchase an annuity, transfer to a LIRA, a LIF or a LIRF? Each option has positives and negatives associ-

ated with it.

Your Financial Advisor can also help you to design an appropriate retirement income portfolio to help you meet your cash flow needs.

2) Get a letter from your employer indicating that you have contributed to a pension plan while earning non-taxable income.

This is very important for First Nations persons because in order to establish that your pension retirement income is non-taxable, you must be able to verify that you were making contributions to the company pension plan while earning ‘Indian Act’ income.

For those who have worked for multiple employers, I suggest that they get letters from each one of those employers indicating the same.

If some of the value in your pension account was from a previous taxable job, then hopefully you have not combined the taxable and the non-taxable base pension contributions into one pension account.

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If you have, however, the amount of pension income you will be able to withdraw with no tax consequences will be pro-rated.

“You must be able to verify that you were making contributions to the company pension plan.”

In other words, if you worked 30 per cent of your career offreserve and 70 per cent of your career on-reserve, then your income will be taxed at 30 per cent of what it would be when compared to a fully-taxable individual.

3) Write a letter to the CRA. In this letter, you should include a front and back copy of your status card and the letter itself should indicate that you are a status Indian and plan to begin withdrawing from your pension

savings.

You should indicate that in accordance with current CRA policies and section 87 of the Indian Act, your pension income should be non-taxable.

Therefore, you are requesting a letter indicating that whichever financial institution that manages your pension savings be exempt from withholding tax on the income you withdraw.

If this step is not completed, then all financial institutions are required to withhold tax for all income that is withdrawn from pension accounts. The person then has to attempt to get back their taxes from Revenue Canada.

This is much more difficult than getting an advanced tax ruling before you retire, in my opinion.

Normally, I recommend that persons begin the process listed above at least six months before they retire. The purpose of the letters is to firmly establish the two key criteria that CRA uses to determine whether your pension income is non-taxable.

First, you must be status and you must be contributing to a pension plan while earning exempt income. If these two criteria are met, then CRA should answer your letter in the affirmative, barring a change in legal interpretation regarding Section 87 of the Indian Act. If you have further questions, you can visit the CRA website or speak to your financial advisor.

It usually takes Revenue Canada several weeks to respond along with the time taken to write the letters and direct

them appropriately.

In some cases, CRA may request additional information and then you may be required to provide that information.

This article is supplied by Gordon Keesic, an Investment Advisor with RBC Dominion Securities Inc in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Member CIPF. This article is for information purposes only.

Please consult with a professional advisor before taking any action based on information in this article.

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Commission de l’Énergie de l’Ontario

NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND HEARING Ontario

HYDRO ONE NETWORKS INC. – CHANGE TO ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION REVENUE REQUIREMENT AND RATES

EB-2010-0002 Hydro One Networks Inc. (“Hydro One”) has filed an application with the Ontario Energy Board (the “Board”) on May 19, 2010 under section 78 of the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c.15 (Schedule B). Hydro One is seeking approval for changes to its 2011 and 2012 revenue requirement and for approval for changes to the provincial uniform transmission rates that Hydro One charges for electricity transmission to be effective January 1, 2011 and January 1, 2012. The Board has assigned the application File No. EB-2010-0002.

Hydro One has also included its Transmission Green Energy Plan as part of this application.

Hydro One is seeking approval of $1,446 million as the 2011 revenue it requires to provide electricity transmission and $1,547 million as the 2012 revenue it requires to provide electricity transmission. This compares with the Board approved level of $1,257 million for 2010. Hydro One indicates that if the application is approved as filed, the resulting increase in the Hydro One Transmission Revenue Requirement will be 15.0% in 2011 and 7.0% in 2012 which represents an estimated average increase on total customer bills of 1.2% in 2011 and 0.7% in 2012. For a residential customer consuming 800 kWh per month, the estimated increase on the customer’s total monthly bill is $1.39 in 2011 and $1.00 in 2012.

The actual impact on a customer’s bill will vary depending on the customer’s specific actual monthly kWh usage.

The Board’s decision on this application will have an effect on all electricity consumers in Ontario. Any change to the uniform transmission rates will cause the rates charged to consumers through their local distribution companies to change. Retail transmission charges (which are determined by the uniform transmission rates) are part of the delivery line that is one of the four regular items that appear on all Residential and General Service electricity bills. This change to the delivery component of the bill is separate from other potential changes to electricity bills, which could include changes to the “electricity” component charges, changes to distribution charges and changes to other charges included on the bill. This application deals only with the potential increase to the delivery component of the bill that may result from an increase in the uniform transmission rates.

The Board will proceed with this application by way of oral hearing.

How to see Hydro One Networks Inc.’s Application Copies of the application are available for inspection at the Board’s office in Toronto and on its website, www.oeb.gov.on.ca, at Hydro One Networks Inc.’s website www.HydroOneNetworks.com and at the following Hydro One Networks Inc. offices: Head Office, 483 Bay Street, Toronto Markham Office, 185 Clegg Road, Markham Barrie Field Business Centre, 45 Sarjeant Drive, Barrie Peterborough Field Business Centre, 913 Crawford Drive, Peterborough Sudbury Field Business Centre, 957 Falconbridge Road, Sudbury Merivale Service Centre, 31 Woodfield Drive, Ottawa Dundas Field Business Centre, 40 Olympic Drive, Dundas Beachville Field Business Centre, 56 Embro Street, Beachville Thunder Bay Field Business Centre, 255 Burwood Road, Thunder Bay How to Participate You may participate in this proceeding in one of three ways: 1. Send a Letter with your Comments to the Board Your letter with comments will be provided to the Board members deciding the application, and will be part of the public record for the application. If you wish to make an oral presentation to the Board, your letter should include this request. Your letter must be received by the Board no later than 30 days from the publication or service date of this notice. The Board accepts letters of comment by either post or e-mail at the addresses below.

2. Become an Observer Observers do not actively participate in the proceeding but monitor the progress of the proceeding by receiving documents issued by the Board. You may request observer status in order to receive documents issued by the Board in this proceeding.

If you become an observer, you need to contact the applicant and others to receive documents that they file in this proceeding and they may charge you for this. Most documents filed in this application will also be available on the Board’s website. Your request for observer status must be made in writing and be received by the Board no later than 10 days from the publication or service date of this notice. The Board accepts observer request letters by either post or e-mail at the addresses below; however, two paper copies are also required. You must also provide a copy of your letter to the applicant.

3. Become an Intervenor You may ask to become an intervenor if you wish to actively participate in the proceeding. Intervenors are eligible to receive evidence and other material submitted by participants in the hearing. Likewise, intervenors will be expected to send copies of any material they file to all parties to the hearing.

Your request for intervenor status must be made by letter of intervention and be received by the Board no later than 10 days from the publication or service date of this notice.

Your letter of intervention must include a description of how you are, or may be, affected by the outcome of this proceeding; and if you represent a group, a description of the group and its membership. The Board may order costs in this proceeding. You must indicate in your letter of intervention whether you expect to seek costs from the applicant and the grounds for your eligibility for costs. You must provide a copy of your letter of intervention to the applicant.

If you already have a user ID, please submit your intervention request through the Board’s web portal at www.errr.oeb.gov.on.ca. Additionally, two paper copies are required. If you do not have a user ID, please visit the Board’s website under e-filings and fill out a user ID password request. For instructions on how to submit and naming conventions please refer to the RESS Document Guidelines found at www.oeb.gov.on.ca, e-Filing Services. The Board also accepts interventions by e-mail, at the address below, and again, two additional paper copies are required. Those who do not have internet access are required to submit their intervention request on a CD or diskette in PDF format, along with two paper copies.

How to Contact Us In responding to this Notice, please include Board file number EB-2010-0002 in the subject line of your e-mail or at the top of your letter. It is also important that you provide your name, postal address and telephone number and, if available, an e-mail address and fax number. All communications should be directed to the attention of the Board Secretary at the address below, and be received no later than 4:45 p.m. on the required date.

Need More Information?

Further information on how to participate may be obtained by visiting the Board’s website at www.oeb.gov.on.ca or by calling our Consumer Relations Centre at 1-877-632-2727.

IMPORTANT IF YOU DO NOT REQUEST TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS NOTICE, THE BOARD MAY PROCEED IN YOUR ABSENCE AND YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO ANY FURTHER NOTICE IN THIS PROCEEDING. Addresses The Board: Post: Ontario Energy Board P.O. Box 2319 2300 Yonge Street, 27th Floor Toronto ON M4P 1E4 Attn: Board Secretary Filings: www.errr.oeb.gov.on.ca E-mail: Boardsec@oeb.gov.on.ca Tel: 1-888-632-6273 (toll free) Fax: 416-440-7656 The Applicant: Hydro One Networks Inc. 8th Floor, South Tower 483 Bay Street Toronto ON M5G 2P5 Attn: Ms. Anne-Marie Reilly Regulatory Coordinator – Regulatory Affairs E-mail: regulatory@hydroone.com Tel: 416-345-6482 Fax: 416-345-5866

Counsel for the Applicant: Mr. D.H. Rogers, Q.C. Rogers Partners LLP 100 Wellington Street West Suite 500, P.O. Box 255 Toronto ON M5K 1J Tel: 416-594-4500 Fax: 416-594-9100 E-mail: don.rogers@rogerspartners.com

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DATED at Toronto, June 7, 2010 ONTARIO ENERGY BOARD

Original Signed by Kirsten Walli Board Secretary

Far North Act needs changes

Dear Premier McGuinty,

We, the leadership of Mushkegowuk Council, strongly believe in the need for land use planning. However, we have serious concerns over Bill 191: The Far North Act. What to the rest of Ontario is the “Far North” is the homeland of the Mushkegowuk people.

Your announcement regarding this area in July 2008 attracted international attention when you spoke to our collective responsibility “to get this right and to act now.”

Further, you set the stage for “a new respect and working relationship with First Nations” where we would have a “much greater say on the future of their communities and traditional lands.”

We are concerned Bill 191 does not adequately reflect your vision and does not address our concerns.

It is important the implementation of the entire initiative is conducted in a true partnership between First Nations and the province of Ontario. We are concerned our First Nations do not have the adequate resources to carry out planning.

Recent funding decisions have been made unilaterally by the Ministry of Natural Resources and are completely inadequate to undertake this initiative. It appears the majority of funding for Far North planning is being used within the MNR and is not reaching First Nations where it is needed most. This lack of transparency is hindering the overall success of the initiative and raising serious questions.

We would also like to make it clear the acceptance of funding

by First Nations to undertake land use planning activities does not signify an acceptance of Bill 191.

Specifically, we are looking for the following amendments to Bill 191: • Room needs to be made for greater co-operation among First Nations. For example, Mushkegowuk First Nations have agreed to develop a collective approach to planning that is community-based but shares common resources and information among the First Nations; • The planning area should respect watersheds and traditional homelands. Bill 191 in its current form splits the Mushkegowuk territory, only allowing participation of the northern part; • An adequate planning fund should be established that is administered jointly by First Nations and the province to allow for greater transparency; • A joint body representing the province and First Nations should be established to guide planning for the Mushkegowuk/James Bay area. Other bodies could represent other parts of the Far North. This would respect both First Nation affiliations and ecological regions; • First Nations should have the responsibility to select and manage protected areas and other planning designations; • Staking and new exploration activities must be paused until we have had an opportunity to complete land use plans, which would outline where these activities could take place; and • Land use plans need to be agreed to by both First Nations and the province. Likewise, it stands to reason both parties should need to agree to future changes in plans.

see next page Dear Editor:

I am writing this letter to find something out.

What I would like to know is, why do reservation bands get thousands of dollars for their band members even the ones who live off reserve?

We, the ones who live off reserve, ask for monies and support from our bands and we receive none.

They always say they have no money yet the government gives the bands thousands and thousands of dollars for our head count; our so called band number.

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LETTERS Band head count funding unfair, forcing students to use loans

Why do they get all this money and can’t help us? We are then forced to go to OSAP and go into debt (for post-secondary schooling).

This is one of the reasons we here in Kapuskasing are leaving our parent band Moose Factory First Nation to start our own, but they won’t let us because they will lose all the resources here in the Kapuskasing area.

Talk about greed and no respect for First Nations people living off reserve; the ones the band is supposed to be helping.

Ernest Sutherland Kapuskasing

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Dilico opens Longlac office at these locations

Aroland First Nation Band Office Atikokan Atikokan Native Friendship Centre Attawapiskat Northern Store Balmertown Diane’s Gas Bar 41 Dickenson Balmertown Keewaytinook Okimakanak 127 Mine Road Batchewana First Nation Band Office Bearskin Lake Co-op Store Bearskin Lake Northern Store Beaverhouse First Nation Band Office Big Grassy First Nation Band Office Big Island First Nation Band Office Big Trout Lake Education Authority Big Trout Lake Sam’s Store Big Trout Lake Tasona Store Brunswick House First Nation Band Office Calstock A & J General Store Calstock Band Office Cat Lake Band Office Cat Lake Northern Store Chapleau Cree First Nation Band Office Chapleau Value Mart Cochrane Ininew Friendship Centre Collins Namaygoosisagon Band office Collins Post Office Couchiching First Nation Band Office Couchiching First Nation Gas Bar Deer Lake Northern Store Dinorwic Naumans General Store Dryden A & W Dryden Beaver Lake Camp Dryden Greyhound Bus Depot Dryden McDonalds’ Restaurant Dryden Northwest Metis 34A King St. Dryden Robin’s Donuts Dryden Tim Hortons Ear Falls The Pit Stop Emo J & D Junction Flying Post First Nation Band Office Fort Albany Band Office Fort Albany Northern Store Fort Frances Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre 1460 Idylwild Drive Fort Frances Sunset Country Metis Fort Frances United Native Friendship Centre Fort Hope Band Office Fort Hope Corny’s Variety Store Fort Hope John C. Yesno Education Centre Fort Severn Northern Store Geraldton Thunder Bird Friendship Centre Ginoogaming First Nation Band Office Grassy Narrows J.B. Store Gull Bay Band Office Hornepayne First Nation Band Office Hornepayne G & L Variety Store Hudson Grant’s Store Iskatewizaagegan 39 Independent First Nation Band Office Kapuskasing Indian Friendship Centre 41 Murdock St.

Kasabonika Chief Simeon McKay Education Centre Kasabonika First Nation Band Office Kashechewan Francine J. Wesley Secondary School Kashechewan First Nation Band Office Kashechewan Northern Store Keewaywin First Nation Band Office Keewaywin Northern Store Kenora Bimose Tribal Council 598 Lakeview Dr. Kenora Chefield Gourmet, Kenora Shoppers 534 Park St. - ON SALE Kenora Chiefs Advisory Kenora Migisi Treatment Centre Kenora Ne-Chee Friendship Centre Kenora Sunset Strip Husky - ON SALE Kingfisher Lake Omahamo Hotel Complex Kingfisher Lake Omahamo Store Kocheching First Nation Band Office Lac La Croix First Nation Band Office Lac Seul, Kejick Bay Lakeside Cash & Carry Lake Nipigon Ojibway First Nation Band Office Lansdowne House Co-op Store Lansdowne House Northern Store Long Lake #58 General Store Mattagammi Confectionary Michipicoten First Nation Band Office Migisi Sahgaigan First Nation Band Office Missanabie Cree First Nation Band Office Mobert Band Office Moose Factory Echo Lodge Restaurant Moose Factory GG’s Corner & Gift Store Moose Factory Northern Stores Moose Factory Weeneebayko General Hospital Moosonee Air Creebec Moosonee Airport Moosonee Native Friendship Centre Moosonee Northern Store Moosonee Ontario Northland Railway Moosonee Polar Bear Lodge Moosonee Tasha’s Variety Moosonee Tempo Variety Moosonee Two Bay Enterprises Muskrat Dam Lisa Beardy Muskrat Dam Muskrat Dam Community Store Musselwhite Mine Naicatchewenin First Nation Band Office Naotikamegwanning First Nation Band Office Nestor Falls C & C Motel Nestor Falls Onegaming Gas & Convenience Nicikousemenecaning First Nation Band Office North Spirit Lake Band Office North Spirit Lake Cameron Store Northwest Angle #33 Band Office Northwest Angle #37 Band Office Ochiichagwe’Babigo’ Ining First Nation Band Office Ogoki Trappers Store Ojibways of Pic River Nation Band Office Osnaburgh Band Office Osnaburgh Laureen’s Grocery & Gas

Pawitik Pawitik Store Pays Plat First Nation Band Office Peawanuck General Store Pickle Lake Frontier Foods Pickle Lake Winston Motor Hotel Pikangikum Band Office Band Office Pikangikum Education Authority Pikangikum Northern Store Poplar Hill Northern Store Poplar Hill Poplar Hill Band Office Rainy River First Nation Band Office Red Lake Couchenour Airport Red Lake Indian Friendship Centre Red Lake Regional Heritage Centre Red Lake Video Plus Red Rock First Nation Band Office Rocky Bay First Nation Lar’s Place Sachigo Lake Brian Barkman Sachigo Lake Sachigo Co-op Store Sandy Lake A-Dow-Gamick Sandy Lake David B. Fiddler, Band Office Sandy Lake Northern Store Sandy Lake Education Authority Sandy Lake Special Education Class Saugeen First Nation Sault Ste. Marie Indian Friendship Centre 122 East St. Savant Lake Ennis Grocery Store Seine River First Nation Band Office Shoal Lake #40 First Nation Band Office Sioux Narrows Anishinaabeg of Kabapikotawang Slate Falls Band Office Stanjikoming First Nation Band Office Stratton Kay-nah-chi-wah-nung Historica Summer Beaver Nibinamik Community Store Taykwa Tagamou Nation, New Post First Nation Band Office Timmins Air Creebec Timmins Timmins Indian Friendship Centre 316 Spruce St. S. Timmins Wawatay N.C.S 135 Pine St. S. Wabaskang First Nation Band Office Wabigoon First Nation Community Store Wabigoon Green Achers of Wabigoon 10695 Hwy 17 Wahgoshing First Nation Wapekeka Wapekeka Community Store Washaganish Band Office Wauzhusk Onigum First Nation Band Office Wawakapewin Band Office Weagamow Lake Northern Store Weagamow Lake Onatamakay Community Store Webequie Northern Store Whitedog Kent Store Whitesand First Nation Band Office Wunnimun Lake General Store Wunnimun Lake Ken-Na-Wach Radio Wunnimun Lake Northern Store

401 N. Cumberland St. Wawatay News Sub Office 216 South Algoma St. Wequedong Lodge Lodge 1. 228 S. Archibald St. Lodge 2. 189 N. Court St. Lodge 3. 750 MacDonnell St. Fort William First Nation: Bannon’s Gas Bar / R.R #4 City Rd. Fort William First Nation / Band Office K & A Variety THP Variety and Gas Bar/606 City Rd. Hulls Family Bookstore 127 Brodie Street South Quality Market 146 Cenntennial Square

Quality Market 1020 Dawson Rd. Mark Sault 409 George St. Metis Nation of Ontario 226 S. May St. John Howard Society Of Thunder Bay & District/132 N. Archibald St. The UPS Store/1020 Dawaon Rd. Redwood Park /2609 Redwood Ave. Confederation College: 510 Victoria Ave. East 778 Grand Point Rd. 1500 S James St. 111 Frederica St.

Mascotto Marine Meno-ya-win Health Centre, Activity Centre Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre Northern Store Pelican Falls First Nation High School Rexall Drug Stores Queen Elizabeth D.H.S. Darren Lentz Queen Elizabeth D.H.S. Native Studies Robin’s Donuts Shibogama Tribal Council 81 King St. Sioux Lookout Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre, Nursing Flr. Sioux Lookout Public Library Sioux Lotto Sioux Pharmacy

Sioux Travel Slate Falls Airways Sunset Inn Sunset Suites Travel Information Centre Wasaya Airways Wellington Inn William A. Bill George Extended Care Unit 75 - 5th Ave N Wilson’s Business Solutions Windigo Tribal Council Sacred Heart School Sioux Mountain Public School

Thunder Bay Outlets An Eagles Cry Ministry 100 Simpson St. Central News 626 Waterloo St. - ON SALE Dennis F. Cromarty High School 315 N. Edward St. Ka-Na-Chi-Hih Treatment Centre 1700 Dease Street Lakehead University Aboriginal Awareness Centre / 955 Oliver Road, Room SC0019 Native People of Thunder Bay Development Corp. / 230 Van Norman St. Negahneewin College of Indigenous Studies C 106. 1450 Nakina Drive Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre

Sioux Lookout Outlets Sioux Lookout Airport Interpreter’s Desk Al’s Sports Excellence Best Western Chicken Chef D.J’s Gas Bar Drayton Cash & Carry Fifth Avenue Club First Step Women’s Shelter Forest Inn Fred & Dee’s IFNA 98 King St. Johnny’s Food Market L.A. Meats Linda DeRose Lamplighter Motel

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Dilico Anishinabek Family Care recently opened its new 7,200-square foot Longlac district office.

Taking part in the ceremony were, from left, Garry Gustafson, board vice-president of Dilico, Michael Power, Mayor of Greenstone, Allan Towegishig, elder, Gilbert Legarde, elder, and Donald Auger, executive director of Dilico. from page 7 As you are aware, many people from across Canada and around the world are following implementation of your July 2008 announcement. We understand this ecosystem is very important for the world and its management has global significance. We would like to work with you to strengthen Bill 191 so it will meet the needs

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Deer Lake, MNR establishing new relations over trap lines Chris Kornacki Wawatay News

Deer Lake First Nation and the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) are discussing a new relationship about the maintenance and management of various trap lines in Deer Lake traditional territory.

“We haven’t worked with MNR for a long time in our community,” Gary Meekis, band resource worker in Deer Lake said. “It’s good that we are beginning to re-establish our relationship with them.”

Meekis said that many community members would like to begin construction of cabins along the trap lines because hunting and trapping during the spring and fall is wide spread in

the community. But there is a lot of red tape involved in the current management of the trap lines through MNR.

“We want to update the trap lines so it will be easy for them to go out and learn how to trap.”

– Gary Meekis

“Right now we are working with MNR on ways to make this process (building up the trap lines) easier,” Meekis said.

MNR and Deer Lake are working on a system that will give chief and council authority

to make all decisions regarding the trap lines, Meekis said of the yearlong discussions.

One of the reasons for the new discussions is that many of the trap lines have not been maintained or upgraded in a long time.

“Lots of youth are really interested in trapping,” Meekis said. “We want to update the trap lines so it will be easy for them to go out and learn how to trap.”

In the past trappers were in charge of the trap lines, but Meekis said most of those people are now deceased so it is important someone take charge of maintaining and updating the trap lines.

“We want to start fresh with the MNR and get the trap lines

up to date,” Meekis said.

In the spirit of establishing a new relationship with Deer Lake, the MNR brought special medallions to give to the community during the recent Treaty No. 5 commemorations.

The medallions said, “Honouring the past, acknowledging the present, aiming for the future … Northerners working together.”

The MNR also lent the community trapper tents and sleeping bags to help with hosting the commemoration events.

Meekis said Deer Lake and MNR are working as fast as they can to get an official agreement in place so construction of new cabins and other updates to the trap lines can begin.

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Wahsa funded for 2010/11 Chris Kornacki Wawatay News

Wahsa Distance Education Centre has secured funding from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) for the 2010/2011 school year.

This past winter, Northern Nishnawbe Education Council (NNEC) said it would have to shut down the Wahsa program since it was receiving less money from INAC. NNEC operated on a $20.7 million budget in 2009/2010 and $23.4 million in 2008/2009. But INAC said it was providing $15.6 million for the 2010/2011 school year.

NNEC claims it needs at least $21 million to operate the organization.

But INAC visited Wahsa in mid-April to gather information in order to conduct an in-depth review of the alternative secondary education programming Wahsa provides to remote First Nation communities.

And in an April 30 letter to the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council, INAC announced

that Wahsa’s funding would not be changed for the 2010/2011 school year. But INAC said they still would still like to continue a review with the data gathered in the mid-April visit.

“According to their (INAC) indication to us is that they will continue the same funding arrangement as before,” Josie Semple, spokesperson for NNEC, said.

INAC said once the detailed review is completed a meeting will be scheduled with NNEC to discuss their findings and develop a plan for future data collection and resourcing.

“They still want to do … an assessment,” Semple said.

“And after that there might be changes according to what they’ll find. But I don’t know how much, how this is going to change.”

Wahsa is a provincially accredited and federally funded high school that delivers curriculum through satellite centers in 23 First Nations in the Sioux Lookout area.

Wahsa has about 788 registered students.

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National Aboriginal Day June 21, 2010

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National Aboriginal Day was celebrated at Chippewa Park June 21 in Thunder Bay. The day opened with a sunrise ceremony at 5:30 a.m. Also, speeches were given by delegates like Bruce Hyer, MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry and Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy.

The afternoon followed with a powwow where community members danced in regalia to various drum groups. Later in the evening there was a community feast and live music followed by an evening powwow.

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National Aboriginal Day: June 21, 2010

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Top: The Nishnawbe Gamik Friendship centre in Sioux Lookout held a powwow June 21 to celebrate National Aboriginal Day. Debbie Mishibinijima/Wawatay News

Middle Left: The Four Eagles Whistling women’s hand drum group proudly sang a few hand drums songs at the Aboriginal Day activities in Timmins on June 21st. The Timmins Native Friendship Centre organized the fun-filled afternoon.

Middle Right: Couples have fun dancing the two-step social which ended in round-dance fashion at the Aboriginal Day activities in Timmins June 21. submitted photo

Bottom: Algonquin Avenue Public School held a powwow and traditional events June 15 to mark National Aboriginal Day.

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Congratulations!

The Sandy Lake Board of Education wishes Jordan Meekis Logan Meekis to congratulate all the graduates from Lorraine Munroe Randal Stoney Sandy Lake First Nation.

Creedance Aysanabee Blaise Fiddler

DFC - Grade 12

Casey Fiddler

Jewels Fiddler

Coreen Kakegamic

Jonathon Mckay

Stephanie Fiddler

Clayton Kakegamic

Kristen Mckay

Jemima Meekis

Jules Kakegamic

Virgil Kakegamic

Post Secondary

Brandon Kakepetum Michael Kakepetum

Rhonda Goodman - Early Childhood

Sage Mawakeesic

Brandon McDougall

Annie Kakepetum - Early Childhood

Brittany Meekis

Desire Noon

Tyance Fiddler - Bachelor of Law

Destiny Rae

Luanne Lentz - Master Of Social Work April Sawanas - Bachelor of Science Nursing

Thomas Fiddler Memorial Elementary School K-5 English and Native Language

Donovan Kakepetum - College Access

Layla Fiddler

David B Fiddler - Social and Community Development

Sundown Kakegamic Taraikah Kakegamic

Gabrielle Kakegamic -Social and Community Development

Walker Kakegamic

Armand Kakepetum

Iona Linklater -Social and Community Development

Silas Linklater

Dre Mawakeesic

Ruth Fiddler - Native Language Instructors Program

Drace Meekis

Kaydence Meekis

Carol Linklater - Native Language Instructors Program

Zachary Meekis

Quentin Rae

Catherine Rae - Native Language Instructors Program

Kassidy Dixon

Cherish Fiddler

Darlene Kakepetum - Native Language Instructors Program

Christian Fiddler

Marco Fiddler

Tina Kakepetum - Native Language Instructors Program

Nicole Fiddler

Mallorie Goodman

Jonson Meekis - Native Language Instructors Program

Carlynn Kakegamic Kari Kakegamic

Kienan P. Williams - Bachelor of Science

Starr Kakegamic

Dennis Kakepetum

Bertha Mamakeesic - Early Childhood Education

Jamie Kakepetum

Tyson Mamakeesic

Emily McPherson

Kirsten Meekis

Regina Meekis

Laci Rae

Draven Keeper

Nolan Anishinabie

Shiyanna Beardy

Latoya Bekintis

Tyreese Goodman

Eric Harper

Chad Kakegamic

Rebecca Kakegamic

Trent Kakepetum

Keishaun Keno

Nicholas Linklater

Brayden Meekis

Kaylee Rae

Jenessa Rae

Makayla Strang

Destiny Harper

Jocelyn Rae - Bachelor of Arts

Gabbius Goodman Memorial Learning Centre - Grade 12 Peter Crowe

Adam Fiddler

Jimmy Fiddler

Michelle Fiddler

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John Loonfoot

Mari-Ellen Mamakeesic

Thomas Fiddler Memorial High School - Grade 8 Linka Fiddler

Shania Fiddler

Vaughn Fiddler

Keanu Kakegamic

Randale McPherson Storm McPherson

Paul Goodman

Koreen Kakekagumick

Pelican Falls - Grade 12 Iris Crowe

Veronica Kakegamic

Alanis Meekis

John Meekis

Queen Elizabeth - Grade 12

Peirce Meekis

Serena Fiddler-Rae

Timothy Feeney

Carlean Fiddler

Jolene Anishinabie

Clarissa Crowe

Claire Fiddler

Jewell Kakegamic

Danny Day

Hunter Fiddler

Kara Kakegamic

Errol Rae

Mitchell Fiddler

Breeze Goodwin

Rideau High - Grade 12

Sierra Linklater

Ishmael Meekis

Meagan Anishinabie

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Assimilation highlighted at Keewaywin Conference Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Prescription drug abuse was the first issue brought up by a chief at the 29th Keewaywin Conference.

“Sitting here listening to the reports, I can’t help but think back to my community – to the issues we all face,” said Eabametoong Chief Lewis Nate on the first morning of the 29th Keewaywin Conference. “We talk about prescription drugs, we talk about shortage of housing, infrastructure, so on. When we get together as proxies and delegates, remember what our communities go through. For the past year, we had a lot of things that happened in our community that made me realize how much work we have as leaders in our own communities.”

Nate sees everyday the pain and hurt of the people who are addicted to prescription drugs in his community.

“When we look back at the assimilation of our First Nation people, the churches and the government, we as First People were not recognized,” Nate said. “This is the result. We don’t know how to be a parent – I don’t know how to be a parent because I was in residential school. And the churches, when we talk about the churches being spiritual leadership, they themselves have to smarten up.

When they talk about the bible and they do something else and start backstabbing, how can we believe in the higher spirit. How can our youth go to the word of God when we ourselves are not showing it. We talk about the bible, but its just words. We talk about traditions, what our traditions are, but we don’t do it. We don’t do it ourselves. So the spiritual leaders themselves

have to start helping us out.”

The 29th Keewaywin Conference was held June 8-10 in Sandy Lake, with a break June 9 for the Treaty No. 5 commemoration activities in Sandy Lake and Deer Lake, where the Treaty No. 5 adhesion was signed in 1910.

A group of Sandy Lake children opened the conference with a rendition of O Canada in Oji-Cree, followed by welcoming remarks by NAN Grand Chief Stan Beardy, Sandy Lake Chief Adam Fiddler, Elder Jonas Fiddler, NAN Women’s Council representative Tina Rae and Oshkaatisak Council representative Jessica Edwards.

“This meeting we are having is very important,” Beardy said.

“We will be talking about our rights, we will be talking about our future, we will be talking about our lands and resources, we will be talking about your issues and your priorities.”

Jonas Fiddler spoke about the agreement to share and live in harmony made by Chief Robert Fiddler during the signing of the Treaty No. 5 adhesion in 1910 during his address to the chiefs.

“Not to be greedy, but to share and live in harmony,” Fiddler said. “That is the promise they understood, and that is what he signed.”

Fiddler said the people of NAN are often frustrated because the newcomers are “too greedy” and don’t meet the commitment to share and live in harmony.

“They want control, but that is not fair, that is not the understanding our grandfathers signed to live in harmony and to share and work together,” Fiddler said.

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Sandy Lake Chief Adam Fiddler carries the Sandy Lake flag during the grand entry of the 2010 Keewaywin Conference, held June 8-10 in Sandy Lake.

Congratulations!

We would like to congratulate the graduates of 2010, Good luck in your future endeavours!

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PIKANGIKUM EDUCATION AUTHORITY WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE FOLLOWING EENCHOKAY BIRCHSTICK SCHOOL 2009-2010 GRADUATES. GRADE 12 GRADUATES

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Sarah Keeper Eli King Brent Ombash Isaac Pascal Isaiah Pascal Charles Peters Jeremiah Peters Michael Peters Candace Quill Jared Quill Jay Quill Kelvin Quill Randall Quill Tonya Quill Lynette Strang Emma Suggashie Jepthah Suggashie Jeremiah Suggashie Paige Suggashie Sonny Turtle Tammy Suggashie Dylan Turtle Lindros Turtle Sonya Wesley

KINDERGARTEN GRADUATES K5B - Teacher: Daniel Keeper

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Kavarah Dunsford Cheryl Keeper Dawson Keeper Taylene Keeper Pierre Kejick (Brown) Jarrett King Alyssa Pascal Davis Pascal Mikaia Pascal Revus Pascal Damien Peters Reign Peters Lesnar Quill Riel Quill (King) Kobe Rae Braelyn Strang Prestonson Strang Ashlinn Suggashie Ashton Suggashie Caydace Suggashie Dayanara Suggashie Ilene Suggashie Lorne Turtle Marshall Turtle

Jethro Gray Austin Keeper Benjamin Keeper Ronald Keeper Dallas Kejick Delayna Moose Patrick O’Conner Ashlyn Pascal Mindy Pascal Jenniah Peters Tanisha Peters Christopher Quill Denzel Keno Quill Dexter Quill Drapena Quill Hannah Quill Juila Quill Vontel Quill Alannah Strang Riquel Strang Elijah Suggashie Janellie Myra Suggashie Landon Suggashie Lara Suggashie (Owen) Jordan Turtle Montana Quill

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF OF NORTHERN NISHNAWBE EDUCATION COUNCIL ARE PROUD TO HONOR SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADUATES OF 2010!

Congratulations!

DFC Grads: Sonia Tait Brittany Angeconeb Tanya Barkman Pamela Beardy Michael Mamakwa Tiffany McKay Correen Kakegamic Jonathan McKay Kristen McKay Jemima Meekis

Sachigo Lake Bearskin Lake Sachigo Lake North Caribou Lake Kingfisher Lake Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Sandy Lake Sandy Lake Sandy Lake Sandy Lake

Wahsa Distance Education Centre congratulates it’s graduating class of 2010: Marlene Anderson Elearnor Mamkwa Gershom Beaver Tyler Derouin Pauline Lac Seul Glend Lyon-Ogima Joanne Mainville Steven Wesley Dawn Beardy Maria Beardy Glenda Wesley Amy Winter Marlene Begg Glenda Lyon-Ogima

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Pelican Falls First Nations High School would like to congratulate the graduating class of 2010: Robyn Anderson Rupert Bunting Theoren Chikane Iris Crowe Randall Crowe Dion Fiddler Desiree Gray Veronica Kakegamic Santana Keeper Cherish Meekis Reanne Meekis Tyler Meekis Brendan Oombash

Wapekeka First Nation Lac Seul First Nation Weagamow First Nation Sandy Lake First Nation Deer Lake First Nation Keewaywin First Nation Mishkeegogamang First Nation Sandy Lake First Nation Pikangikum First Nation Deer Lake First Nation Deer Lake First Nation Deer Lake First Nation Cat Lake First Nation

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Housing issue growing: Louttit

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from page 13 “Let us stand together and respect the treaty. We have to have patience.”

Annual reports were delivered by Beardy and Deputy Grand Chiefs Les Louttit, Terry Waboose and Mike Metatawabin followed by a presentation on Economic Environment in NAN territory by Fred Lazar, an associate professor of economics in the Schulich School of Business at York University.

Beardy brought up the signing of the Treaty No. 5 Adhesion at the beginning of his annual report.

“We offered to share the wealth of the land our creator had provided for us,” Beardy said. “We offered to share … our land because that is our way – to share.”

Beardy emphasized that the people of NAN did not give up their lands, their jurisdiction or their right to self governance.

“Our people never gave up the authority over their land or their lives,” Beardy said. “Nor did they give up their right to earn a living or their right to benefit from their land to others.”

Beardy said the NAN communities have the inherent right to determine their path and their governance.

“Look around this assembly and you will see a reflection on the faces of the chiefs the aspirations, the needs and the untapped capacity of our people,” Beardy said.

Louttit brought up the housing and infrastrusture crisis during his annual report.

“All NAN First Nations are now faced with the grim reality (of) the impending cutback of major capital dollars here in

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A group of young Sandy Lake singers opened the conference. the next five years,” Louttit said.

“When it happens it will be NAN First Nations who will suffer the most because of their negative impacts. The government of Canada, through the departments of Indian Affairs and Canada and Mortgage Housing Corporation, is responsible for providing adequate financial resources for First Nations housing programs, however we have not seen an increase in INAC minor capital funding for new housing policies since 1996.”

Waboose brought up the broken promises from Treaty No. 9 and Treaty No. 5.

“We have accepted the rights granted to the settlers for our treaty, but they have not responded in kind,” Waboose said. “Today we live in a legacy of broken promises, broken promises that have made our communities live in conditions that equate to third-world countries.”

Metatawabin brought up the need for better health services in the NAN communities.

“We have a responsibility to improve the health and well being of our people,” Metatawabin said.

Metatawabin also spoke about prescription drug abuse, suicide and the ongoing legacy of sexual abuse perpetuated by Ralph Rowe.

“Since August 2009, NAN has had more disclosures,” Metatawabin said, explaining out of the about 122 people who have disclosed, 23 have committed suicide.

Rowe, a former minister, pilot and Scout leader, worked in 18 NAN First Nation communities between 1971 and 1986.

He has been found guilty of sexual-related charges, which date back to the late 1970s and 1980s, and has served time in prison twice since the 1990s.

An open forum was held on the NAN Strategic Long Term Plan, Innu Nation Grand Chief Mark Nui spoke about economic initiatives in Labrador, an update was provided by Bill Nothing on the NAN governance and leadership selection process, a presentation was delivered on Meno Ya Win Health Services by CEO David Murray and Frank Beardy spoke about the NAN/Ontario Bilateral Update.

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SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:

Under the supervision of the Executive Assistant, the Receptionist/Clerk will provide reception duties and be responsible for the maintenance of internal office procedures and system. IFNA encourages applications from the membership communities and preference will be given to those applicants.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A minimum of Grade 12 and post secondary education in Office Management or Office Administration or equivalent working experience • Ability to communicate in a First Nations language from the Sioux Lookout district is an asset • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills • Be highly motivated and must be able to work under minimal supervision.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks effectively • Maintain a high degree of confidentiality • Knowledge of Microsoft Word • Reliable and punctual • Possess a valid Ontario drivers license

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• The Receptionist/Clerk shall be responsible to, but not limited to the following functions: • Reception duties ie. answer calls, faxing, photocopying and greeting visitors • Open, sort and route incoming mail • Maintain and update filing system and office supply inventory • Type letters, memorandums, and other correspondence • Bind documents • Scan and transmit documents electronically • Assist in travel arrangements • Prepare information packages for Chiefs’ meetings and other meetings • Assist in the maintenance of a clean and orderly office • Other duties as assigned

LOCATION: Sioux Lookout, Ontario.

SALARY: Commensurate with education and experience.

CLOSING DATE: July 16, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.

Please forward resume and cover letter with three references to: Independent First Nations Alliance Attention: Gail Binguis, Executive Assistant P.O. Box 5010 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1K6 Fax: (807) 737-3501 gbinguis@ifna.ca

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JUNE 24, 2010

Treaty 3 seeks investigation changes after shooting KWAYACIIWIN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTRE in Sioux Lookout, Ontario is seeking a

RESOURCE TEACHER Are you an innovative and pro-active educator with an interest in working in the area of Aboriginal education? If so, then consider this terrific opportunity to apply for the position of Resource Teacher with the Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre in Sioux Lookout, Ontario.

You will be working with a small team of highly motivated people on: • Implementing curriculum guidelines and providing professional development for schools • Writing curriculum and unit plans for the elementary program • Travelling extensively into district communities.

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2. Develop and revise Kwayaciiwin curriculum guidelines.

3. Develop comprehensive unit and lesson plans for all subjects.

4. Promote the Kwayaciiwin curriculum and program throughout the schools, communities, and district.

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6. Provide professional development to schools in areas such as balanced literacy, numeracy, learning centres, classroom management, etc.

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In the wake of the shooting of a 39-year old Grassy Narrows woman, Treaty 3 is calling for changes in the way police officer-caused injuries are investigated.

“The OPP are expected to be neutral in situations of domestic disturbances.”

– Simon Fobister

Helen Proulx was seriously injured June 7 in Kenora after police responded to a call of a domestic incident at a home.

Proulx was shot twice by an Ontario Provincial Police officer during what has been described as “an altercation” and was treated at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre.

Treaty 3 Ogichidaakwe Diane Kelly said there was “excessive

force” used in the incident.

Because injuries were sustained when an officer discharged a weapon, the Special Investigations Unit will automatically investigate the incident.

“The OPP are expected to be neutral in situations of domestic disturbances,” said Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister.

“The Grassy Narrows experience is that bias and stereotype is an unwanted intruder in objective decision-making by law enforcement. The OPP are attending a stressful situation and we believe bias and stereotype might play a role in an over-reaction by officers which results in such tragic circumstance as the shooting of Helen Proulx.”

The chiefs of Treaty 3 have demanded this investigation by the SIU be transparent and procedurally fair to all parties involved.

A vigil in Proulx’s honour was held several days after the incident at the site where it took place in Kenora.

To apply: Please submit a resume, two references with written permission to contact, and a covering letter to: Roy Morris, Director Mail: Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre Box 1328 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Fax: (807) 737-2882 e-mail: royamorris@knet.ca A job description may be obtained by calling Roy Morris at (807) 7377373. Criminal Reference and Child Abuse Registry check required.

July 23, 2010

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EDUCATION ADVISOR Under approved policies and procedures and reporting to the KO Director of Operations, the Education Advisor will perform duties related to Local Education Advisory Services for the KO First Nations.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to: • Establishes an operational infrastructure for telemedicine and oversees day-to-day operations and effectively supervises and supports staff.

• Coordinates clinical, technical and organizational teams to plan and implement telemedicine services • Initiates regional projects and assigns team resources • Ensures human resource systems and activities are consistent with Keewaytinook Okimakanak Policy and Procedures and reproducible at a regional level • Project contact with all funding and other partners.

• Achieves approved milestones and objectives and reports on these at meetings with the Executive Director and/or the First Nations Advisory Committee and as required.

• Responsible for timely solutions and issue management related to all aspects of the project.

• Engages stakeholders to migrate the telemedicine model to regional First Nations • Supports the development of an integrated Telemedicine and eHealth application in participating communities

James Thom

Location: Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre, Sioux Lookout

Closing date for applications:

DIRECTOR OF EHEALTH SERVICES

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Duties and Responsibilities include, but not limited to: • To provide advisory and assistance to the Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations • Participate in reviews of services with the Education Authority at the local level in order that the Education Authority is able to evaluate and develop plans for the future • Evaluation of school staff and curriculum taught in cooperation with the Education Authority and/or Chief and Council • Help communities identify their priorities with regard to the provision of educational services in the community • To develop training programs or workshops to assist those Education Authorities function as a board with responsibilities and priorities.

• To assist and provide advice to the Education Authorities to meet their mandate as established and all other education related matters • To provide reports as requested on all assigned duties.

Qualications required:

• Combination of education and experience will be considered • Knowledge of First Nation in Treaty 5 and 9 • Experience in working with boards and/or communities • Good working knowledge of computers • Good writing skills focusing on board policies, proposals and curriculum • An understanding of INAC funding • Ability to travel extensively Please submit your resumé and 3 written references by 4:30 pm on July 9, 2010 to: Hiring Committee Keewaytinook Okimakanak PO Box 340 Balmertown, Ontario P0V 1C0 Fax: 807-735-1383 E-Mail: hiring@knet.ca We are an equal opportunity employer. We thank all interested applicants, however, only those to be interviewed will be contacted.

ASSISTANT TO DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Location: Balmertown Ofce General:

Reporting to the Director of Operations, the assistant will provide support to all Programs staff as required.

Qualications: • Typing and Word processing skills essential.

• Must have excellent verbal and communications skills.

• Must have excellent organizational skills.

• Ability to communicate professionally with the public.

• Ability to work independently.

• Knowledge of internet usage and email.

Duties and Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Mutually agreed upon tasks and assignments will be performed as the need arises for different programs.

• Coordinates special projects and events, ofce activities and committee meetings.

• Makes travel and accommodation arrangements.

Completes employee travel advances, travel expenses, cheque requisitions, purchase orders and other documents for approval by Manager and submission to the Finance Department as required.

• Prepare correspondence as requested.

• Maintains records through ling, retrieval, retention, storage, compilation, coding, and updating.

• Picks up and delivers materials as required.

• Answers telephone, screens callers, relays messages, and greets visitors as required.

• Opens, sorts and screens mail as required.

• Assist other department secretaries as required.

Remuneration will be dependent on work experience.

Interested applicants are invited to apply outlining their qualications, experience, and three (3) references by 4:30 p.m. on July 09, 2010 to: Hiring Committee Box 340, 8 Mine Road Balmertown, ON P0V 1C0 Fax: 807-735-1383 E-mail: hiring@knet.ca We are an equal opportunity employer. We thank all interested applicants, however, only those to be interviewed will be contacted.

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Employment Opportunity Research/Coordinator Summary Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) is currently accepting applications for the position of Research/Coordinator within the Governance Department. The Research/Coordinator works under the Director of the Governance Secretariat. The position will be responsible for Governance Research to ensure that the development and implementation of an approved research program is in support of the final agreement sectoral negotiations including but not limited to the establishment of a governance resource center, creation of Nishnawbe Aski Nation governance and education database, completion of specific research assignments, and management of contracted and joint research projects. The research/coordinator will also be responsible in coordination of Regional Governance implementation.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) is currently accepting applications for the position of Prescription Drug Abuse Strategy Coordinator. The primary purpose of the Prescription Drug Abuse Strategy Coordinator is to develop and implement a NAN-specific Prescription Drug Abuse strategy and to coordinate NAN-wide initiatives that protect the health and well-being of NAN First Nation members based on the universally accepted four pillars of: Prevention; Treatment; Harm Reduction and Enforcement.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) is currently accepting applications for the position of Regional Governance Coordinator within the Governance Department. The Regional Governance Coordinator works under the Director of the Governance Secretariat. The position will be responsible for coordinating and creating awareness on Governance and Education Jurisdiction process at the community level. Coordinate community level workshops on possible Governance and Education Jurisdiction model. Assist in the development First Nation Governance Assessment Tool, and support First Nation Constitutional Development at the community level.

The deadline for applications is 4:00pm EST July 2, 2010. For complete information, including job description, qualifications and submission information, please visit www.nan.on.ca, or contact Ian Beardy, Human Resources Coordinator, at (807) 625-4941 or Sabrina Marion, Human Resources Director, at (807) 625-4948.

The deadline for applications is 4:00pm EST June 30th, 2010. For complete information, including job description, qualifications and submission information, please visit www.nan.on.ca, or contact Sabrina Marion, Human Resources Director, at (807) 625-4948 or Ian Beardy, Human Resources Coordinator, at (807) 625-4941.

Applicants are requested to submit a resume.

The deadline for applications is 4:00pm EST June 30th, 2010. For complete information, including job description, qualifications and submission information, please visit www.nan.on.ca, or contact Sabrina Marion, Human Resources Director, at (807) 625-4948 or Ian Beardy, Human Resources Coordinator, at (807) 625-4941.

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Applicants are requested to submit a resume.

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOR

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Internal/External Posting Permanent Full Time

RESIDENTIAL COUNSELLOR

Internal/External Posting Casual/Part Time Location: Sioux Lookout, ON

SPECIALIZED SERVICES SUPERVISOR

This full time position reports to the Clinical Supervisor. The Mental Health Counsellor will be responsible for providing direct Clinical Intervention and Prevention Services to referred clients in the Child and Family Intervention catchment area of Big Trout Lake.

Residential Counsellors are required for casual and part time positions. Team members will be responsible for carrying out daily programming, facilitating groups, case conferencing and supervision of clients.

Under the direction of the Director of Treatment Services (DOTS), this position provides supervision to the following positions: Special Needs Case Managers, Crisis Coordinator, Agency Trainer and the Clinical Assistant. The Specialized Services Supervisor will be responsible for overseeing the provision of services of the positions identified under the area of specialized services; identifying training needs and providing opportunities for ongoing training of specialized services staff; orientation and initial training to new staff under specialized services; and participating in a multi-disciplinary supervisory team under Nodin Child and Family Intervention Services. This position will act as a resource in crisis management and activate program resources when required.

Location: BIG TROUT LAKE FIRST NATION

QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Social Work/Psychology with relevant clinical/ counselling experience is preferred; • Minimum two years experience in the health services environment; • Specialized courses in specific areas of mental health; • A thorough understanding of the Mental Health Act, Child & Family Services Act and awareness of current issues within Northern and remote Native communities an asset; • Proficiency in clinical assessment skills and client needs; • Experience with video counselling technology an asset; • Travel is a requirement of the position.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY

• Ability to communicate in one of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout Zone is an asset; • Ability to manage a case load independently; • Familiarity with working in acute care situations; • Knowledge of community resources; • Knowledge of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.

Experience with a Client Database (e.g. CIMS), Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) & Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) an asset; • Excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently.

• Experience working with youth, a definite asset.

• Education assistance and training available dependent upon applicant’s qualifications and in accordance with SLFNHA Policies and Procedures.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to: Charlene Samuel, Human Resources Manager Human Resource Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-2969 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com

Closing Date: July 5, 2010 The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance.

However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our website at www.slfnha.com

QUALIFICATIONS • Child and Youth Worker diploma and/or related discipline; • Experience working with youth in a residential treatment setting; • Must have experience and understanding of Native culture, and of the geographic realities and social conditions within remote First Nation Communities; • Work experience in Residential Services with children, adolescents, and families.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY • A thorough understanding of the Child & Family Services Act and Mental Health Act a definite asset; • Ability to communicate in one or more of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout District will be an asset; • Ability to take direction and facilitate individualized treatment plans; • Knowledge of child development and therapeutic modalities in working with youth.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to: Charlene Samuel, Human Resources Manager Human Resource Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-2969 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com

Closing Date: OPEN The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance.

However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our website at www.slfnha.com

Internal/External Posting Permanent Full Time Location: Sioux Lookout, ON

QUALIFICATIONS

• Honours level in the field of Social Services or undergraduate degree with extensive clinical and mental health service experience or social work background is preferred, however a combination of relevant education and experience will be considered; • Demonstrated leadership and supervisory skills in the delivery of clinical mental health services; • Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills; • Possesses excellent team building and networking skills.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY

• A thorough understanding of the Child & Family Services Act, Mental Health Act and awareness of current issues within Northern and remote Native communities; • Ability to communicate in one or more of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout District will be an asset; • Experience and understanding of Native cultural issues, the geographic realities and social conditions within remote Northern First Nation communities; • Innovative problem solving and decision making skills; • Excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to: Charlene Samuel, Human Resources Manager Human Resource Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-2969 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com

Closing Date: July 5, 2010 The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance.

However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our website at www.slfnha.com

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Weenusk’s Mike Hunter received the NAN Elder Award from Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Mike Metatawabin during the 2010 Keewaywin Awards, held June 9 in Sandy Lake.

Missanabie Cree’s Shirley Horn received the Emile Nakogee Award for Leadership during the 29th Annual Keewaywin Awards ceremony.

“It’s a recognition for the really important work that gets done by women, and I accept this not just for me but on behalf of other women,” Horn said after the June 9 awards ceremony in Sandy Lake. “It takes community, and it takes more people than just one person, so that is why I accept this award on behalf of those people.”

Horn, who is currently the chairwoman for the Missanabie Cree First Nation Elders Group, chairwoman of the Elders Group for the North East Regional Chiefs Forum, organizer for the Echoes of the World International Drum Festival, a member of the Mushkegowuk Environmental Research Council and a former chief of her community, said Elders have a job to pass on knowledge as well as being good role models for the youth.

“It is a new role for Elders at

this time in history,” Horn said.

“It is not the same role as our Elders had before us – it has become quite expanded. We have learned to take mainstream education and put it together and bring it together with ourselves and look for the best in everything.”

Horn believes in lifelong learning, having recently graduated from the Fine Arts program with Honours from Algoma University in 2009 at the age of 69.

“I’m still doing the work with the Elders,” Horn said. “I want to do some work with the youth.”

Horn believes the Creator gave her the energy to help others through her leadership role.

“Leadership is many, many roles,” Horn said. “It is very small roles within your community and within your family and it is large roles like at the head of your organizations.

There is someplace in there that everybody can fit. I think it is important if we are to grow as people, if we are to become as the prophecies say the leaders of these continents that we are on, and to teach people how

to live with mother earth, to respect mother earth and how to respect each other.”

Horn encouraged others to not be fearful of taking on more of a leadership role.

“As one of our great philosophers has said, ‘A journey begins by taking the first step,’” Horn said. “I believe that, I believe that very strongly.”

Weenusk’s Mike Hunter Jr. received the NAN Elder Award, James Benson of the SEVEN Youth Advisory Committee accepted the NAN Youth Leadership/Community Involvement Award, Bearskin Lake’s Ester McKay was the NAN Youth Academic Award recipient, Wunnumin Lake’s Roberta Mamakwa was the NAN Youth Athletic Award recipient, North Caribou Lake’s Jordan Quequish received the NAN Youth Cultural Award, Taykwa Tagamou’s Tina Gagnon was the NAN Woman Award recipient, NAN’s Donna Kiecman received the NAN Staff Award and Deer Lake and Sandy Lake received the NAN Community Awards. see next page

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Seven award for all youth from page 18 “I didn’t really expect to get this award,” said Hunter, a former chief of his community who has contributed to the community development of his community and the James Bay coast for many years. “What I learned is all from my father, my grandfather and my uncle.”

Hunter is a founding and current board member of Wawatay Native Communications Society and was a founding board member of Payukotayno Child and Youth Services until 1998.

“I was president for 11 years for Payukotayno Child and Youth Services out of Moosonee,” Hunter said. “When we first started, the chiefs said we were losing too many of our children to (mainstream) society down south so they decided to form their own children’s society. It took us about two years to get it going. There were a lot of obstacles because we had to comply to government regulations.”

James Benson accepted the NAN Youth Leadership/Community Involvement Award for the Seven Youth Advisory Committee.

“This award means a lot to me,” Benson said. “This award is not for ourselves, it is for everybody throughout Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory.”

Benson writes articles, stories and blogs and teaches youth how to do photography and how to make videos through his involvement in SEVEN Youth Media Network. He also works on the Rez Nation Photography Project with Webequie’s Kerina Wabasse, another member of the SEVEN Youth Advisory Committee. Nibinamik’s Elijah Howard Sugarhead and Attawapiskat’s Alison Kaye are

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Missanabie Cree’s Shirley Horn received the Emile Nakogee Award for Outstanding Leadership during the 2010 Keewaywin Awards in Sandy Lake June 9. also SEVEN Youth Advisory Committee members.

Wabasse enjoys writing as well as playing musical instruments and sports such as broomball and hockey; Sugarhead is the local youth coordinator in his community as well as a volunteer with the North-South Partnership; Kaye has graduated from the Office Administrative program at St. Lawrence College and Native Lands Management program at Cambrian College and currently resides in Kingston.

“We want to preserve our language, we want to preserve our culture through multi-media and we want to show the world that we can actually do things,” Benson said. “We want to show the world we have gifts, we have talents, we are creative.”

Benson said the Seven Youth Advisory Committee’s current goal is to get a 24-page issue of SEVEN out to the communities.

“It’s exciting, we’re not forcing ourselves to expand – we are just going with the flow,” he said. “It all takes teamwork, a lot of patience, it all takes a lot

of perseverance and sacrifice.

Being able to work with SEVEN is quite important and I enjoy it.”

Quequish accepted the NAN Youth Cultural Award on behalf of all the young people who are trying to learn their culture and ways of life and to understand the land and where they come from.

“That is where we come from,” Quequish said. “That is who we are. We are the land as First Nations people.”

Quequish, who is a parent of two children and currently a member of the NAN Oshkaatisak Council, a representative of the Ontario First Nations Young Peoples Council and the Ontario representative for the Assembly of First Nations Youth Council, said he follows the traditional culture and teachings one day at a time.

“I follow it within,” Quequish said. “I’m honoured to get this (award). I’m deeply honoured that I work for my people, the Anishinabe, the First Nations.

They really need a youth voice, so I try to be that voice.”

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New health centre combines services in Deer Lake Chris Kornacki Wawatay News

A new health centre in Deer Lake First Nation will put all the health care resources available to the community under one roof.

The $6.9-million project, although not officially open as of yet, had its ribbon cutting opening ceremony during the Treaty No. 5 centennial commemoration in Deer Lake June 9.

“We’re still tying up loose ends,” said Deer Lake councillor Darrel Mawakeesic about the remaining construction needed on the building. “We’re making sure that all the functions are fully operational, like the water system for example,” Mawakeesic said.

“There’s just a few miscellaneous things still under construction,” he said.

Mawakeesic also said that a building inspector still has to come and approve all the renovations before the new centre will be officially open and operational to the community.

The centre is not a new building, but rather a complete makeover to the existing health building including expansion and additions to the structure.

“This is now a big building for our community,” Mawakeesic said.

The benefit of the health centre for the community is that all existing health care resources will now be located in one spot, including all social work and mental health as well as dental too.

“All the health care workers will now be in one place,” said Mawakeesic. “We will be moving all health care services into the building.”

The planning process for the new centre took nearly three years and construction has been ongoing for more than two years. Initially, the project was estimated at $6.5 milion, but some unforeseen necessary upgrades to the building, like the water systems, pushed the costs to $6.9 million.

Mawakeesic said that one of the new services available will be an emergency room.

Also, there are four rooms dedicated to overnight patients, which is also a new service for Deer Lake. Upgrades also included creating more space for the dental examination services.

Services that will be provided at the new centre include NNADAP, NAN crisis team, adult and youth mental health, FASD program, Canada prenatal nutrition program, Healthy Babies, Healthy Children, maternal child health, Home and Community Care program, dental services and all other health services provided by the nursing station.

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Deer Lake First Nation Chief Roy Dale Meekis, left, with Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy during a ribbon cutting ceremony to open the new Health Centre in Deer Lake. The ribbon cutting ceremony took place June 9 during Deer Lake’s Treaty No. 5 100th centennial celebrations. The new Health Centre will combine all the health services available in Deer Lake under one roof, and is waiting for a final inspection from a building inspector before services will be officially available at the new centre.

ᐅᐢᑭ ᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐅᒪᒪᐃᐧᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᐦᑎᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᑭᕑᐃᐢ ᑯᕑᓇᑭ ᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᐢᑯᓂᑲᐣ ᐅᑲ ᒪᒪᐃᐧᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᔭᑭᐣ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᔦᐠ ᒋᐃᔑ ᐅᑭᔭᑭᐣ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ. ᐃᐁᐧ $6.9 ᒥᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᑲᒣᑎᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᐣ, ᔕᑯᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᔑ ᒋᑭᐦᒋ ᐸᑭᓂᑲᑌᐠ, ᐊᔕ ᐃᐧᓂᑯ ᓯᓂᐸᓂᔭᑊ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᔕᐧᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑭ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᐧ ᐸᑭᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑎᕑᐃᑎ 5 ᒥᑕᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭ ᓇᓇᑯᒥᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᓴᑭᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 9 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓯᐨ. ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᓂᑲᑫᐧ

ᑭᔑᑐᒥᐣ ᑲᐃᓯᓭᑭᐣ ᒋᑭ ᑭᔑᐊᓂᑲᑕᒪᐣᑭᐣ. ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂ ᑌᕑᐅ ᒪᐊᐧᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐁᑲ ᒪᔑ ᑲᑭᔑᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᐧ ᐃᔑ ᐅᐢᑭ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐊᐧᐨ. ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐱᓇᒪ ᓂᑲᑫᐧ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒥᐣ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐊᓂᑭᓭᑭᐣ, ᑐᑲᐣ ᓂᐱᐃᐧ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ, ᒪᐊᐧᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ. ᑭᔭᐸᐨ ᓇᓇᐣᑐᐠ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐊᐧᑭᓯᐠ. ᒪᐊᐧᑭᓯᐠ ᑲᔦ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᑭᒪ ᑭᔭᐸᐨ ᑕᐱᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᑫᑭ ᐸᑭᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᒋ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᔦ ᒋᑭ ᐊᐸᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᒪ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐢᑭ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐊᐧᓯᓄᐣ, ᒧᐦᒋ ᐊᐧᐁᐧᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ

ᐁᐦᑕ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐅᒪ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐊᐸᑕᐠ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐊᐧᐠ ᑕᑯ ᑲᔦ ᐁᓇᐣᑭᓂᑲᑌᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐢ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑕᑭᐦᒋ ᒥᔕ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐅᒪ ᓂᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ. ᒪᐊᐧᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ. ᐃᐁᐧ ᑕᐢ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᒪᒪᐃᐧᔭᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᔦᐠ ᒋᐃᔑ ᐅᑯᔭᑭᐣ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ, ᐃᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᒪᒥᓂᒧᐁᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐊᓂᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᔦ ᐃᐧᐱᑎᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧ ᐅᑕᓂᑭᑕᒪᑫᐠ. ᑲᑭᓇ ᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐃᐧ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐠ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᔦᐠ ᑕᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᑕᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐠ, ᒪᐊᐧᑭᓯᐠ

ᐃᑭᑐ. ᑲᑭᓇ ᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᓂᑲᐃᔑᐊᐣᑕᑐᒥᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑ ᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ. ᑫᑲᐟ ᓂᓯᐊᐦᑭ ᑭᐃᓯᓭ ᐁᑭ ᐱᒥᐊᓂᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᐧ ᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᑭᐠ ᐅᐢᑭ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑕᑯ ᑲᔦ ᓂᔓᐊᐦᑭ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᑭᐃᓯᓭ ᒋᐱᒥ ᐊᐧᐁᐧᔑᓂᑲᑌᐠ. ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᐃᐧᓂᑯ, ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᓂᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐃᓇᑭᐣᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᓄᐸᐣ $6.5 ᒥᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᒋᒣᑎᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᔕᑯᐨ ᑕᐢ ᐊᐦᐸᐣ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑭᐊᓂ ᒪᒧᑭᓭᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐊᐁᐧᔑᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᑐᑲᐣ ᓂᐱᐃᐧ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ, ᑭᐊᓂ ᒣᑎᓂᑲᓂᐊᐧᐣ $6.9 ᒥᓫᐃᔭᐣ ᑭᔭᐸᐨ. ᐃᓇᐱᐣ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ B8

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JUNE 24, 2010

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Photos explore water protection Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Featuring over 100 events!

4th Annual Children’s Festival CN Locomotive Train Rides Classic Car Show & Shine Tennis Tournaments St. Andrew’s Fish Fry Blueberry Slo-Pitch Tournament Customer Appreciation BBQ’s Motorcycle Show & Shine Men’s, Ladies’, Youth & Best Ball Golf Tournaments

Beach Volleyball Tournaments Blueberry Bocce Tournament Historical Spirit Walks Fireghter’s Social Rotary Pancake Breakfast Legion Blueberry Dance Party Blueberry Triathlon & Duathlon Sioux Mountain Festival Trade, Craft and Home Show & Much, Much More!

Blueberry Festival T-shirts have arrived! Pick up your T-Shirt today, or place your custom order before July 5.

For more information about this year’s Blueberry Festival, please contact: Lynnette or Leia at the Travel Information Centre ph: (807) 737-3227 or email: festival@blueberrybert.com A big Blueberry thank you to all our generous sponsors.

Platinum Bearskin Airlines, Canadian Heritage, CIBC, CKDR, CN, Dori’s Sewing Studio & Quilt Shop, Johnny’s Fresh Market, Municipality of Sioux Lookout, Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, Ontario Ministry of Culture, Service Canada, Sioux Lookout Chamber of Commerce, Sioux Travel/ Carlson Wagonlit

Gold Alex Wilson Coldstream Ltd., Forest Inn and Conference Centre, TBAY Tel, The Salvation Army, The Sioux Lookout Bulletin, Wawatay Native Communications Society Silver All Occasion Cakes by Althea, Andre Tardiff Agency Ltd., DMTS, Makkinga Contracting and Equipment Rentals, Shibogama First Nations Council, Sunset Inn and Suites, The Wellington Centre, Wasaya

Bronze Business ABC’s, Calvary Baptist Church, Dick & Nellies Bar and Grill, Drayton Cash and Carry, H&M c.a.r.s., Old Mill Dental Clinic, Redshift Multimedia, Sky Care Air Ambulance, Sioux Area Seniors Activity Centre, Sioux Lottery “Makin Millionaires Happen”, Sioux-Per Auto Parts, St. Andrew’s Church, St. Mary’s Anglican Church Women, Subway, Wilson’s Business Solutions Blueberry Friends Chicken Chef, Northern Store

Feeling

The Blues

in Thunder Bay!

The Thunder Bay Community Auditorium, Victoria Inn and Wasaya have partnered to bring you a special “Bluesfest” Package.

Which includes: • 3 nights hotel (July 9-11) • 2 Weekend Passes to Blues Festival for $476.00 + tax (dbl. occupancy)

• Only 20 packages available.

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Call Victoria Inn directly to book the “BLUESFEST” package 1-800-387-3331 For people travelling to Thunder Bay, call Wasaya directly to be eligible to receive 15% OFF Full Fares and 5% OFF advanced purchased Best Fares by quoting TBBP10. Call Wasaya Toll Free 1-866-982-4787

555 West Arthur St, Thunder Bay, Ontario Due to the limited availability of rooms for Bluesfest be advised to book early

The human impact on drinking water is the focus of a photo exhibition on display at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

“You look at the water as you are boating and it is a murky dark brown, rusty coppery looking colour,” said Georjann Morrisseau, a member of the Fort William First Nation Youth Council, describing the water in the rivers and along the Lake Superior shoreline in the Thunder Bay area. “When we went up to Loch Lomond, it was almost clear, a dark dark greeny blue, the way it should be without all those additives and pollution.”

The Youth Water Vision project, on exhibit at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery from June 15 to July 3, was developed by a group of 14 Fort William First Nation youth and adults and a group of Lakehead University researchers to bring young people and others from across the Thunder Bay-Fort William First Nation area together to work on protecting local water resources.

“How can we move forward and protect our water resources and how can we not only look at them as resources but also as life,” Morrisseau said. “When you look at something and humanize it and make it feel like it is a part of your life you might be a little more willing to stop whatever is hurting it.”

Morrisseau encouraged youth and adults from across the area to take care of their land and resources.

“First off, you can never talk enough about recycling,” Morrisseau said. “Don’t pollute, don’t litter, don’t contribute to big industries that pollute. Look

Rick Garrick/Wawatay News

Fort William First Nation Youth Council member Georjann Morrisseau, left, spoke about protecting the water resources in the Fort William First Nation-Thunder Bay area during the Youth Water Vision opening reception June 17 at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. at these big paper mills, obviously, we can’t stop them but there are ways around them.

There are ways we can try to filter our water.”

Morrisseau said the project participants want to raise an awareness of the pollution in the area and the fact that young people are interested in working together to bring about change.

“What we want to portray through this picture (exhibition) is if we can do it, you can do it,” Morrisseau said. “Let us all work together, Thunder Bay and Fort William. We all drink from the same water supply.”

Lakehead University researcher Matthew Roy said all segments of the population need to be involved in decisions about water, not just the experts

who are currently making the decisions.

“You need to involve as many people as possible,” Roy said.

“You need to involve all segments of the population and you need to make efforts to involve the people who are not being involved in the project.”

Roy said the Youth Water Vision exhibit creates a venue where everyone can view the ideas, values and perspectives of the people of Fort William First Nation and talk about what they see.

“It’s a matter of trying to bring all the perspectives together, create a venue where everyone can take a look at the images and kind of make up their own minds and talk about what they see.”

Changes to election code in Attawapiskat turned down Debbie Mishibinijima Wawatay News

A ratification vote to adopt a new custom election code in Attawapiskat was not accepted by chief and council due to poor voter turnout.

According to electoral officer Vaughn Johnson, a meeting of chief and council was held June 11 following the counting of the ballots to discuss the ratification vote.

Ultimately, the leadership of Attawapiskat decided not to accept the ratification vote because only 74 voters of the eligible 2,166 voters cast ballots.

“They had concerns that there is violation of voters’ rights,” Johnson said of chief and council’s decision to not accept the proposed election code.

However, the majority of the 74 voters did vote in favour of adopting the new custom election code.

The ratification vote took place over the course of four days at various sites from June 7 to 10.

The new custom election code included a provision to allow for chief and council to be in office for a three-year term.

The existing traditional election customs do follow a threeyear term, but is not written down.

“The people want to see something in writing to be more comfortable,” Johnson said.

The new code would have also allowed off reserve members within a 600-kilometre radius of Attawapiskat to vote in elections. Timmins off-reserve members would have become eligible to vote.

The present code only allows on-reserve members to vote, which is about 1,150 eligible voters.

The new code would have also allowed off reserve members within a 600-kilometre radius of Attawapiskat to vote in elections.

The present term for chief and council will end on July 7.

A nomination meeting was held June 14 in Attawapiskat to nominate community members for chief, deputy chief and councillors.

Running for chief are John Edwards, Conrad Iahtail and Theresa Spence.

Candidates running for deputy chief are Mike Koostachin, Gerald Mattinas, and Brian Okimaw.

There are 22 community members nominated to the councillor positions.

Vaughn said elections are tentatively set to take place in early July with the existing election code.

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NAMEWAMINIKAN WATERPOWER PROJECT Environmental Assessment, Water Management Plan Resource Stewardship and Facility Development

PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE Namewaminikan Hydro Inc. is proposing to build, own and operate two run-of-river hydroelectric generation stations on the Namewaminikan River, approximately 15km north of Beardmore, Ontario (see map). Namewaminikan Hydro is part of the AXOR Group which specializes in the generation of EcoLogo‘-certied renewable energy, and presently owns and operates similar waterpower stations.

The waterpower facilities will have a combined production capacity of 10 MW and will be operated in a run-of-river fashion, without the creation of a storage reservoir. The proposed facilities will consist of the following components: 2 intakes, a spillway, a weir equipped with ap gates, 2 powerhouses, and 2 tailrace canals.

Adjacent forestry roads in the area will be refurbished. A new 34.5kV power line will be constructed along a power line corridor and forestry roads for a total distance of 23.4km. A new substation will connect the facilities to Hydro One’s 115kV transmission line near Beardmore.

Carol Terry/Special to Wawatay News

The Truth and Reconciliation of Canada (TRC) said it’s first national event June 16-19 in Winnipeg, Man., succeeded in raising the national consciousness of the impacts of residential schools in Canada. The fourday event included many activities such as a powwow, sharing circles, private statement gathering, music performances including Buffy Sainte Marie, cultural displays and traditional ceremonies.

TRC event full of surprises Philip Paul-Martin GUEST COLUMNIST

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or a while it seemed as if the walkers from the James Bay area were lost in the shuffle at the Truth and Reconciliation of Canada’s gathering in Winnipeg, Man., June 16-19. But after people learned how far they came to participate they were impressed with their dedication and effort.

By the second day they could be seen whizzing by on golf carts, transporting Elders to where they needed to go or picking up garbage. They were welcomed by the largely Manitoba contingent of Indians.

I’ve often wondered how our people from back home would be received by the Manitoba Aboriginal community. But really, there was never any

doubt. Provincial borders, it seems, are still a white man’s barrier and not ours.

There was one thing that I hadn’t taken into account.

After coming from a meeting with a lawyer whose firm has taken on thousands of residential school cases I was somewhat surprised. He said many people insist on the opportunity to tell their stories of their experiences at the schools. The money was a secondary issue.

There were more surprises in store as the week went along.

An old nun attended the gathering and a former student remembered her and called out to her by name. At first she didn’t want to admit that was her name. She didn’t recognize him but he never forgot the words she spoke when she beat him.

He repeated those words to her.

The nun broke down and cried and asked him if he believed in God. He said no but hugged her

and told her he forgave her.

Another confused person wandered up to a woman dressed in regalia and asked just how big an impact the schools had on her. She replied in the form of a question.

“In a nutshell they came and took our kids away and destroyed a lot of them. How would you like it if someone showed up at your house and forcibly removed your kids?”

The lady who asked the question turned beet red and turned away.

But the one persistent theme at the gathering wasn’t human.

It came in the beat of a drum.

The people gathered and sang, wept and laughed.

Though the churches took the kids away and tried to replace our drumbeat with the ringing of a church bell, our hearts still kept the time.

And when the time came we gathered, just as we always did in summertime.

They couldn’t take that from us.

Under regulation 116/01 of the Environmental Assessment Act, this undertaking is considered a Category B project and requires an Environmental Screening Report as outlined in the “Guide to Environmental Assessment Requirements for Electricity Projects”.

The proposed undertaking will also require approval under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and an amendment to the Namewaminikan River Water Management Plan to discuss water ow and level requirements. These amendments will be pursued in accordance with Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources’ (OMNR) planning requirements.

The proposed 34.5kV power line is being evaluated in accordance with a Category B project under the Class Environmental Assessment for OMNR Resource Stewardship and Facility Development Projects. A Notice of Completion will be provided to parties who have provided input or requested further notice. Where concerns can be resolved, MNR can proceed to implement the project without issuing a Notice of Completion.

To assist with the environmental screening process, Namewaminikan Hydro has retained the services of KGS and Northern Bioscience, two consultancy groups from Thunder Bay with extensive experience in the eld of environmental studies and renewable energy projects.

YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE At this time Namewaminikan Hydro invites you to attend this Open House regarding the Namewaminikan Waterpower Project.

This meeting will allow Namewaminikan Hydro to present its project, to explain the environmental screening process and to receive inputs from participants on the proposed development. Comments and concerns from stakeholders are important components of the environmental screening process and will be included in the environmental screening report.

Aboriginal Communities Open House:

Tuesday, June 29, 2010, between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek Community Centre, Macdiarmid, Ontario

General Public Open House:

Wednesday, June 30, 2010, between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Beardmore Community Centre Complex, Beardmore, Ontario

For more information on the proposed project and to provide the study team with your comments or to be included in our mailing list, please call us at (514) 846-4000 and mention the name of our project to our receptionist. Written comments can also be sent to: George Visser Project Manager Namewaminikan Hydro Inc. 1950 Sherbrooke St. West, 4th Floor Montreal, Quebec H3H 1E7 Fax: (514) 846-7209 E-Mail: namewaminikanhydro@axor.com Comments and personal information regarding this proposal are collected under authority of the Environmental Assessment Act, Public Lands Act, and Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act to assist AXOR and MNR in making decisions. Comments not constituting personal information as dened by the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, will be shared within AXOR and MNR, and others as appropriate, and may be included in documentation available for public review. Personal information will remain condential unless prior consent to disclose is obtained.

Wawatay Radio Network Program Guide – Weekdays Monday

Time CST

Tuesday

6:00 a.m.

Wednesday

Thursday

Booshoo Corner w/ Bill & Kenina

7:00 a.m.

The Cree Morning Show with Jules Spence The OjiCree Morning Show with Bill Morris and Kenina Kakekayash

8:30 a.m.

People’s Power Hour with Jules and George

9:00 a.m.

North Wind Talkers – Cree Morning Show with George Nakogee

9:30 a.m.

8:30 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

The OjiCree Morning Show with Bill Morris and Kenina Kakekayash

10:30 a.m.

Waachiye and Dedication Show

11:00 a.m.

Cree News at Noon with Jules Spence

11:30 a.m.

OjiCree Noon Show

OjiCree News at Noon with Harry Mawakeesic

12:30 p.m.

11:30 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

12:30 p.m.

12:00 p.m.

1:30 p.m.

8:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m.

8:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Time EST 7:00 a.m.

Music Mix

7:30 a.m.

Friday

Wawatay’s World of Music presents:

Wawatay’s World of Music presents:

Wawatay’s World of Music presents:

Wawatay’s World of Music presents:

Wawatay’s World of Music presents:

I got Dem Monday Blues

Cool Country Tuesday

Hump Day Rock Wednesday

Mix Picks Thursday

Closer to Home Friday

2:00 p.m.

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Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley congratulated Sandy Lake Chief Adam Fiddler and the community of Sandy Lake on the occasion of the 100th commemoration of Treaty No. 5, June 9.

Treaty No. 5 commemorated, not celebrated Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Chief Robert Fiddler’s grandchildren are still waiting for positive results from the Treaty No. 5 adhesion he signed a century ago.

“I don’t think they are really looking at making things better,” said Elder Sidney Fiddler, a grandson of Chief Robert Fiddler, noting the absence of any federal cabinet ministers or the local Member of Parliament at the Treaty No. 5 commemoration as an example. “I guess us people here are used to that.”

Fiddler said he used to notice the poor quality of wood supplies the community was provided with for construction of housing when he was a band councillor in charge of housing.

“I found the material we get rots so fast,” Fiddler said. “The material that we get doesn’t last that long. Some of the houses that were built the first time are not still standing. They all went down already except my dad’s house. We’re trying to keep that house – that was one of the first houses built with plywood.”

Fiddler was happy when his father first received the plywood house.

“I was happy after they built it, it looked really nice,” Fiddler said. “I couldn’t believe an Indian person moving into a house that looked like that.”

Fiddler said the community had been building log homes or homes out of scrap lumber from the old mine site on Favourable Lake up to then.

“My uncle had one the same year,” Fiddler said. “That was one of the good things that happened. We had a plywood house here in Sandy Lake, I think there were three of them built that time.”

But Fiddler also recalls the devastation of his family’s trapline in the Favourable Lake area and the loss of trees throughout the area due to the operations of the Favourable Lake mine.

“They cut those big trees down all over the land, most of our traditional land anyway,” Fiddler said. “Now we are beginning to see some bigger trees around our area now. They are coming back little by little.”

Fiddler adds that his mother’s family was devastated by the destruction of their trapline in the Favourable Lake area.

“Today I am kind of sad over that because there was a lot of mess on that land,” Fiddler said.

“That was my grandfather’s (on his mother’s side) trapline, so it was hard even after a few years after that mine closed down.

There was hardly anything,

the animals were all gone. We stayed living there. I remember when we used to go around there as a child.”

Fiddler noted that a large portion of his community is now living on welfare benefits after the first 100 years of Treaty No. 5.

“It is comforting we are getting welfare here,” Fiddler said.

“That’s about all we are getting.

There are hardly any jobs, just in the summer time for a few people. I don’t think it is even 50 per cent who will be employed for the summer.”

Fiddler said life is difficult for the young people who are now living in Sandy Lake.

“Right now I can’t see them having a good future,” Fiddler said. “Whenever there is a gathering I see so many small children running around. I wonder what they are going to do for their future. It’s sad, it’s very sad to see that. I wonder how many are going to move out to look for something out there.”

Lillian Stoney, Sidney Fiddler’s sister, said her mother always used to talk about the signing of the Treaty No. 5 adhesion.

“But of course I didn’t grow up here – I was in residential school when I was young,” Stoney said. “That really made us lose our traditional ways, going to school and most of us lost our language while we were in school. We had to learn our language again. It’s a good thing we knew our language before we left or we could have never stopped speaking English.”

Stoney emphasized that many children in her community do not speak their language anymore.

“Today people don’t even speak their language because of the residential school,” Stoney said. “When my kids were growing up I was just talking English to them. Now they don’t even understand me when I talk to them in our language.”

The Treaty No. 5 commemoration was held June 9 at the Ghost Point Cultural and Educational Park in Sandy Lake. They were also held in Deer Lake later in the day after flights to the community were cleared after poor weather conditions improved.

“Chief Robert Fiddler saw the treaty as the beginning of a relationship, a relationship with the original inhabitants of this land and the newcomers to this land, he saw it as a relationship where we would come together and we would benefit, we would mutually benefit,” said Sandy Lake Chief Adam Fiddler. see next page

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Time now to develop true relationship: Adam Fiddler from page B4 “He saw it as a means of survival for his people, he saw it as a means of survival for his children, for his grandchildren. He saw an improved life, a continued protected way of life for his people.”

Fiddler explained a reserve was promised to Chief Robert Fiddler for his people when the treaty was signed.

“It was not until 1945 the reserve that was promised to Robert Fiddler was granted,” Fiddler said.

“When you look at the research and you look at the history, what we find is the Crown was reluctant to survey the land that was promised for fear of accidentally giving the First Nations people land that was considered valuable, that had monetary value, that had mineral potential.”

Fiddler described the activities that took place at the Favourable Lake mine while his community was waiting for their promised reserve.

“People came in and made their millions,” Fiddler said.

“They came in and polluted the land and our people benefited from low paying jobs. I also hear stories of people surviving by eating the scraps of food from the garbage dump. Is that the partnership that Chief Robert Fiddler envisioned when he signed the treaty. I say no. It has been said we have nothing to celebrate. It’s been said why should we celebrate 100 years of

broken promises. We are thankful for what we have today, but I believe that vision Robert Fiddler had for his people has not been fulfilled.”

Fiddler said he renews that vision of Chief Robert Fiddler.

“Today I invite our treaty partners, I invite the Crown represented by the federal government and the provincial government, I invite all of you,” Fiddler said. “Let’s go back to that original intent. Let’s work together.

Let’s develop that true relationship. Let’s ignore the past. Let’s turn that page. I see a future where children are happy and smiling.”

Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Chris Bentley said he wanted to echo the remarks of Chief Adam Fiddler.

“Premier McGuinty and the government of Ontario sees a future that is brighter than the past,” Bentley said. “The past we cannot change but we can turn the page. We can turn the page and resolve to work even more closely together, to work even stronger and to find the full promise and the opportunity that lies within communities and lies within each and every one of us.”

Bentley presented a framed letter from McGuinty to the community on the occasion of the Treaty No. 5 adhesion commemoration.

“We value the relationship our province has enjoyed with Sandy Lake First Nation since 1912 when the boundaries of Ontario were extended to

include the lands covered by Treaty No. 5 east of Manitoba,” Bentley said, reading the letter.

“We share a rich history, common goals and the determination to make the best of our community. As we reflect on the achievements of the past, this is also an ideal opportunity for us all to look ahead with pride and optimism to the potential for our shared future. My colleagues and I remain committed to building positive relationships with Aboriginal leaders so that together we can create improved opportunities for First Nations across the province.”

“We share a rich history, common goals and the determination to make the best of our community.”

– Chris Bentley

Nishnawbe Aski Grand Chief Stan Beardy said the Treaty No. 5 adhesion was made under international law 100 years ago.

“In that treaty making the spirit and intent we never agreed to give up our governance,” Beardy said, “we never gave up the right to govern ourselves, we never gave up the title to our land, we agreed to coexist with the settlers, we agreed to share the land and resources from time to time, we also agreed that we would

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Beardy said the Treaty No. 5 commemoration provides an opportunity to look back and see the shortcomings of the understandings raised 100 years ago.

“But it also gives an opportunity to decide where we go from here,” Beardy said, noting that NAN’s treaty partners have used the tools from the treaty to access natural resources and become extremely wealthy while NAN’s community’s have suffered from neglect.

“It is up to us to use the tools, the treaty, to create the wealth that we need for our future generations,” Beardy

said. “We must do everything we can starting today to make sure the treaty is implemented as outlined in the Constitution of Canada. We have every right to access the wealth that comes from our land. We have every right to demand a share of what the governments are taking from us at the present time.

Going into the future we must ensure that happens.”

Regional Chief Angus Toulouse, Ontario New Democrat Party leader Andrea Horwath and Kenora-Rainy River MPP Howard Hampton also spoke during the Treaty No. 5 commemoration, as did Leigh Jensen, acting regional director general Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, on behalf of

INAC Minister Chuck Strahl.

The Treaty No. 5 commemoration also featured a parade and flag raising by the Canadian Rangers, a headdress ceremony by Sandy Lake Deputy Chief Bart Meekis and Josias Fiddler, traditional blessings by Jonas Fiddler, Sidney Fiddler and Sanadius Fiddler and the singing of O Canada and the Lord’s prayer in Oji-Cree as well as a square dancing demonstration by students of Thomas Fiddler Memorial School.

Jensen also presented medals and gifts to Chief Adam Fiddler and draped a flag over his back, just as was done back in 1910 when Chief Robert Fiddler had a flag draped over his shoulders and promises were made.

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The purpose of the forest management plan amendment is to establish a primary road corridor (32.1km) from kilometer 6 on the Camp 81 road north of Highway 17 up to the Hanson Lake area and then west to Highway 11. Within the current operating term (April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2011) LNFMI is proposing to construct the initial 15.4 kilometers from the Camp 81 Road. The Hanson Lake corridor was initially presented to the public as part of the Long-Term Management Direction for the Lake Nipigon Forest 2011-2021 forest management plan that is currently in development. LNFMI has proposed an acceleration of road planning to gain primary access to timber in both the current plan and future plans for improved hauling efficiencies and access for completing silviculture treatments during the current operating term.

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Land claims process creates confusion for Flying Post Debbie Mishibinijima Wawatay News

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The relatively unknown First Nation has been garnering attention recently in northern Ontario due to a treaty land entitlement (TLE) process that chief and council are pursuing.

A cultural misunderstanding first began when a letter written

by Jason Batise, technical services advisor of Wabun Tribal Council was sent to the City of Timmins to provide input into the municipality’s official plan.

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Batise said the city of Timmins is within the geographic boundaries of Treaty 9.

“The entire member nations of the Wabun Tribal Council are signatory to this treaty and therefore must be considered during any development of the land, be it residential or commercial,” Batise said in the letter.

“Timmins has seen fit to expand its municipal boundary to encompass a vast tract of our First Nations traditional territory. Activities, especially industrial activities such as mining and forestry, which are being contemplated within the municipal boundary, will still be required to complete full and meaning consultation and

accommodation with the First Nations.”

Chief Murray Ray of Flying Post First Nation said he would like to know what the City of Timmins is doing in the forest.

“That is our traditional territory and we might have a problem with something that they may do,” Ray said.

The territory encompasses a 23 square mile tract of land, west of the city of Timmins municipal boundary within the Enid Township.

In Batise’s letter, he pointed out that Flying Post has no infrastructure and to develop its current location would be impractical.

“We told the city planner that Flying Post is looking at moving part of the reserve closer to the city limits,” Ray said.

The proposed area the chief had in mind to relocate is a half square mile in size near the junction of Malette Road and Highway 101.

“We can try to move it down near the highway that was our thought process. It was a dream,” Ray said.

He said the TLE application was just submitted to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC).

The Wabun Tribal Council letter sparked concerns for city councillor Pat Bamford. He said the city council had not been involved in the planning for a new reserve and that council was just learning of the intention for a new reserve.

“One of our councillors noticed that in the correspondence and decided to bring it to the council to discuss the implications of having a reserve within the city of Timmins,” said Mark Jensen, city director of development and community services.

“It is more or a less a reaction because we have not dealt with these things before. Establishing a reserve isn’t something we have done,” Jensen said.

However, the First Nation is working to bridge understanding of the land claim process.

“Things got out of hand there.

It was just miscommunication,” Ray said.

Andre Robichaud is the intermediate planner of development services for Timmins. He has been assigned the task of conducting research.

“I contacted INAC about the creation of a new reserve. It is a very long process. It should take at least a minimum of two years after an actual plan has been developed for a new reserve, outlining a strong rationale as to why a new reserve is required,” Robichaud said.

Jensen said the idea of the new reserve is new to many people in the area and “is obviously challenging for a lot of people.”

“That is our traditional territory and we might have a problem with something that they may do.”

– Murray Ray

“There is a lot of unknowns to the process. We just want to get more familiar of going through that process,” Jensen said.

He adds: “We can figure it out and work together to that process.

“The key is having everyone work together to get an understanding of what we can and cannot do.”

Robichaud will continue with the research required and advise the council in a report or brief in the next couple of months.

Ray said the process is just beginning and there’s still a way to go.

“We are a long way from talking to Timmins,” Ray said. “We have to negotiate with Canada and Ontario.”

He estimated that the TLE process could take five to seven years.

“We are not moving next week,” Ray said.

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ᒪᒥᓄᐡᑲᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐨ, ᐅᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᔑᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᓇᑯᒧᐃᐧ ᒥᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ, ᒥᒋᑲᐣᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐨ ᐁᐢᑐᕑ ᒪᐠᑫ ᑭᐃᓀᓂᒪᑲᓂᐧᐃ ᒋᒥᓇᑲᓂᐧᐃᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᑲᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᓱᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐨ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐨ, ᐊᐧᓇᒪᐣᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᕑᐊᐱᕑᑕ ᒣᒣᑫᐧ ᑭᐃᓀᓂᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧ ᒋᒥᓇᑲᓂᐃᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᐅᒣᑕᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐨ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐨ, ᐊᐧᐃᐧᔦᑲᒪᐠ ᒐᐧᕑᑎᐣ ᑭᐧᑭᐧᐡ ᑭᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᐧᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐨ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐨ. ᑕᑲᐧ ᑕᑲᒪᐤ ᑲᐅᒋᐨ ᑎᓇ ᑲᐣᔭᐣ ᑭᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐃᑫᐧ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐨ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐨ, ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑲᐅᒋᑎᐯᐣᑕᑯᓯᐨ ᑕᐧᓇ ᑭᐨᒪᐣ ᑭᒥᓇ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐨ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐃᑲᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓀᑲᐃᐧᓴᑲᐃᑲᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᒥᓇᐊᐧᐠ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐣᑐᒋᐃᓀᑕᓇᐸᐣ ᒋᒥᓂᑯᔭᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒥᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐦᐊᐣᑐᕑ, ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧᐸᐣ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᔑᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᐊᐃᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᐁᐊᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᒉᒥᐢ ᐯ ᐃᓀᑫ ᒥᔑᓄᔭᑭ. ᐣᑕᑕᒥᑲᐠ ᐃᑯ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑫᑯᐣ ᐣᑭᐅᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᓂᒥᔓᑦ ᒥᓇ ᓄᑯᒥᐢ ᑲᑭᐱ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐃᐧᔑᐊᐧᐨ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐦᐊᐣᑐᕑ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᒋᑐᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᐁᑲᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑭᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᐅᐡᑭᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᐯᔭᑯᑌᓄ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔑᐃᐧᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ 1998 ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᐳᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐨ ᐃᒪ. ᐯᔑᑯᔕᐳᔭ ᐣᑭᐱᓂᑲᓂᐡᑲᒪᑫ ᐃᒪ ᐯᔭᑯᑌᓄ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔑᐃᐧᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᒧᓱᓂᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐦᐊᐣᑐᕑ. ᐊᐱ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᒪᒋᑕᔭᑭᐸᐣ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐸᓂᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᐅᓴᑦ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐣᑕᐊᐧᔑᔑᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᐁᑭᐱᐊᐧᓂᐦᐊᑭᑕᐧ ᐃᓇᐱᐣ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ B8

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ᒥᐢᓯᓇᐱ ᑲᐅᒋᐨ ᔑᕑᓫᐃ ᐦᐊᕑᐣ ᑭᒥᓇᑲᓂᐃᐧ ᐁᒥᐣ ᓇᑯᒋ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐨ ᐁᐅᒋ ᓇᓇᑯᒪᑲᓄᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᓂᔑᑕᓇᓴᑲᓱᔕᐸᐧ ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲ ᐊ ᐧ ᐸ ᑕ ᐦ ᐃ ᐊ ᐧ ᓄ ᐊ ᐧ ᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᓇᓇᑯᒥᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧᑲᐡᑭᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᐁᐅᒋ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᓯᓇᑯᑕᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᒋᓀᑕᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐱᒥᐃᐧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᑕᐡ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᑯ ᐁᑕ ᓂᐣ ᑲᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑎᓱᔭᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐅᑕᐱᓇᒪᐣ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐱᑯ ᑲᔦ ᑯᑕᔭᑭᐠ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐅᒋᐅᑕᐱᓂᑫᑕᒪᐊᐧᑲᐧ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐦᐊᕑᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᓴᑭᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 9 ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᓇᑯᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓀᑲᐃᐧᓴᑲᐃᑲᓂᐠ. ᒪᒪᐤ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᐊᓂᐡ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐯᔑᑯᑐᒋᑲᑌᓯᐣ, ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᐅᒋ ᐅᑕᐱᓇᒪᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᓇᓇᑯᒥᑯᐃᐧᐣ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐠ ᐁᐅᒋᐅᑕᐱᓂᑫᑕᒪᐊᐧᑲᐧ. ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐦᐊᕑᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫ ᒥᐢᓯᓇᐱ ᐅᒪᐡᑭᑯᐠ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ ᑲᐅᑭᐧᓄᐊᐧᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ ᑲᐅᑭᐧᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐊᐧᐸᓄᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑐᐊᐧᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᐅᓇᑐᐣ ᒥᓯᐁᐧᐁᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᒪᑌᐧᐦᐃᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒣᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ, ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐃᔑᑕᑭᐧ ᒪᐡᑭᑯᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑭᐱᐅᑭᒪᑲᓂᐃᐧᐸᐣ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ ᐃᓇᐸᑎᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᔭᓂ ᐊᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᐱᐃᔑ ᑲᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᐃᔑ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐣ. ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᐁᓂᔑᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᒋᔭᓂ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐦᐊᕑᐣ. ᐊᓂᐡ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᐣ ᒋᐃᓯᓭᓂᐠ ᐅᑎᓇᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᐱᐨ ᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔭᐡ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᐃᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐸᐣ. ᑭᑭᔭᓂ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒥᐣ ᒋᐅᑕᐱᓇᒪᓱᔭᐠ

ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᒋᐃᔑᒪᒪᐃᐧᓇᒪᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑎᐱᓇᐁᐧ ᒋᐃᔑᐊᐸᒋᑕᒪᓱᔭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐃᔑ ᑲᑫᐧᑭᑕᐸᒋᑐᔭᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᐃᔑ ᒥᓄᓭᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐦᐊᕑᐣ ᐅᑌᐯᐧᑕᐣ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐃᑯ ᑲᐱᒪᑎᓯᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᑭᐱᒥ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᓯᓇᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ, ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᐅᑭᑭᔑᑐᓇᐸᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᒋᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐠ 2009 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 69 ᑲᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀᐨ. ᒥᐱᑯ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐁᔑᐱᒥᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᑲᐧ ᓂᒋ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐦᐊᕑᐣ. ᓂᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᐠ ᑲᔦ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ. ᐦᐊᕑᐣ ᐅᑌᐯᐧᑕᐣ ᒪᓂᑐᐣ ᐁᑭᒥᓂᑯᐨ ᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐃᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ. ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᔑᓇᐧᔦᑲᐣ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐦᐊᕑᐣ. ᓇᐱᐨ ᐊᑲᓭᐣᑕᑲᐧᓄᐣ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑭᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑭᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑭᒋᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᔭᒪᑲᓄᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᔭᒪᑲᐠ ᑭᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᑲᐠ. ᐅᐣᒋᑕ ᐱᑯ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑫᑯᐣ ᒋᑭ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᐸᐣ. ᐣᑎᓀᑕᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑭᒋᓀᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐃᐧᑲᑫᐧᑲᐡᑭᑐᔭᐠ ᒋᐅᐱᑭᔭᐠ ᑲᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᔭᐠ, ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᑌᐯᐧ ᒋᑭᔭᓂᔑᓇᑯᓯᔭᐠ ᐊᔕ ᑲᑭᐱᐃᔑ ᓂᑲᓇᒋᒥᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑯᔭᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᑎ ᐃᓀᑫᑲᒥᐠ, ᐁᐧᑲ ᒥᓇ ᒋᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᑭᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᐃᔑᐱᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ, ᒋᑲᓇᑌᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐦᑭᓂ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᒋᑭᑌᓂᒥᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᐦᐊᕑᐣ ᑭᔕᔑᑭᒥᐁᐧ ᐁᑲ ᒋᔕᑫᐧᓂᒧᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᐃᐧᐅᑕᐱᓇᐠ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ. ᐊᑎᑲ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐅᑭᒋ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫ ᑲᑭᐃᑭᑐᐸᐣ, ᒪᐦᒋᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᒋᓭ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᐊᐣᒋᑕᑯᑭᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐦᐊᕑᐣ. ᐣᑌᐯᐧᑕᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐃᑭᑐᐃᐧᐣ, ᓂᒪᐡᑲᐁᐧᐣᑕᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐣᑌᐯᐧᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ. ᐃᐧᓇᐢᐠ ᐁᐅᒋᐨ ᒥᔐᐣ ᐦᐊᐣᑐᕑ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᑭᒥᓇᑲᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑭᒋᐦᐊ ᓇᓇᑯᒧᐃᐧ ᒥᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ, ᒉᒥᐢ ᐯᐣᓴᐣ ᓭᐱᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ

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JUNE 24, 2010

ᐅᐢᑭ ᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐅᒪᒪᐃᐧᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᐦᑎᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋ ᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓂᐠ B1

ᒪᐊᐧᑭᓯᐠ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐣ ᑫᐅᐢᑭ ᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᐊᐦᐃ ᐸᐸᔑ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᑲᐃᔑ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᐦᐊᑲᓂᐃᐧᐨ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᐅᐁᐧ ᓂᑭ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᔭᓯᒥᓇᐸᐣ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᑲᔦ, ᓂᐊᐧᓄᐣ ᓂᐯᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐣ ᑫᐃᔑ ᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᑯᓯᐠ ᑲᑭᒋᐃᐧᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᒋᓇ,

ᐊᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᔦ ᑲᐅᐢᑭᔭᒪᑲᐠ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒪ ᐊᑎᑯᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᐠ. ᐊᒥᐦᐃ ᑲᔦ ᑲᐃᐧ ᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐁᐃᐧ ᐅᐢᑭᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐃᔑ ᒪᓇᐱᑕᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᒥᓄᐊᐧᔑᐠ ᑫᐃᔑ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᐦᐃᐣᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ. ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑕᔭᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓄᑫᐊᐧᐱᓀᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐊᓂᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐠ, ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑲᑭᒋᓭᓇᓂᐊᐧᓂᐠ

Review

ᒪᒪᐤ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐁᐧᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ, ᐊᐱᓄᒋᔕᐠ ᑲᒪᑲᐱᓀᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓂᑕᐃᐧᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᐢᑭᑲᐊᐧᓱᐠ ᑲᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐃᐧᐣᑕᐧ ᑫᐃᓇᐣᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᐊᐱᓄᒋᔕᐠ ᑲᐊᑲᔐᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐣᑕᐧ, ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐅᒪᒪᒥᒪᐠ ᑲᒪᑲᑎᓯᓂᐠ ᐅᓂᒐᓂᔑᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᑲᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᐅᑕᑯᓯᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐣᑕ ᐅᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ,

ᐃᐧᐱᑎᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᔦ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧᑲᒥᐠ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᑕᐢ ᑲᐃᐧ ᒪᒪᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᑭᓇ ᒪᐢᑭᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᑕᐅᐣᒋ ᒥᓄᓭ ᒋᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐅᑫᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᒪ ᓂᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ, ᒪᐊᐧᑭᓯᐠ ᐃᑭᑐ.

REVIEW OF DRAFT FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN: INFORMATION CENTRE LAC SEUL 2011-2021 FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), McKenzie Forest Products Ltd. and the Sioux Lookout Local Citizens Committee (LCC) invites you to review and comment on the 2011-2021 Draft Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Lac Seul Forest.

The Planning Process The FMP takes approximately 2 years to complete. During this time, ve formal opportunities for public and Aboriginal involvement are provided. The third opportunity (Stage 3) for this FMP occurred on February 25, 2010 when the public was invited to review and comment on operations for the rst and second terms of the plan. This “Stage 4” notice is to: • Invite you to review and comment on the draft forest management plan, and.

• Request contributions to the background information to be used in planning.

Comments from the public will be considered in revisions to the draft forest management plan.

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Meetings with representatives of the planning team and the local citizen’s committee can be requested at any time during the planning process. Reasonable opportunities to meet planning team members during nonbusiness hours will be provided upon request. If you require more information or wish to discuss your interests with a planning team member, please contact one of the individuals listed below: Alan Brailsford, R.P.F. Green Forest Management Inc. P. O. Box 428, HWY 516 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1A5 Phone (807) 737-2522 ext 29 Fax (807) 737-2329

Arne Saari, Area Forester MNR Sioux Lookout District P.O. Box 309, 49 Prince Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1A6 Phone (807) 737-5053 Fax (807) 737-1813

ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᓇᑯᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᑲᓂᓯᑕᐁᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐃᐧᑲ ᐁᐡᑲᐧᓭᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ

Legend

How to Get Involved The Draft Forest Management Plan and the draft forest management plan summary will be available on the MNR public web site at https://ontario.ca/ forestplans and at the McKenzie Forest Products Ltd. ofce at the location noted below, during normal ofce hours for a period of 60 days (August 5, 20010 to October 4, 2010). The Ontario Government Information Centre in Toronto and the appropriate communities of the MNR region, district and/or area ofces provide internet access. To assist you in the review and to provide the opportunity to ask questions, an Information Centre will be held at the following location:

ᕑᐃᐠ ᑲᕑᐃᐠ/ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᒉᒥᐢ ᐯᐣᓴᐣ, ᐅᒪ ᓭᐱᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᒪᒥᓄᐡᑲᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐨ, ᐅᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐸᐸᒥᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᒥᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᑲᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐊᑲᓄᐨ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧᑲᐡᑭᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᔕ ᓂᔑᑕᓇᓴᑲᓱᔕᐸᐧ ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐊᐧᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᓇᓇᑯᒥᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧᑲᐡᑭᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ.

Bob Starratt, LCC Representative P.O. Box 115 Hudson, ON P0V 1XO Phone (807)582-3535

During the planning process there is an opportunity to make a written request to seek resolution of issues with the MNR District Manager or the Regional Director using a process described in the Forest Management Planning Manual (2009). The last possible date to seek issue resolution with the MNR Regional Director is November 2, 2010.

Stay Involved A nal opportunity to inspect the approved plan before it is implemented will take place during the inspection of the MNR-approved forest management plan (Stage 5) which is tentatively scheduled for January 7, 2011 to February 7, 2011.

The approval date of the FMP is tentatively scheduled for January 7, 2011.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is collecting your personal information and comments under the authority of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. Any personal information you provide (address, name, telephone, etc.) will be protected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, however your comments will become part of the public consultation process and may be shared with the general public. Your personal information may be used by the Ministry of Natural Resources to send you further information related to this forest management planning exercise. If you have questions about use of your personal information, please contact Glen Niznowski at 807-737-5037.

ᐁᐧᑎ ᐁᐧᒥᑎᑯᔑᐃᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔑᐃᐧᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ. ᓂᔓᔭᑭ ᐣᑭᑕᔑᑲᒥᐣ ᒥᓂᑯᐠ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᑭᔭᓂᐃᓯᓭᐠ ᒋᒪᒋᑐᔭᐠ. ᑭᒥᔑᓇᑎᐣ ᑫᑯᐣ ᑫᑭᐅᒋ ᑲᑫᐧ ᑭᐱᐡᑲᑯᔭᐠ ᐊᓂᐡ ᐁᑭᐃᑭᔭᐠ ᒋᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᒪᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᐅᐣ ᐅᑐᓇᔓᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᒉᒥᐢ ᐯᐣᓴᐣ ᐅᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐸᐸᒥᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᒥᓂᑕᐧ ᓭᐱᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᒪᒥᓄᐡᑲᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ. ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᐣᑭᒋᓀᑕᒥᐦᐃᑯᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᐣᓴᐣ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᒥᓂᑯᔭᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᓂᐣ ᐃᑯ ᐁᑕ ᓂᓇᐃᐧᐟ, ᑲᑭᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐊᐃᐧᔭ ᐅᒪ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᑲᒥᑲᐠ ᐁᐅᒋ ᒥᓇᑲᓂᐃᐧᐨ. ᐊᒥ ᐁᑐᑕᐠ ᐯᐣᓴᐣ ᐁᒪᓯᓇᐦᐊᑭᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ, ᐁᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᑫᐱᐦᐃᑫᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐣ ᒋᓂᑕ ᒪᓯᓇᑭᓯᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒋᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᔑᐸᐸᒥᓯᐨ ᓭᐱᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐃᔑᐊᓄᑭ ᕑᐁᐢ ᓀᔑᐣ ᒪᓯᓇᑭᓯᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑯᐨ ᑫᕑᐃᓇ ᐊᐧᐸᐢ ᐁᐧᐱᑫᐠ ᐁᐅᒋᐨ, ᒥᐦᐃᒪ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᔑᑕᑭᐧᐨ ᓭᐱᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᒪᒥᓄᐡᑲᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ. ᓂᐱᓇᒥᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐨ ᓫᐊᔾᒐ ᐦᐊᐊᐧᕑᐟ ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᔓᑲᐣᐦᐁᐟ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐅᒋᐨ ᐊᓫᐃᓴᐣ ᑫᔾ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᒪᒥᓄᐡᑲᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᔑᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐠ. ᐊᐧᐸᐢ ᐅᒥᓀᐣᑕᐣ ᐁᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑫᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑭᑐᒋᑲᑫᐨ ᑭᑐᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐁᒣᑕᐁᐧᐨ ᑐᐦᐊᐣ ᑲᐸᐸᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐅᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐸᐸᒪᑫᐧᐸᐦᐃᑫᐃᐧᐣ, ᔓᑲᐣᐦᐁᐟ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒧᒋᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑐᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᑫᔾ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᑭᔑᑐᐣ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᐣ ᓭᐣᐟ ᓫᐊᕑᐃᐣᐢ ᑲᐧᓫᐃᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᓂ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᐃᐧᓂ ᐅᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑫᑦᑊᕑᐃᔭᐣ ᑲᐧᓫᐃᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑭᐣᐢᑎᐣ ᐃᔑᑲᐯᔑ. ᓂ ᐃ ᐧ ᒪ ᓇ ᒋ ᑐ ᒥ ᐣ ᐣᑎᔑᑭᔐᐧᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ, ᓂᐃᐧᒪᓇᒋᑐᒥᐣ ᐣᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᒪᓯᓇᑌᓯᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ

ᒥᓇ ᐁᐃᐧᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐊᑭᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᑫᓂᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᐁᑲᐡᑭᑐᔭᐠ ᒋᑐᑕᒪᐠ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᐣᓴᐣ. ᓂᐃᐧᐊᐧᐸᑎᓂᐁᐧᒥᐣ ᐁᐊᔭᔭᐠ ᒥᓂᑯᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᐁᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᔭᐠ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᒋᐊᐃᑐᑕᒪᐠ. ᐯᐣᓴᐣ ᐃᑭᑐ ᓭᐱᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᒪᒥᓄᐡᑲᒪᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᐃᐧᑲᑫᐧ ᐅᔑᑐᓇᐊᐧ 24 ᒋᑕᓱ ᐸᐸᑭᑭᓂᑲᓀᔭᓂᐠ ᓭᐱᐣ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓂ ᒋᔑᐸᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ. ᒥᑐᓂ ᑕᐡ ᒋᑫᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ, ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᔦ ᒋᑲᑫᐧ ᒥᔕᑐᔭᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐱᒪᓄᑲᑕᒪᐠ, ᒥᐱᑯ ᐁᔑᐸᐱᒪᓄᑭᔭᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᐣᓴᐣ. ᓂᐊᐧᐃᒋᐦᐃᑎᒥᐣ, ᓂᑲᑫᐧᔕᔑᐯᐣᑕᒥᐣ, ᒥᓇ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ. ᑭᒋᓀᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐅᒪ ᑲᑕᓇᓄᑭᔭᐣ ᓭᐱᐣ ᐊᒋᒧᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᑲᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᓇ ᓇᐱᐨ ᓂᒥᓀᐧᑕᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑐᑕᒪᐣ. ᑭᐧᑭᐧᐡ ᐅᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᓇᑯᒧᐃᐧ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᐃᐧ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂ ᒥᓇ ᑫᐃᔑ ᓇᓂᓯᑕᐁᐧᑕᐠ ᐊᐦᑭᑲᐠ ᑲᐊᔭᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑲᐱᐅᐣᑕᑲᓀᓯᐨ. ᐊᓂᐡ ᐊᒥᐦᐅᒪ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑲᑭᐱᐅᐣᒋᔭᐠ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᐧᑭᐧᐡ. ᐊᓂᐡ ᐊᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᐁᔑᐱᒪᑎᓯᔭᐠ. ᑭᓇᐃᐧᐟ ᑲᓂᑕᒪᑲᓀᓯᔭᐠ. ᑭᐧᑭᐧᐡ ᓂᔑᐣ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐣ ᐅᑕᔭᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐃᔑᑕᑭᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᐢᑭ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐅᒋᐱᒧᒋᑫᑕᒪᑫ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐃᒪ ᐃᔑᐸᐸᒥᓯ ᑲᒪᒪᐃᐧᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒥᑐᐊᐧᐨ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐁᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᑕᓱᐯᔑᑯᑭᔑᑲ. ᐣᑌᐦᐃᐠ ᐣᑐᒋᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᐣ, ᐃᑭᑐ ᑭᐧᑭᐧᐡ. ᓇᐱᐨ ᑕᐡ ᐣᑭᒋᓀᑕᐣ ᑲᐅᑕᐱᓇᒪᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒥᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ. ᒥᑐᓂ ᑲᔦ ᐣᑭᒋᓀᑕᒥᐦᐃᑯᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᑕᓄᑭᒪᑲᐧ ᐣᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᒪᐠ, ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ, ᐅᓂᑕᒪᓀᓯᐊᐧᐠ. ᐅᑭᓇᑕᐁᐧᓂᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᑫᑲᓄᒋᑫᑕᒪᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᓂᐨ, ᓂᐣ ᑕᐡ ᐃᒪ ᐣᑎᔑᑲᑫᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫ.

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