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Walking With Our Sisters exhibit opens in Thunder Bay Rick Garrick

Wawatay News

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About 1,800 moccasin vamps are on display at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. The vamps, created by people across the continent and overseas, are part of the Walking With Our Sisters art exhibit, which honours missing and murdered indigenous women. The exhibit will run until Oct. 12.

Two stories about missing or murdered women or girls were featured during first day of the Walking With Our Sisters exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

“It wasn’t until after I had mailed away my vamp (for the Walking With Our Sisters exhibition) that I found out a woman I knew who had gone missing was a family member,” said Sandra Munro on the first day of the Sept. 19-Oct. 12 exhibition. “She would have been my son’s great aunt on my father’s side. Her name was Viola Isabella Panacheese.”

Panacheese, whose case is on the www.unsolvedcanada.ca website, went missing in Sioux Lookout at the age of 42. She was last seen walking along Lakeshore Avenue in 1991.

“Her daughter had reported her missing three days after searching around and looking for her,” Munro said. “This was in August 1991, 23 years ago. To this date they have not heard from her. There are no leads, there is nothing. Viola had seven children, five girls and two boys.”

Sharon Angeconeb, vice-principal at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School, shared a story about her grandmother’s sister Rovena, who was among the first children sent to residential school from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug.

“Shortly after Rovena left her home, her parents received word she had gotten sick and died,” Angeconeb said. “It was all they were told. They never had a chance to lay their daughter to rest and to this day they still do not know where she is buried.”

Angeconeb was pleased to see the circle of vamps in the centre of the Walking With Our Sisters exhibition that is dedicated to the girls who went missing or were murdered at residential school.

“Today I am blessed to have five granddaughters,” Angeconeb said.

“The youngest just turned one this summer and her name is Rovena.

Even though we didn’t know the first one, we have not forgotten her, so we keep carrying on her memory.”

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Matawa looking at inter-community fibre optic network Rick Garrick

Wawatay News

Matawa First Nations is looking to develop a broadband fibre optic network for their five remote fly-in communities in the Ring of Fire area.

“This project is really about the communities and about the membership at the community level opening up a new world to the benefits that we take for granted sometimes in the urban areas,” said Jason Rasevych, Matawa’s economic development advisor. “There would be advantages to health services through telemedicine and video counselling. There would be advantages for economic development because we would have employment and training that could be linked to video training and online training tools.”

Rasevych said the schools and learning centres within the Matawa communities would also benefit from a higher speed fibre optic network.

“The remote communities of Matawa — Webequie, Nibinamik,

Neskantaga, Eabametoong and Marten Falls — are looking to connect to an inter-community fibre optic network that would also see a connection from Marten Falls to Aroland,” Rasevych said. “Those six communities are involved in a planning project to look at what the routing would be for this project, the potential for economic development in the construction side of jobs and long-term any potential for maintenance jobs.”

Four of the remote Matawa communities are currently served by satellite Internet services while Nibinamik is served by microwave Internet services.

“They have all had challenges, issues with bandwidth,” Rasevych said, noting the schools, health centres and band offices in the communities have been impacted. “So we’re seeing significant issues, with not only speed but reliability, and this affects the day-to-day operations of (the communities’) public facilities.”

Rasevych said the youth have also been using more devices to communicate with each other both on the

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reserve and off the reserve as well as to explore the Internet.

“We’re seeing more use now with tablets, iPhones and other types of smart phones,” Rasevych said. “So you’ll have a household of a family where there may be 10 or 15 devices trying to connect to the wifi at one time.”

Rasevych said a number of issues have to be finalized before the project can advance.

“One is the finalization of routing — that is going to be up to the communities,” Rasevych said, noting that a First Nations broadband working group has been established.

“We have representatives from the communities that assist with the community engagement, the consultation with the traditional land users and the trappers (to locate) where there could be areas of concern for the community and those land users.”

Matawa held an open house on the project for off-reserve band members from Aug. 26-28, which was attended by 21 people. Commu-

nity members were asked for input about whether they want broadband, with faster Internet, cable and telephone services, if they know of any areas where the network cable should not be placed and if they know the ground conditions along the proposed route.

Rasevych said the communities could be connected within the next

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“It is really dependent on those pieces, one, the routing, also talking with the network partner that could provide the bandwidth and then, three, the funding request to government,” Rasevych said. “Because the project lies in a remote area, construction could only happen in the summer. But line clearing could happen during the winter.”

Rasevych said the four roadaccess Matawa communities, Constance Lake, Long Lake #58, Ginoogaming and Aroland, have better Internet services than the remote communities.

“But there are still gaps of connecting the infrastructure from those communities to the head-end framework (so) they would receive the higher speeds,” Rasevych said.

“And the infrastructure within those communities hasn’t been up to par.”

Rasevych said there is currently a proposal by Greenstone to upgrade the Internet services within the area townships, including the four roadaccess Matawa communities.

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ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᓇᐠ ᐊᐧᐁᐧᓇᒋᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᒪᓀᓂᒥᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑫᐧᐠ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᐣ ᐅᑐᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑫᑭᔭᓂᔑ ᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᒪᓀᓂᒥᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑫᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑫᐧᓭᓴᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᒪᓀᓂᒥᑎᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒪᒉᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᒪᓀᓂᒥᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑫᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑫᐧᓭᓴᐠ ᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 15 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ 16 ᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐠ “ᐁᑲ ᑲᓇᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ: ᑲᑫᐧᑌᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᔑᒪᑕᓄᑲᑌᐠ” ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᒪᒉᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᒪᓀᓂᒥᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑫᐧᐠ ᓄᑯᑦ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ. ᑭᓇᐧᕑᐊ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᐣ ᑯᕑᐁᐠ ᕑᐃᐠᐳᕑᐟ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᒋᑲᐣ ᑭᐅᒋᒪᑲᐣ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᐯᔑᑯᔭᑭ ᒥᓇ ᐊᐱᑕ ᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᒪᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐊᐱᑕᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ ᑫᑭᐊᓄᑭᐊᐧᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᑭᐅᒋ ᑲᑫᐧᑭᐱᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᒪᒉᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᒪᓀᓂᒥᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑫᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑫᐧᓭᓴᐠ, ᐊᔑᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒋᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᐧᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑫᑭᐅᒋᓂᓯᑕᐁᐧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᓭᐠ ᒪᓀᓂᒥᑐᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐊᑎᐟ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᓇᑭᐡᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪᓀᓂᒥᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ. ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐢᑕᐣ ᐯᕑᑎ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᒋᑲᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑭᐅᒋᐊᔑᑎᓂᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᑫᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑭᑲᓄᓇᐣ ᑭᒋᐅᑭᒪᐣ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑭᑐᒋᑲᑌᓂᑭᐸᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᕑᐃᐠᐳᕑᐟ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐃᑯᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧ ᑎᐯᐣᒋᑫᐨ ᐅᑭᐊᔭᑭᓀ ᐃᔑᓂᔕᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᓇᐣ ᐅᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑭᑲᓄᓇᐨ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐅᒪ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃ ᐃᓀᑫ.

Feds table action plan on violence against Aboriginal women The federal government has tabled an action plan to address violence against Aboriginal women and girls.

The Action Plan to Address Family Violence and Violent Crimes Against Aboriginal Women and Girls was released on Sept. 15, and comes from 16 recommendations in the report “Invisible Women: A Call to Action” by the MPs on the Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women that was released earlier this year.

Kenora MP Greg Rickford said that the action plan is in response to more than a year and a half of work done by the committee.

The report contains key components to help address the issue of violence against Aboriginal women and girls, including raising awareness of the issue at a community level where some of these women experience the violence.

Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy said the action plan was developed without working with First Nations leaders and called on the government to do a national inquiry.

Rickford said he has written letters to chiefs in his riding inviting them to engage in an awareness program in the region.

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ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᐃᐧᐅᔑᑐᐊᐧ ᒪᒪᑕᐊᐧᐱᑯ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᒪᐠ ᒋᑭᔕᑕᐱᔭᓄᑭᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓂᔭᓇᐣ ᓄᐱᒪᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐊᔭᒪᑲᓂᑭᐣ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐯᔓᐨ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᔑ ᑭᒋᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑲᓂᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᓄᐱᒪᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᑕᓇᐱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᑲᐅᒋᑎᐯᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ - ᐁᐧᐱᑫᐧ, ᓂᐱᓇᒥᐠ, ᓀᐡᑲᐣᑕᑲ, ᐊᐸᒪᑐᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐊᑯᑭᐠ - ᐅᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᑭᐅᒋ ᐊᓂᑲᐧᐱᑫᓂᑲᑌᑲᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᔕᑕᐱᓭᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᐠ ᒪᒋᑭᑐᐃᐧ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐧᑎ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᓂᑯᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᐠ ᐊᑯᑭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᕑᐅᓫᐊᐣᐟ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒉᓴᐣ ᕑᐁᓴᐱᐨ, ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᐣ. ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᓂᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᑕᐸᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ

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Wawatay News ᓴᑎᓫᐊᔾᐟ ᐃᐣᑐᓀᐟ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᓭᑭᐣ ᒪᒪᑕᐊᐧᐱᑯᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᓂᐱᓇᒥᐠ ᒪᔾᑯᕑᐅᐁᐧᔾᑊ ᐃᐣᑐᕑᓀᐟ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᓭᑭᐣ ᒪᒪᑕᐊᐧᐱᑯᐣ ᐅᒋᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᓂ. ᒪᑕᐊᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᓇᑐᑫᒧᐸᓂᐠ ᒋᐱᔕᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᑲᐧᒋᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓂᔑᓂᓂᒥᐊᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᐸᐅᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 26 ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 28 ᑲᐃᓇᑭᓱᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᒪᒪᐤ 21 ᑭᐃᔕᐊᐧᐠ. ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᐃᔕᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᑫᐧᐣ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓂᐠ ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᐅᒋ ᑭᔕᑕᐱᓭᓂᐠ ᐃᐣᑐᕑᓀᐟ, ᑫᐳ ᒥᓇ ᒪᒋᑭᑐᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᑫᐧᐣ ᐃᓇᐱᓀᓯᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᐁᑲ ᐃᒪ ᒋᑭᐃᓇᐱᑫᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᔑᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᑫᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐁᔑᓇᑲᐧᓂᑫᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑫᔭᓂᓇᐱᑫᓯᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ. ᕑᐁᓴᐱᐨ ᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᐃᐧᐅᓇᐱᑫᓯᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯ ᐊᐸᒋᒋᑲᓇᐣ ᐊᔕ ᑕᑭᐊᓂᑲᐧᐱᑫᓇᑲᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᔓᔭᑭ ᑭᐃᓯᓭᓂᐠ.

Matawa looking to develop fibre optic network Matawa First Nations is looking to develop a broadband fibre optic network for their five remote fly-in communities in the Ring of Fire area.

The remote communities of Matawa — Webequie, Nibinamik, Neskantaga, Eabametoong and Marten Falls — are looking to connect to an inter-community fibre optic network that would also see a connection from Marten Falls to Aroland, said Jason Rasevych, Matawa’s economic development advisor.

Four of the remote Matawa communities are currently served by satellite Internet services while Nibinamik is served by microwave Internet services.

Matawa held an open house on the project for off-reserve band members from Aug. 26-28, which was attended by 21 people. Community members were asked for input about whether they want broadband, with faster Internet, cable and telephone services, if they know of any areas where the network cable should not be placed and if they know the ground conditions along the proposed route.

Rasevych said the communities could be connected within the next two years.

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North Star Air expands services to nine more communities North Star Air has expanded its Flex Flight passenger services to nine additional communities via two new routes, effective Sept. 15.

One of the new routes connects Cat Lake, Bearskin Lake, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Wapekeka and Kasabonika with Sioux Lookout

and Thunder Bay while the other connects Neskantaga, Nibinamik, Wunnumin Lake and Kingfisher Lake with Thunder Bay. The Cat Lake-Bearskin-KI-Wapekeka-Kasabonika flight operates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays while the Neskantaga-NibinamikWunnumin-Kingfisher flight operates on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

North Star Air began offering services this past June with a flight connecting Sachigo Lake, Muskrat Dam, Weagamow, Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay. Since signing on as partners with Sachigo Lake and Muskrat Dam in June to provide its Flex Flight program, North Star Air has also added Cat Lake and Neskantaga as partners.

North Star Air currently provides charter, passenger and freight/ cargo services.

Page 3 ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᑕᐣ ᐅᐱᒥᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᑭᐸᑯᐡᑭᑲᓄᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᒪᒪᐃᐧᓄᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐱᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᓇᐣ ᒪᒪᐃᐧᓄᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᔑᒪᒪᐃᐧᐡᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 2006 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ, ᐊᔑᐨ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᔑᐊᐧᐅᑯᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ. ᐃᑭᑐᒪᑲᐣ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐊᔭᑲᐧᒥᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓄᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ, ᓇᓇᑐᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔑᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᑭᐊᔭᑭᐣ 800 ᓇᑲᐡᑭᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 2006. ᑫᑲᐟ ᐊᐱᑕ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ 800 ᓇᑲᐡᑭᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᐧᐣᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑭᑕᔑᑐᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᑭᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐅᒋ ᓇᑲᐡᑭᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐃᓯᓭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᒋ, ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐅᒋ ᑎᐸᑐᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒋᑫᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᐠ ᑭᒋᔓᓂᔭᐃᐧᑭᒪ. ᑲᑭᑎᐸᑐᑌᑭᐣ ᑭᓂᐱᑌᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᑎᐟ ᑲᑭ ᑭᐸᐦᐃᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᑭᐸᑯᐡᑭᑫᐃᐧ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑐᑲᐣ ᑭᔐᒋᐊᐧᓄᐠ, ᐊᑯᑭᐠ, ᐊᑕᐊᐧᐱᐢᑲᐟ ᒥᓇ ᐊᓴᐸᐱᐡᑯᓯᐊᐧᑲᐠ. ᐅᐁᐧ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᑭᒋᑎᐸᑐᑌ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᓴᑭᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 2007 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ. ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂ ᐊᓄᑭᓇᑲᐣ ᑲᐱᒥ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑫᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐨ ᑲᑫᐧᑕᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐅᐸᑭᑎᓇᓇᐣ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ. ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᑕᐡ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂ ᐅᑭᑐᑕᒪᑫ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐃᒪ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᒋᑭᑫᑕᑲᐧᑭᐣ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐃᓯᓭᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐊᔭᑲᐧᒥᓯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑫᑭᐅᒋᓂᓂᒋᔭᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᓂᑲᑌᐦᐃ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑐᒋᒪᓇᒋᑐᐣ ᐁᑲ ᑲᐧᐣᑕ ᒋᔑᑎᐸᒋᒥᑕᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᔭᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᐧᔭᐠ ᒋᔑᓇᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᒪᒪᐃᐧᐡᑲᐊᐧᐨ ᓇᑲᐡᑭᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒋ.

Canadian government admits to tracking protests, rallies The federal government has been keeping tabs on rallies and demonstrations since 2006, including many related to First Nations.

According to a document released by Public Safety Canada, various governmental and law enforcement agencies have reported on about 800 demonstrations and events since 2006.

Nearly a third of the 800 events listed took place in an Aboriginal community, referenced demonstrations about Aboriginal issues, or was reported on by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development of Canada.

The report listed several blockades or protests in northern Ontario communities, including Kashechewan, Marten Falls, Attawapiskat and Grassy Narrows.

The report heavily documented a National Day of Action held by First Nations across the country in June 2007. A government agency that monitors activities related to terrorist incidents filed many reports.

A government spokesperson said the department needs to maintain awareness of a wide range of issues that could affect the safety and security of Canadians at home and abroad. She added the government respects the privacy of Canadians and their right to a peaceful protest.

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By its own admission, the federal government has been keeping tabs on rallies and demonstrations since 2006, including many related to First Nations.

According to a document released by Public Safety Canada, various governmental and law enforcement agencies have reported on about 800 demonstrations and events since 2006. The reports were collected by the Government Operations Centre (GOC), a wing of the Public Safety department which describes itself as “providing emergency response” to events of national interest.

The document revealed a list of domestic and international events by date, location, a brief description, and includes citations identifying who was responsible for its report. The document did not include details of those reports.

Nearly a third of the 800 events listed took place in an Aboriginal community, referenced demonstrations about Aboriginal issues, or was reported on by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development of Canada (AANDC).

Several of the events directly referenced First Nations in northern Ontario.

Kashechewan was listed on Feb. 8, 2008, with the description: “blockade – by residents.” The report was filed by AANDC. The Ontario regional office of AANDC reported on Marten Falls on March 4, 2011, describing “blockades” to “prevent exploration activities in the Ring of Fire area.”

Attawapiskat had a protest on housing, as reported by AANDC on June 6, 2012.

The RCMP filed a report on a Grassy Narrows youth demonstration in Slant Lake on Aug. 16, 2013.

The report had 31 events listed in June 2007 for a National Day of Action held

by First Nations people across the country. Many

of them were “situation reports” at “various locations across Canada” leading up to the event in late June. The Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre, an agency describing its role on its website as “to prevent and reduce the effects of terrorist incidents on Canadians,” filed five of those reports.

The RCMP filed more than 30 reports in early October 2013. The first week of that month listed Idle No More Day of Action events and events about missing and murdered indigenous women, including a candlelight vigil in Montreal.

“The GOC gathers and shares information under the authority of the Emergency Management Act and the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Act.”

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North Star Air expands services to nine more communities Rick Garrick

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North Star Air has expanded its Flex Flight passenger services to nine additional communities via two new routes, effective Sept. 15.

“I always say that competition is a good thing in both the short and long term, because it will provide a safe, reliable competitive alternative for customers, especially community members from the north,” said MaryEllen Thomas, community/public relations with North Star Air. “We just combined a service that is already provided — our Flex Flight program is an extension of our chartered on-demand air service.”

One of the new routes connects Cat Lake, Bearskin Lake, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Wapekeka and Kasabonika with Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay while the other connects Neskantaga, Nibinamik, Wunnumin Lake and Kingfisher Lake with Thunder Bay. “Expanding personal, leisure and business travel opportunities for northern Ontario translates into more choices and flexibilities for all their passengers when it comes to their

travel plans,” Thomas said.

“When planning their travels, passengers need reassurance that safety is the top priority of airline services and this is what passengers can come to expect from North Star Air. Customers expect to receive safe, on-time and reliable services and North Star Air is committed to fulfilling these customer expectations to ensure passengers the best possible travel experience.”

The Cat Lake-Bearskin-KIWapekeka-Kasabonika flight operates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays while the Neskantaga-Nibinamik-Wunnumin-Kingfisher flight operates on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

“The Flex Flight has the

flexibility to meet customers’ demands,” Thomas said. “We can carry freight up to a certain community, but at the same time it would not interrupt the customers when they go up on a certain corridor. That brings down the cost for our freight customers. You always have to look for solutions.”

North Star Air began offering Flex Flight services this past June with a flight connecting Sachigo Lake, Muskrat Dam, Weagamow, Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay. “We had a tremendous positive response (to the SachigoMuskrat Dam-Weagamow flight) and our load factors have are pretty much up,”

Thomas said.

Since signing on as partners with Sachigo Lake and Muskrat Dam in June to provide the Flex Flight program, North Star Air has also added Cat Lake and Neskantaga as partners.

“They have the same common vision as the (first) two partners had — providing more choices for air transportation,” Thomas said. “Right now we have four Pilatuses, we’re getting another two (Pilatuses) and we have the two Baslers under Cargo North. We will be converting that to passengers to carry 18 plus freight plus the baggage.”

North Star Air also introduced a special introductory fare for the first two weeks of the service, beginning on Sept.

15.

“The people up north deserve to have choices made available to them,” Thomas said.

Cargo North is a one-yearold alliance company to North Star Air, which began services in 1997 as a floatplane service based in Pickle Lake. North Star Air currently provides charter, passenger and freight/cargo services with a vision to provide customers with the best possible experience throughout their entire journey.

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Asked why the federal government was so interested in tracking First Nations demonstrations, a Public Safety Canada spokesperson said the GOC, on behalf of the Government of Canada, leads and supports “the coordination of the federal response to events affecting the national interest.”

“This requires that the GOC maintain awareness of a wide range of issues that could affect the safety and security of Canadians at home and abroad,” the spokesperson said in an e-mail to Wawatay News.

“The GOC gathers and shares information under the authority of the Emergency Management Act and the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Act.” The department maintained that it “does not conduct surveillance operations,

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Commentary Meditation By Tractor Xavier Kataquapit Under the northern sky

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have been thinking lately of buying a tractor.

I can’t afford a new one so I am just looking for an older, used farm tractor.

Actually, the older I get the more and more I think I am turning into my dad Marius.

He was always on the lookout for some interesting machine that he could use to make his life easier and add to his fleet of machines.

The very first tractor I remember seeing as a child back in Attawapiskat was a huge old red Massey Ferguson that was owned by Reg Louttit. He used it mainly to run a portable sawmill so that he could produce lumber. The next tractor I came across was one that my dad Marius purchased on a trip to Moosonee. I faintly remember that old David Brown tractor as I was only about seven years of age. I recall that it was sort of rusty looking with a white trim and it had a front bucket. I think it came back on the winter road as that was the only way to transport something that big to Attawapiskat other than by barge in the summer.

Dad used that old David Brown to assist him with all the general contracting work he did around town.

One business he started was transporting water. He picked up an old broken down trailer and welded it back together then fixed a 400-gallon tank to it. He used it to fetch water from the river by pump and then transported it to town to deliver to community homes for a price. I find it strange to realize that back then nobody had running water or indoor plumbing to speak of and it was the early 1980s.

We were just a short airplane ride from Timmins to the south yet we were still living as though it was the 1930s.

Soon after he purchased a newer John Deere tractor and a few trailers. At that point he started a company to haul cargo from the airport to the Hudson Bay store, which then became the Northern Store. He had established a family business with the two tractors and trailers. Myself and my brothers joined in to help dad run the business.

I was 12 years old when I learned how to drive both tractors. My older brothers introduced me to the fine art of driving a tractor. I started

by hauling an empty trailer then progressed to one with a load and soon I was an active participant in the Marius Kataquapit and Sons contracting business.

Dad also got the contract to haul some of the cargo that came in on the summer barge. It shipped out from Moosonee and made a couple of trips a season. To make things more interesting for us he also built two trailers to hold 1,000-gallon tanks which he used to transport fuel from the barge and then across the community to the Northern Store. They had one of two gas stations in town.

When I was a teenager my dad ventured out on a trip to Sudbury and in Chelmsford he purchased a brand new Ford New Holland tractor.

Business had been good to him and he rewarded himself by investing in this new tractor. He brought it up on the winter road and we were all very impressed with the fact that it was new, had a bucket and also a fork lift attachment. We were excited at the fact that it had an enclosed cab with air conditioning for those few hot weeks of summer and heating for the long winter months. That tractor more or less became a big part of my life as I drove it just about every day hauling cargo, making trips on the winter road to Moosonee and dragging a huge tank filled with water around the community in the summer to keep the dust down.

I became known as the dust buster.

I got very good at handling that tractor and eventually I could do just about anything that a job demanded of me.

When my dad got older he more or less retired although he never really gave up on keeping his foot in the business. My brothers expanded the business and purchased even more equipment to fulfil the needs of the transport and cargo company. At this point my brother Paul mainly runs the company and is hard at work keeping our dad’s dream alive and well.

When I am passing farm fields these days I am keeping an eye out for one of those trusty, yet rusty old tractors that made my dad’s eyes sparkle with delight.

Who knows, maybe I will find a good deal and take it back to the cottage. I am sure it would be useful in many odd jobs I do these days.

However, I must admit I just sometimes miss the feel of an old tractor under me as I run the engine through the gears and stay busy moving things here and there. It is kind of like a meditation.

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Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Harvey Yesno walks with dozens of participants in the 16th Annual Solvent Abuse Awareness for Everyone (SAAFE) Walk held on Sept. 18 in Thunder Bay. Ka-Na-Chi-Hih hosted the event with special guest Dakota House and live entertainment from comedians Ron Kanutski and Patrick Cheechoo.

To my Eabametoong Brothers of Bushtown Derek Fox

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To the northeast of Thunder Bay, somewhere between here and the shores of Hudson Bay, lies a quiet, desolate, yet majestic and scenic piece of land.

It, like many of the communities and trap lines in the North, sits between a bed of rivers, lakes, swamps and muskeg.

Eabametoong, also known as Fort Hope First Nation, is another treasure of Canada’s landscape I recently got to visit for my first time.

For many years I played hockey against the Atlookan and O’Keese boys. Although rivals on the ice, we always remained good friends off of it, a respect for one another and relationship similar to that of brothers. After my meetings were done, which was my purpose for being there, my brothers from another mother took the time to gather up their gear, fuel up their boats and drive me to their traditional territory of Bushtown, hoping to see a moose along the way.

When we arrived at Bushtown it was through a narrow river that had the shape of an S and to both sides of me were tall weeds, a perfect place for moose to feed and they have on more than one occasion, according to my driver, Kurt Atlookan. He says to me, last

year Leo (his brother) and him missed a huge bull there as he was crossing. He laughed as he shook his head. I could tell he was thinking how the hell did I miss that moose?! Any hunter could share a similar story of the one that got away.

Bushtown is historic in all of its elements with many of its log cabins still standing and teepee shaped smokers used for smoking moose meat and fish and if your senses are in tune with the land you could almost see the families gathered around the fire, the smell of campfire bannock as they sing songs of prayer asking for safety of their hunters and thanking the creator for the land beneath them, while appreciating the fresh air and water around them.

A pair of old skates hang from the tree and Derek Atlookan says to me those are my skates and this river is where we played hockey everyday.

The Atlookans you see are very good hockey players. Besides hunting and fishing, hockey is the thing they most love to do. Many battles have been won and lost against them on the ice, but from those battles and rivalries, friendships were formed, which brought me to their land that day and an excitement from all of us that I was visiting a place so sacred to them.

Kurt takes me around the

cabins telling me stories of their childhood, one of how they used to jump through the fires and get in trouble by their parents, or the day his uncles and father went hunting taking all the rifles with them while moose walked into their camp and all they could do is sit and watch them play. He told me about the previous winter, in which two moose crossed the river when they all jumped on the skidoo and his brother Leo jumped in the sled usually attached to the back of it. However, the sled was not attached this time and by the time they realized he was not on it they were halfway to the moose, so their brother Leo missed out on that one. Kurt says to me he was still sitting in it ready to go when they came back, he chuckled looking up in the sky, realizing this will be a story told for many years.

Bushtown is the source of many of these stories, a place where many laughs and memories were created and shared, a place of many cups of tea, somewhere they could sit by the fire every fall season and overlook the bays surrounding them to see if the moose had come out to provide meat for them or hunt geese every spring or fish for an abundance of walleye every summer. Kurt continues to tell me many stories in his Oji-Cree dialect, a beautiful

tone of humor and language unique to his people and land.

His stories were many, the laughs many more, ones that are his to share with whom he chooses, grateful he chose to share them with me that day.

As I sat and watched the brothers build another log cabin with a mixture of hockey, hunting and Northern humor, in which one made fun of the other, our laughs never stopped; a relationship with each other and the land that is similar, almost identical to that of my family, jokes sometimes directed at me at my expense, in which I was reassured of why I love my people so much.

My Atlookan brothers love the land just as much as any person in the North does and in them I could see the warrior traits of their Ancestors, graceful smiles and offers of friendship, but fierce protectors of their land, which gave me the sense that the future our people and land is in good hands as they look to me to provide protection using my legal knowledge and I look to them to provide protection in traditional knowledge. A good working relationship I say. An invitation to come moose hunting for a long weekend has been extended to me, one I will not pass up.

Until then, take care Bushtown brothers….

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Column Contemplating the missing, murdered sisters Stephanie Wesley

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was at the opening of Walking with Our Sisters exhibit here in Thunder Bay. It was really crowded, an impressive turn out and I was happy to see that. My sister and I had to stand in the lobby with several other people. We could still hear the speakers and stories over the intercom.

It felt like the way things did when I used to go to camp meetings with my grandparents, though those meetings were often loud and full of music and singing and energy. You could feel it in your stomach.

But this experience wasn’t noisy at all. It was quiet, yet

I could still detect that same feeling of energy coming from that room, that exhibit.

I didn’t get the chance to go inside, and I made plans to return to visit the vamps.

I have yet to visit, though, as there are busy people in my life whom I want to go see it with because to be honest, it makes me sad and a little scared. Even to think about, I feel this knot in my stomach.

I tend to get anxious. I have issues with anxiety and panic, and something that feels that powerful to me just standing outside of the room is not really an experience I want to go at alone.

I want to go with my mom, or with my sister, or my aunt.

Above all, I want to go with my grandmother, my Kookum.

She is the person I would like to visit the vamps with most.

My Kookum lost her mom when she was probably around my age now. I can’t

imagine what that would be like. I am not sure what lead to the circumstances of my great-grandmother’s demise, but she was a patient at the Fort William Sanatorium here in the city of Thunder Bay. I was told she went out on a day pass from the facility, and was found deceased by a river.

When I look at where that sanatorium used to be, which was the Fort William Indian Hospital Sanatorium before the name change, it is located along the same river/floodway system that I live beside now. I sometimes wonder if that was the river where she was found, as it’s so close.

I don’t know how she died, maybe from her sickness (assuming she was there for tuberculosis), maybe something else, but those who I have asked have no idea.

My Kookum wasn’t even able to make it to her mother’s funeral, there wasn’t enough room in the vehicle

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The spokesperson added that the Canadian government “respects the privacy of Canadians and their right to peaceful protest.”

The report made little reference to the Idle No More protests and rallies in the winter of 2012-13. Only a media report on a Dec. 4, 2012 protest in Ottawa and a Dec. 11, 2012 protest to “provide support to the Chief (Theresa Spence)” in Hobbema, Alta., were listed.

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liament Hill while Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with a small group of chiefs in Ottawa. The only First Nations-related activity listed that month referred to a blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor to the U.S. Asked if the department deliberately omitted the numerous Idle No More events from the report, the Public Safety spokesperson said: “The GOC was made aware in 2012-2013 of a number of demonstrations regarding Idle No More and as a result two events (one for each year) were created.

“All reported Idle No More demonstrations were consolidated within those two events,” the spokesperson said. “The demonstration that took place on January

16 2013 at the Ambassador Bridge corresponds to the 2013 Idle No More Event.”

The report also omitted the heavily-armed RCMP raid on a Mi’kmaq Warrior Societyled anti-fracking camp in New Brunswick last October.

Along with the First Nations-related activity, the report listed events ranging from public university lectures, peaceful protests, and environmental activism.

The 34-page report was requested by Liberal MP Scott Brison in June and was processed and released Sept. 15.

The department of Public Safety was created in 2003 and coordinates activities of three review bodies and five agencies including the National Parole Board, Correctional Service Canada, the RCMP, CBSA, and CSIS.

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that was taking her siblings from the Red Lake area to Thunder Bay. To this day, my Kookum doesn’t know where her mother is buried, but she is somewhere here in this city.

I wish I knew what kind of person my great-grandmother was, how she looked, if she was funny, or what her dreams were. Did she know how important she was? How important she still is to myself at least, because from her came my Kookum, my mom, my aunts, uncles, my cousins, my siblings, my nieces and nephews and my own child?

When I think of her and those vamps and the women they represent, I think about the lives that are left here, the lives that still go on but are missing an important piece, a piece that was taken too soon.

I also think of those generations who will never be because that one link was severed, that one tree was uprooted.

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And how is this still going on to this day? How are the root causes of what leads to the power imbalance and injustice to the most vulnerable not being looked into and not addressed?

There are so many people out there who love to say “you do this to yourself, to your own people” but that is not always the case.

And saying such things does nothing to help the issue at hand.

But it’s good to see some action. It’s good to see dialogue. It’s good to see awareness on the issue is spreading, and it’s good to be able to have the chance to be a part of it.

So I will be attending Walking with Our Sisters soon before it leaves this place to go onto the next, and as busy as some people in my life are, I will go even if I have to walk alone.

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Is that the energy I felt standing in that lobby listening to the stories? Was I feeling the energy of those who are no longer here, those who should be here but never had the chance because of the unfinished life of those women represented by the unfinished moccasins?

As I was writing this column, a talented Indigenous singer from Winnipeg shared a song she wrote about a young girl whose life was taken this past summer. I can only assume to know whom it is for.

In situations like that, where a young woman who was in circumstances nobody should ever be in, whose short life was filled with so much pain and hurt, where the power imbalance between her and those who victimized and took advantage of her was so apparent, where evil just had to come in to take the life of such a vulnerable spirit, you have to wonder

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Sharon Angeconeb, Louise Thomas, Bella Patayash and Sandra Munro helped celebrate the Sept. 19 opening of the Walking With Our Sisters exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

Exhibit honours missing and murdered indigenous women Continued from page 1 exhibition features a sacred art bundle of about 1,800 moccasin vamps made by individuals from across Turtle Island and overseas to honour missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. The vamps were created from July 2012 to July 2013.

“A ceremony was held today to mark the opening of the vamps to the people,” said Wanda Baxter, a local Elder who provided ongoing support to local planners.

“The sacred fire was lit earlier this week as we began our preparations. We are entering into a really powerful and sacred space when visiting with the vamps at the gallery and we have local Elders and helpers to assist visitors through their walk here.”

Leanna Sigsworth, local lead organizer for the exhibition, said the “vamps mark the lives of beautiful women who deserve to be remembered with the utmost respect.”

“This is our opportunity to honour our sisters who have gone missing or have had their lives taken through horrible acts of violence,” Sigsworth said. “This serves as an important reminder of our collective responsibility to recognize that this violence

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“I continue to be overwhelmed by the commitment and courage of people who have come together to support this vision,” Belcourt said. “I have seen a lot of work happening in communities across Canada that speaks to the strengthening of relationships among community members, which is an important part of ceremony.”

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“They left large circles of loss when they were taken, when they were murdered or if they are still missing,” Belcourt said. “Their families are in that area of limbo not knowing where their loved one is and they grieve every day for them.”

Belcourt said the exhibition has received overwhelming support from community members wherever it has been presented. It has already visited six communities across Canada and is currently scheduled to visit more than 31 locations over the next six years.

“We don’t accept government funding, so it’s everybody coming together and doing what they can,” Belcourt said. “The issue of our missing sisters is so important and everybody wants something to be done about it.”

Earlier this year, the RCMP released a report that found that more than 1,181 indigenous women and girls have been murdered or gone missing over the past 30 years, which represents 16 per cent of female homicides and 11.3 per cent of missing women.

Aboriginal women make up 4.3 per cent of the women’s population in Canada.

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ᐁᐃᐧᒋᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑭᒋᐃᑫᐧᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᓂᓯᑕᐧ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᕑᐃᐠ ᑲᕑᐃᐠ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᓂᔑᐣ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᑎᐸᒋᒥᑕᐧ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑲᑭᓂᓯᑕᐧ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐃᑫᐧᓭᓴᐠ ᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᔭᓂᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐁᐃᐧᒋᐱᒧᓭᒥᑕᐧ ᑭᒋᐃᑫᐧᒥᓇᐣ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᒪᓯᓂᐱᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᓇᐁᐧᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ. “ᐸᓂᒪ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᒪᒋᓂᔕᐦᐊᒪᐸᐣ ᐊᓴᒥᑫᐧᐦᐃᑲᐣ (ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᓂᐱᑌᑯᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᒋᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐊᐧᓄᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐃᐧᒋᐱᒧᓭᒥᑕᐧ ᑭᒋᐃᑫᐧᒥᓇᓂᐠ) ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᐊᓂᑭᑫᑕᒪᐣ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐃᑫᐧ ᑲᑭ ᑭᑫᓂᒪᑭᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᓂᐦᐊᑲᓄᐨ ᐃᓴᐣ ᐁᐊᐧᑯᒪᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᓴᐣᐟᕑᐊ ᒪᐣᕑᐅ ᐊᐱ ᑲᔭᓂᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 19 ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᐅᐱᒪᐊᒧᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 12 ᒋᔑ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐊᐧᓄᐊᐧᐠ. “ᓂᑯᓯᐢ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑯᒪᐣ ᐅᑭᐃᓇᑯᒪᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᑕᑕᒥᔭᐣ ᐅᑐᓯᓴᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᓱ ᐸᔪᓫᐊ ᐃᓯᐯᓫᐊ ᐸᓇᒋᐢ.” ᐸᓇᒋᐢ, ᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᓂ ᑲᓀᐱᒋᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᐨ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒥᑯᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᒪᒪᑕᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ, www. unsolvedcanada.ca ᑲᐃᔑᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᑌᐠ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᐠ, ᑭᐊᐧᓂᐦᐊᑲᓄ ᐊᐧᓂᓇᐊᐧᑲᐠ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ 42 ᐁᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀᐸᐣ. ᒪᒋᐨ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᐊᐧᐸᒪᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᐁᐱᒧᓭᑯᐸᓀᐣ ᓫᐁᐠᔕᐧᕑ ᒥᑲᓇᐠ 1991 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ. “ᐅᑕᓂᓴᐣ ᑭᑎᐸᒋᒧᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᐊᐧᓂᐦᐊᑲᓄᐨ ᓂᐦᓱᑯᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᓇᓇᑐᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᐁᑭᐊᐃᓇᐱᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐣᕑᐅ. “ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐱ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐅᐸᐅᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 1991, 23 ᑕᓱᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᒪᔑ ᐊᒪᓂᓱᑕᑯᓯᓯᐣ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᒋᑭᑫᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᐊᓂᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᓯᓭᑫᐧᐣ. ᐸᔪᓫᐊ ᐅᑭᐊᔭᐊᐧᐣ ᓂᓴᐧᓱ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐣ, ᓂᔭᓇᓄᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑕᓂᓴᐣ ᒥᓇ ᓂᔓᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᑯᓯᓴᐣ.” ᔐᕑᐊᐣ ᐊᐣᒋᑯᓀᑊ, ᑲᐊᓂᑫ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑭᒪᑫᐧᐃᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑌᓇᐢ ᑊᕑᐊᐣᑭᓫᐃᐣ ᑲᕑᐊᒧᕑᑎ ᐦᐊᔾ

ᐢᑯᓫ, ᐅᑭᑎᐸᒋᒪᐣ ᐅᑯᒧᐣ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᓂᑕᐃᐧᑭᒪᑲᓇᐣ ᕑᐅᐱᓇ ᐁᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᓯᓂᐨ, ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᒥᐦᐊᐁᐧ ᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᐊᐱ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᑲᑭᔭᓂ ᒪᒪᒋᐃᐧᓂᑕᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᐧᓴ ᒋᐊᐣᑕᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᐃᐡᑯᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᐱᐠ ᑲᑭᐅᒋᒪᒋᐃᐧᓂᑕᐧᐸᐣ. “ᓇᑫ ᐱᑯ ᑲᑭᐃᐡᑲᐧ ᒪᒋᐃᐧᓇᑲᓄᐸᐣ ᕑᐅᐱᓇ, ᐅᓂᑭᐦᐃᑯᐣ ᑭᐱᐃᐧᑕᒪᐃᐧᒪᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᐅᐣᒋᐊᑯᓯᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᑭᔭᓂᐳᓂᐱᒪᑎᓯᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐣᒋᑯᓀᑊ. “ᒥᑕᐡ ᐃᑯ ᐁᑕ ᐃᐁᐧ ᑲᐃᓂᑕᐧ. ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᓇᑫ ᒋᑭᐅᒋ ᐃᓯᓭᓂᐠ ᒋᑭᓇᐦᐃᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑕᓂᓯᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᑫᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᓇᐦᐃᑲᐊᐧᓄᑫᐧᐣ.” ᐊᐣᒋᑯᓀᑊ ᐃᑭᑐ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᒥᓀᐧᑕᐠ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᐸᑕᑭᐣ ᑭ ᑭ ᓇ ᐊ ᐧ ᒋ ᒋ ᑲ ᓇ ᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᑲᐊᑯᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᒋᑲᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐱᒧᓭᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᓂᓯᑕᐧ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᑲᓇᐁᐧᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔑᐃᐧ ᐃᐡᑯᓄᑲᒥᑯᐣ. “ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᓂᔕᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᐢ ᐁᓂᔭᓇᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᓄᓯᓴᐠ ᐁᐃᑫᐧᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐣᒋᑯᓀᑊ. “ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐊᑲᔐᔑᐨ ᑭᐯᔑᑯᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ ᓄᑯᑦ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᓂᐱᓂ ᐁᑲᐧ ᕑᐅᐱᓇ ᐃᔑᓂᑲᓱ. ᐊᓇᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᑐᒋᑭᑫᓂᒪᓯᒥᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᕑᐅᐱᓇ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᓂᑲᓱᐨ, ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᑲ ᐣᑲᐊᐧᓂᑫᑕᐊᐧᓯᒥᐣ, ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᐱᑯ ᐣᒪᒥᑲᐃᐧᑕᐊᐧᒥᐣ.” ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐁᐃᐧᒋᐱᒧᓭᒪᑭᑕᐧ ᑭᒋᐃᑫᐧᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᓂᐱᑌᑯᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ 1,800 ᒪᑭᓯᓂ ᐊᓴᒥᑫᐧᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐊᐧᐅᔑᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᐸᐯᔑᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐊᐧᑲᐦᐃ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᓂᑲᑌ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᐁᐅᒋ ᒪᒥᑲᐁᐧᓂᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᓂᓯᑕᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᑫᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑫᐧᓭᓴᐠ. ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᓴᒥᑫᐧᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᑭᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᐸᐡᑯᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 2012 ᐊᑯᓇᐠ ᐅᐸᐡᑯᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 2013.

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Bella Patayash, Sandra Munro, Bella Patayash and Sharon Angeconeb talked about how the missing and murdered indigenous women issue impacted them during the opening of the Walking With Our Sisters exhibit.

“ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᐊᔭᒥᐦᐊᓄᐊᐧᐣ ᓄᑯᑦ ᑲᑭᔑᑲᐠ ᐁᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᑌᑕᑯᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑲᑭᑕᐃᐧᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓴᒥᑫᐧᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᒋᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᐧᐣᑕ ᐸᐠᐢᑐᕑ, ᑲᑭᒋᐦᐊᐃᐧᐡᑲᒪᑫᐨ ᑲᐃᔑᐱᒥ ᐊᓄᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓱᐡᑲᒪᑫᐃᔑᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᐊᓄᑲᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ. “ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᓴᑲᐦᐃᑲᑌ ᐳᑕᐊᐧᐣ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑲᔭᓇᒪᐦᒋᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲᐠ ᐊᐱ ᑲᑭᔭᓂᑲᐧᔭᒋᒋᑫᓇᓄᐊᐧᐠ. ᓂᑕᓂᐅᑎᑕᒥᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᒪᐡᑲᐁᐧᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲᓇᑌᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᐊᐱ ᑲᔭᓂ ᓇᓯᑭᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓴᒥᑫᐧᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐃᔑᒪᒪᐃᐧᐊᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐣᑕᔭᐊᐧᒥᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᒋᐦᐊᐃᐧᐡᑲᒪᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᓱᐡᑲᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᑫᐱᑕᑕᑯᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐱᐱᒧᓭᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪ.” ᓫᐃᐊᓇ ᓯᐠᐅᕑᐟ, ᐅᑌᓇᐠ ᑲᓂᑲᓂ ᐊᓄᑲᑕᐠ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᐃᒪ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ “ᐊ ᓴ ᒥ ᑫ ᐧ ᐦ ᐃ ᑲ ᓇ ᐣ ᑭ ᑭ ᓇ ᐊ ᐧ ᒋ ᒋ ᑲ ᑲ ᓄ ᐊ ᐧ ᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᒪᑎᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᒥᓄᑫᐧᐃᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐃᓀᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᒋᑲᓄᑫᐣᑕᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᑭᑌᓂᒥᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ.” “ᒥᐦᐅᒪ ᐁᔑᑕᐃᐧᓭᓭᔭᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᒪᒥᑯᐣᑕᐊᐧᔭᑭᑕᐧ ᑭᒋᐃᑫᐧᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᓂᓯᑕᐧ,” ᓯᐠᐅᕑᐟ. “ᒥᐦᐅᒪ ᑲᔦ ᐁᐅᐣᒋ ᑲᓄᑫᒥᑯᔭᐠ ᑲᑭᓇ ᑲᑕᓯᓄᔭᐠ ᐁᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑯᔭᐠ ᒋ ᑭ ᑲ ᑫ ᐧ ᓂ ᓯ ᑕ ᐃ ᐧ ᓇ ᒪ ᐠ ᐊᑲᐧᑎᓯᑲᑕᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑭᐱᐃᔑᐁᐧᐸᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐁᐱᒥᐃᔑᐁᐧᐸᐠ… ᒥᓇ ᑭᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑯᒥᐣ ᒋᐊᓱᐡᑲᐊᐧᑭᑕᐧ ᑎᐯᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᒥᔕᒣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐱᒥᑭᑫᐊᐧᐨ.” ᑯᕑᐃᐢᑎ ᐯᓫᑲᐧᕑ, ᑲᑭᒪᒋᑐᐨ

INSPECTION

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Inspection of Approved Slash Pile Burning Lac Seul Forest

Lac Seul First Nation Frenchman’s Head Web Site: www.equaywuk.ca E-Mail: equaywuk@bellnet.ca

EQUAY-WUK (WOMEN’S GROUP)

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) invites you to inspect the MNRF-approved prescribed burn plan for slash pile burning that will be carried out in the Lac Seul Forest (see map).

To All The Community Service Workers located in Equay-wuk’s catchment area:

As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, some recently harvested areas have been selected to be burned under the strict guidelines of the MNRF Prescribed Burn Planning Manual. The prescribed burn will reduce the area covered in slash piles while increasing the area available for regeneration and reducing the fire hazard. The burn is scheduled for ignition between October 15, 2014 and February 15, 2015.

Community Health Workers (Home & Long Term Care, Personal Support Workers, Telehealth); Family Violence Prevention Workers; NNADAP Workers; Crisis Intervention Workers; Victim Support Workers; Social Services Workers; Restorative Justice Workers; Prevention Workers; NAN Legal Services Workers; Building Healthy Communities Workers;

Information about this prescribed burn project, including specific locations and maps, is available for public viewing at the offices of Obishikokaang Resources Corporation during normal business hours and the MNRF public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning September 15, 2014. The Ontario Government Information Centre at 62 Queen Street, Sioux Lookout provides access to the Internet. For more information or to discuss the prescribed burn project, please contact: Robert Auld Obishikokaang Resources Corporation tel: 807-738-1073

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ᐁᔑᑕᑭᐧᒪᑲᐠ ᐅᒪ ᐃᔑᑕᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ.” ᐯᓫᑯᕑ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᓄᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᑕᐸᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᒋᑕᒪᑫᒪᑲᐣ ᑕᐃᐧᐡᑲᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ “ᐁᑭᑫᑕᒧᓂᑕᐧ ᑎᐯᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐁᑭᒋᓀᑕᑲᐧᓂᐠ.” ᐢ ᑕ ᐦ ᐃ “ ᒥ ᑭᒋᐊᐧᓂᒋᑫᐊᐧᑫᓂᒧᓇᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐊᐱ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ, ᑲᓂᓯᑕᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᓫᑯᕑ. “ᐅᐊᐧᑯᒪᑲᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᓇᑭᐡᑲᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᐣ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑫᐃᓀᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑲ ᐁᑭᑫᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐣᑎ ᐊᐱᐣ ᑲᐃᓯᓭᓂᑫᐧᐣ ᑲᓴᑭᐦᐊᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑕᓱᑭᔑᑲ ᐁᒥᒋᓇᐁᐧᓯᐊᐧᐨ.” ᐯᓫᑯᕑ ᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᑭᑭᓇᐊᐧᒋᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᑭᐃᐧᒋᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᐯᔑᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑭᔭᓂᔑ ᐱᒥ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐊᐧᓄᐊᐧᐠ. ᐊᔕ ᓂᑯᑕᐧᓱ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᑭᐊᔭᑭᓀᐡᑲᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑲᑭᐸᐸᒥᐊᐧᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑭᐅᓇᒋᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐁᐧᑎ 31 ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒋᔭᓂᔕᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓂᑯᑕᐧᓱᔭᑭ ᐃᔑᓂᑲᐣ. “ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᑐᑕᐱᓇᓯᒥᐣ ᐅᑭᒪᐅᓂ ᔓᓂᔭ, ᐃᒪ ᐱᑯ ᓂᑐᑎᓂᑫᒥᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᒪᒪᐃᐧᐡᑲᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ,” ᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᓫᑯᕑ. “ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᓀᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐃᓯᓭᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐊᐧᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᓂᒋᐃᑫᐧᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐅᓇᑕᐁᐧᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒋᑲᑫᐧᑐᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ.” ᓄᑯᑦ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᐠ, ᑲᒥᐢᑲᐧᐱᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᔑᒪᑲᓂᔕᐠ ᐅᑭᐸᑭᑎᓇᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ 1,180 ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑫᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐃᑫᐧᓭᓴᐠ ᐁᑭᓯᓂᑕᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᑭᐱᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 30 ᑕᓱᔭᑭ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ, ᒥᑕᐡ ᐁᓇᑭᒋᑫᒪᑲᐠ 16 ᐳᓭᐣᐟ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᓂᓯᑕᐧ ᒥᓇ 11.3 ᐳᓭᐣᐟ ᑲᐊᐧᓂᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ. ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᑫᐧᐠ ᑲᑕᓯᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᓇᑭᒋᑫᒪᑲᐣ 4.3 ᐳᓭᐣᐟ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᑕᓯᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒪ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ.

A Poster and a Community Survey have been developed and posted onto the Equay-wuk website. Community Service workers are encouraged to visit the website; download and print both files and to distribute to community offices and to community members.

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The federal government has tabled an action plan to address violence against Aboriginal women and girls.

The Action Plan to Address Family Violence and Violent Crimes Against Aboriginal Women and Girls was released on Sept. 15, and comes from 16 recommendations in the report “Invisible Women: A Call to Action” by the MPs on the Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women that was released earlier this year.

Kenora MP Greg Rickford said that the action plan is in response to more than a year and a half of work done by the committee.

“The report tabled by my colleague Minister Leech is an action plan to address family violence and violent crime against Aboriginal women and girls,” Rickford said.

He said the report contains key components to help address the issue of violence against Aboriginal women and girls, including raising awareness of the issue at a community level where some of these women experience the violence.

Rickford said that he feels national inquiries form part of the study narrative that doesn’t address the solutions that are required.

“This would be a lengthy process, extremely costly with benefits of which would be mostly for judges and lawyers, and not focused on where and who we need to offer solutions and programs and support for, specifically First Nations women and girls in particular, “he said.

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from, we want to make sure that community resources are focused on providing them with support interventions, and obviously a justice system and rights on reserves that are focused on protecting them.”

Rickford explained that there is a need for more resources at a community level to address issues like domestic violence, which could lead to women leaving the community with their children and ending up in vulnerable situations in a city.

“Any programs directed to them and for them is the best way to go,” Rickford said.

Rickford has written letters to all of the First Nations chiefs in his riding, inviting them to engage in an awareness program in the region, working through his offices to access the program.

“The letters I wrote to the First Nations leaders in my region will be the next step in creating opportunities for support in those communities,” Rickford said.

In a statement from the Chiefs of Ontario, it reads that the action plan was not developed collaboratively with all First Nations, with most of the funding going towards project-based initiatives, the development of community action plans, and federal government administration.

Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy said that Canada must do more work with First Nations on addressing root causes of the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

“Canada must do more to work with First Nations on addressing the root causes of this issue in order to create lasting change. There still remains a large gap in understanding the issue, one that a national inquiry would aim to address,” Beardy

said.

“I challenge the Harper government’s position to do nothing to address the systematic discrimination and violence perpetrated against First Nations peoples. This is a sociological phenomenon in Canada and First Nations are tired of waiting for the federal government to do the right thing,” he added.

Rickford is currently awaiting responses from the First Nations chiefs in his riding.

The 21-page Action Plan to Address Family Violence and Violent Crimes Against Aboriginal Women and Girls brings together the action that the Government of Canada will take under three mainstays, which are preventing violence by supporting community level solutions, supporting Aboriginal victims with appropriate services, and protecting Aboriginal women and girls by investing in shelters and continuing to improve Canada’s law enforcement and justice systems.

The five-year action plan outlines concrete actions to prevent violence, support Aboriginal victims, and protect Aboriginal women and girls from violence.

Together with other federal support for shelters, family violence prevention, and increasing economic and leadership opportunities for Aboriginal women, it will result in an investment by the Government of Canada of nearly $200 million over five years, starting in 2015-2016 and 20162017.

The Action Plan builds on the Government of Canada’s 2010-2015 investment of $25 million to improve community safety, and to enhance the justice system and law enforcement response to cases of missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

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Noront Resources has printed and distributed hundreds of prize-winning t-shirts designed by two students from Long Lake #58 and Webequie.

“We had a t-shirt contest last year where we sent out to all the Ring of Fire communities the option for their students to create logos for our new t-shirts,” said Kaitlyn Ferris, Noront’s manager, corporate responsibility. “And we ended up with a tie between two designs. They won their design on the t-shirt for the next year.

And then we also sent t-shirts to their schools so that their whole class would get their t-shirt.”

The t-shirts are also handed out “everywhere we go” by Ferris and the Noront staff. Noront is one of the mining companies working on developing mining operations in the Ring of Fire mineral exploration area in the James Bay Lowlands.

“If you look around the room, you will see hundreds of people are now wearing their designs,” Ferris said at the Working Together for Student Success student orientation, held Sept. 5 at the Victoria Inn in Thunder Bay. “We are really

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Ferris said students at the orientation were “really impressed” with the winning t-shirt designs. The winning t-shirt design from Webequie was designed by a Grade 8 student.

“We’ve had a lot of high school students say they are shocked that a young kid like that has such talent,” Ferris said. “And they are proud to be wearing designs by youth.”

Noront has also sponsored a number of programs for Matawa community members over the years, including the Aboriginal Outreach Mining Matters Youth program, DAREarts and the Mining Movie Making Youth Camp. In addition, Noront staff have also helped package and deliver wrapped Christmas presents to all Marten Falls and Webequie children aged 12 and under, both on and off reserve.

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Couchiching’s Bill Perrault shared his knowledge of fishing with students at the 2014 Fall Harvest celebration at the Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay. “I was basically fileting fish and talking about the spawning habits of walleyes,” Perrault said. “Walleyes are a gamefish that most people in our area target, so I talked about one way to specifically determine the age of a walleye by using the barb.”

Perrault said the barbs are shaved to determine the number of rings, which indicates the walleye’s age.

“They look under a microscope to count the rings, just like you determine the age of a tree,” Perrault said. “If it’s four rings, it’s four years old.”

Perrault said the Grade 6 and 7 students “really want to sponge the information in.”

“The younger kids seem really cool,” Perrault said.

“They want to see the different parts within the fish. They seem really interested. It’s nice when some of the students and the chaperones at the end look at me and (say) ‘you know what, I’ve learned something today.’”

Perrault and a number of First Nation, Metis and other volunteers shared their knowledge with elementary school students from Thunder Bay during the annual fall harvest, which initially began about eight years ago under the guidance of former Seven Generations Education Institute postsecondary student support program director Mark Sault.

“It could be my last year, but if I’m in the area next year I’ll be here,” said Sault, who returned to Thunder Bay from his new home in southern Ontario for a week of work and to attend the fall harvest.

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Lakehead Public Schools Aboriginal education resource Lynnita Guillet shared a number of facts about geese, such as their migratory patterns and the impact the changing environment is having on their lives, with a group of students during the 2014 Fall Harvest at the Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay. same thing for two days.”

Sault said the fall harvest is a “great” learning experience for all students, not just native students.

“I’ve been talking with different people about putting programs together in the schools to show the contributions that natives have made,” Sault said.

“There’s all these foods that are native to here, North America.

They didn’t come from Europe or places like that.”

Many of the foods commonly eaten by people around the world originated in the Americas, including most of the foods traditionally eaten at Thanksgiving: turkey, potatoes, squashes, sweet potatoes, corn, green beans, tomatoes, bell peppers, cranberries and pumpkin pies.

While many people know the three sisters, corn, beans and squash, originate in the Americas, many do not know that other popular foods such as chocolate, peanuts, maple syrup, avocado, asparagus, papaya, guava, pineapple, passion fruit, cashews, pecans, brazil nuts, sunflower seeds,

vanilla, wild rice, allspice, quinoa and amaranth also originate in the Americas.

“I’ll probably teach them a little about tobacco as well,” Sault said. “I tell them it’s something that is not really good for you, but we use it for offerings when we take other things from Mother Earth.”

Geese were also on display at the fall harvest.

“We just talked about some of the migratory patterns, what geese we see in this region, what their lifestyle was like, the impact that changing our environment is having on the life of the goose and how that impacts our families and our food sources,” said Lynnita Guillet, Aboriginal education resource at Lakehead Public Schools. “We talked about roles and responsibilities and learning to know where our food comes from so that we will respect the food that comes to our table.”

Guillet said some of the traditional teachings were also shared with the students, including how the wings are returned to the land and placed

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in trees to honour the spirit of the birds and to thank the Creator.

“We talked a little about preparation of that bird and the importance it has in our communities as a major food source,” Guillet said. “And how we can prepare that bird to be eaten throughout the year to provide nutrition for our families.”

Drum teachings were also shared during the fall harvest.

“We were talking about some of the Seven Grandfather teachings,” said Gideon McKay, a Biwasse’aa youth outreach worker. “The kids like the drum a lot, they like the singing and dancing so they will pay good attention. They will just sit down and listen quietly and you can tell when they’re really interested.”

McKay said the fall harvest gives students an opportunity to learn about First Nations culture.

“Not all of them have people who would teach them (about our traditions),” McKay said.

“It’s good that they can learn about our culture.”

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Two Aboriginal students were among those involved with Hammarskjold High School’s inaugural Harvest Friday celebration of two school garden projects.

“I cooked — I helped (the teacher) making all the borscht,” said Joseph Beck, a Grade 12 student at Hammarskjold. “We put onions, carrots, beets in there.”

In addition to helping prepare the borscht, Beck also helped pick the vegetables for the borscht and other soups prepared for the Harvest Friday celebration.

“I always do that with my family,” Beck said about preparing meals. “I do enjoy cooking. I help my family a lot.”

The school’s new gardens were designed and built in 2013 through the combined efforts of the Construction Technology students, the Environmental Science students and the Special Needs students.

“We actually made the garden last fall and in the spring different classes planted the garden,” said Heather Foster, a teacher a Hammarskjold. “And then some garden ambassadors, students who were hired, helped take care of it in the summer.”

Foster said “a bunch of different classes” harvested the garden

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Grade 12 Hammarskjold High School student, second from right, served up some of his borscht to other students during the school’s first Harvest Friday celebration on Sept. 19 in Thunder Bay. this fall.

“The kids were really proud,” Foster said. “A couple of the students who helped plant it last spring came back in September and were amazed to see what had grown.”

The gardens were planted this past spring by the Environmental Science and Special Needs students and a group of summer students were hired by Lakehead Public Schools to care for the gardens, which included kale, Swiss chard, nasturtiums, onions, beets, potatoes, zucchinis and sunflowers, over the summer

with coordination from Roots to Harvest.

“We watered it, planted the seeds, took care of it,” said Munsee Neekan, who is in his final year at Hammarskjold. “Some days we had to come here in the afternoon to water the garden.”

Neekan is considering growing his own garden in the future after taking part in the garden project.

“I may make my own garden some day,” Neekan said.

Foster said Hammarskjold Harvest Friday was a day for the students and staff to celebrate the school’s gardens.

“It’s healthy food and it was grown right here,” Foster said.

“So that is really unique and the students feel quite proud of what they did.”

Hammarskjold’s garden project was developed from other school gardens as well as garden projects across the city.

“It just seemed like it was time, something to do,” Foster said. “We’ve just had wonderful reports from the admin and other teachers and office staff brought in plants to put in the garden.”

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First Nations child advocate Cindy Blackstock recently called for equality during the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority Annual General Meeting at the Lac Seul Event Centre.

“If I were to become prime minister of Canada ... I would actually only have one ministry, and that would be to deal with the inequalities in our own country,” Blackstock said during her Sept. 10 presentation.

“If you deal with the inequalities within your own country, you’re actually going to reduce teen pregnancy rates, you’re going to reduce incarceration rates, you’re going to increase your economy, you’re going

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to get rid of mental health to a large extent, you’re going to reduce substance abuse rates.”

Blackstock, the executive director for the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, said income inequality also contributes to diabetes, coronary problems and many other health issues pervasive among First Nations people.

“The problem in Canada is that (income inequality) gap is widening,” Blackstock said.

“The OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) says the gap is tripling in Canada while it is reducing in places like Brazil because Brazil is understanding that this idea of trickle-down economics has been discredited years ago. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said ‘that is from a dark era that has never worked.’”

Blackstock said recent World Bank statistics show that Canada is ranked at number 11 in terms of the world economy but when UNICEF ranked the richest 29 countries in the world according to how well their children were doing, Canada was at number 17.

“So the economy is doing better than our kids are, which is a huge problem because we all know that the very best investment of any government, First Nations governments, provincial governments, federal governments, is in children,” Blackstock said. “If you invest in kids particularly in the early years, that is going to save you all kinds of money going down the line because you’re raising healthy children who are going to become very healthy young men and women who are proud of who they are.”

Blackstock said a European organization, the Kids Rights Foundation, recently ranked Canada at number 60 according to the proportion of the country’s wealth that was spent on children.

“So the Republic of Moldova (number 51) ranks more highly than Canada does,” Blackstock said. “China (number 57) is investing more in proportion to its wealth in children than we are.”

Blackstock said the ranking is for all the children in the country.

“So if we were to take out the population of First Nations children, you can just imagine where they would be in the world,” Blackstck said.

“Because Indian Affairs did this human development index that ranks the countries best in the world places to live. In the year that Canada was number one in the world, First Nations were at 63 in the world, down there with Peru.”

Blackstock said Canada and Ontario are not doing what they can for First Nations children.

“We have independent measures from all over the world telling us that is the case,” Blackstock said.

Blackstock also spoke about Jordan’s Principle, noting the case of the young Cree boy from Norway House Cree Nation who died in a Winnipeg hospital, which resulted in the development of the principle.

“If he was not Aboriginal he would have gone home and the government of Manitoba would have paid for his care,” Blackstock said. “But because he was a First Nations child, whose family lived on reserve, they decided to keep this kid in the hospital because FNIHB (First Nations Inuit Health Branch), INAC (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada) and the Manitoba government could not agree on who would pay for his home support.”

Blackstock said Jordan died in the hospital after two-and-ahalf years without spending a day his home community.

“Jordan’s father and the family asked only one thing (after Jordan died),” Blackstock said.

“Please don’t let this happen to another child anywhere in the country again. So that is where Jordan’s Principle comes from.”

Jordan’s Principle calls on the government of first contact to pay for the services and seek reimbursement later so the child does not get tragically caught in the middle of government red tape.

“There shouldn’t be extra hoops to jump, there shouldn’t be pre-approvals when there aren’t pre-approvals for anyone else,” Blackstock said. “They put the needs of the child first and argue about who is going to pay for it second.”

Although Jordan’s Principle was unanimously passed in the House of Commons in 2007, the Canadian Paediatric Society reports that neither the federal government or the provincial and territorial governments have fully implemented Jordan’s Principle.

“While almost all provinces and territories have adopted Jordan’s Principle, First Nations children continue to be the victims of administrative impasses,” states the Canadian Paediatric Society 2012 report: Are We Doing Enough?, which is available at http://www. cps.ca/advocacy/StatusReport2012.pdf. “The Canadian Paediatric Society urges governments to implement Jordan’s Principle without delay, to work in partnership with First Nations communities on its implementation, and to provide First Nations children and youth with the care they are entitled to.”

Blackstock asked the delegates in attendance to sign on to Jordan’s Principle during her presentation.

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Lakehead University’s Victoria Bolduc, front, and a group of Fall Harvest participants celebrated the repair of the teepee that was slashed last year at the university’s sweat lodge site by painting images of three wolves and a Thunderbird on its canvas cover.

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Lakehead University hosted a community teepee painting during its annual Fall Harvest to celebrate the repair of a teepee that was slashed and damaged last year.

“The bigger teepee was slashed last year and damaged, so we had it repaired,“ said Victoria Bolduc, Lakehead University’s Aboriginal transitions advisor, during the Sept. 20 event at the university’s sweat lodge site. “Our way of giving it a positive new beginning is by having a community teepee painting today.”

Two images were painted on the teepee, one of three wolves howling towards the moon and another of a Thunderbird.

“We’re the (Lakehead University) Thunderwolves, so the colours I chose for (the wolves) piece are different shades of blues, yellows with some pinks in there,” Bolduc said. “Inside the Thunderbird (piece) there is a silhouette of Thunder Mountain to honour the traditional territory we are on and put that sense of pride into our students and the people who are able to come see it.”

Bolduc has seen a positive response to the teepee painting proposal.

“People are excited to help come paint,” Bolduc said.

“And I’m happy to talk to them about woodlands style painting. We have a lot of amazing artists and art styles from this area, so I’m always happy to see people who are interested in learning about that.”

In addition to the community teepee painting, the Fall Harvest also featured sweat

lodge teachings, a medicine walk, children’s crafts, storytelling, moccasin-making, beading, bannock, tea and fried fish.

Sweat lodge keeper Gene Nowegijick usually speaks about the Grandfathers and the four elements of life during his sweat lodge ceremonies.

“I do a lot of teachings on how this (sweat lodge) ceremony works and how you set it up,” Nowegijick said. “Our people, the Ojibwa people, have always had the sweat lodge ceremony. It is a way of life based on the female, the woman, Mother Earth.

When you go in the lodge, it is based on the rebirth ceremony.”

Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Lakehead University’s vice prevost, Aboriginal Initiatives, was happy to see the students painting the repaired teepee.

“We had it repaired and it looks lovely,” Wesley-Esquimaux said. “At the same time we had another teepee donated. We were going to paint that one, but it was already painted when we put it up. We were surprised so we decided to paint the one that we already had.”

Wesley-Esquimaux said the Fall Harvest is an important event for Thunder Bay. “It brings people who do not normally get a chance to participate in any kind of indigenous or Aboriginal activity out to share some time, food, song and recreation,” Wesley-Esquimaux said. “If you look around you at these events, there is a very big mixture of people here, and I think that is Lakehead’s contribution to bringing people together in a good way.”

INSPECTION Inspection of Approved Slash Pile Burning English River, Wabigoon and Dryden Forest The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) invite you to inspect the MNRF-approved prescribed burn plan for slash pile burning that will be carried out in the English River, Wabigoon and Dryden Forest (see map).

As part of our ongoing efforts to regenerate and protect Ontario’s forests, some recently harvested areas have been selected to be burned under the strict guidelines of the MNRF Prescribed Burn Planning Manual. The prescribed burn will reduce the area covered in slash piles while increasing the area available for regeneration and reducing the fire hazard. The burn is scheduled for ignition between October 14, 2014 and December 31, 2014.

Information about this prescribed burn project, including specific locations and maps, is available for public viewing at the offices of Resolute FP Canada Inc., Domtar Inc. and Dryden Forest Management Company during normal business hours and the MNRF public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning September 16, 2014. Ontario Government Information Centres in Toronto and ServiceOntario offices in the Thunder Bay Regional office, the Dryden District and/or Ignace area offices provide Internet access.

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Holistic care for patients with opioid addictions is now available at the Joseph Esquega Health Centre in Thunder Bay. “Anyone is welcome — we accept all patients within Thunder Bay and also we make every effort to work with different communities all to provide service in the region,” said Cheryl Everall, medical director of the Joseph Esquega Health Centre. “It’s in the heart of the busyness of this side of Thunder Bay, close to the bus depot, so it provides easy access for patients. It is also in an area where we know a lot of patients with opioid dependence live, so we’ve tried to provide a facility that is easy to get to to reduce barriers to access to care.”

Everall said the numbers of people with opioid addictions is currently unknown in Thunder Bay due to a lack of research studies on the issue.

“However, we do know there are high rates of opioid dependance and addiction in patients with poverty, homelessness and various other issues,” Everall said. “The centre was opened based on two years on empiricallybased research looking at what our needs are in the community. We opened it to fill gaps in healthcare to reduce marginalization.”

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“The centre was created to fill gaps in health care that currently exists and to provide patients with a stigmafree non-judgmental environment so they can seek treatment and get appropriate medical care,” Everall said.

“We treat the entire patient, not just the addiction. We are a family medicine-based clinic, so we treat babies, we treat the elderly, we treat all spectrum of life, but we also offer our Bridges program, which allows our high-risk patients access to medical care.”

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Research by the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network indicated that the Thunder Bay district had the highest annual standardized opioid-related mortality rate in Ontario at 13 deaths per 100,000 population from 2006-2010, which adds up to 88 deaths over those five years. The average age of the deceased was 41.1, with males accounting for 63 per cent.

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Ontario Court of Justice Court Locations: Barrie, Brampton (3), Cochrane*, Haileybury, Kitchener (3), London, London*, Ottawa (3), Ottawa (Bilingual–2), Owen Sound, Pembroke (Bilingual), Thunder Bay, Timmins, Toronto, Toronto (Bilingual) Please check www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/jpaac/advertisements for an updated listing of advertised vacancies.

At the request of the Attorney General and in accordance with the Justices of the Peace Act, the Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee invites applications for vacant Justice of the Peace positions in the Province of Ontario.

A Justice of the Peace is an independent judicial officer who presides in court over various proceedings under federal and provincial statutes. Applicants must meet minimum qualifications as set out in the Justices of the Peace Act. The Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee reviews and evaluates applications and classifies candidates as “Not Qualified”, “Qualified” or “Highly Qualified”.

Classifications are reported to the Attorney General, who recommends candidates for Order-in-Council appointments to the Ontario Court of Justice.

In addition to reflecting the diversity of Ontario’s population, applicants should also display the fundamental skills and abilities, personal characteristics and community awareness attributes set out in the Committee’s General Selection Criteria.

Bilingual positions require a high degree of proficiency in English as well as a superior level of oral and written proficiency in French. As First Nations people comprise a large percentage of the population in the areas being serviced by the courts in *Cochrane and *London, we especially encourage people of Aboriginal heritage and people with an in-depth understanding of Aboriginal communities and the issues affecting those communities to apply for these vacancies.

For detailed information about the vacancies noted above, minimum qualifications and the General Selection Criteria, the required application form, and the Committee’s process, please visit the website of the Justices of the Peace Appointments Advisory Committee at www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/jpaac.

Applications for current vacancies must be submitted on the current prescribed application form and received by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, October 31, 2014. Applications received after this date WILL NOT be considered.

PLEASE NOTE: Future vacancies and deadlines for applications will be posted on the Committee’s website as they occur. Interested individuals can receive e-mail notification of vacancies by registering at www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/jpaac/advertisements/vacancy-postings.

Pour voir cette annonce en français, consulter le site Web du Comité à www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/fr/jpaac/annonces.

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Domtar Inc., Dryden Operations, is currently seeking a Mechanical Engineering Technician/Technologist to join the Dryden team. A progressive community set between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay, Dryden offers excellent medical, educational and recreational facilities.

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Summary of Position: To ensure that the healing and wellness needs of the Aboriginal community are addressed by implementing the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy at the local level in order to reduce family violence, promote healthy lifestyles, culture-based programming and healing.

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Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre Executive Director INTERNAL/EXTERNAL POSTING KEY DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS Under the authority of the Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre Board of Directors: • Manages the human, financial, property and material resources of the Friendship Centre and administers the day to day operations of the Centre.

• Maintains a high level of knowledge of Aboriginal culture, lifestyles of Aboriginal people, Aboriginal programs and services, and government initiatives relevant to services for urban Aboriginal people.

• Ensures that priority issues and concerns for the NGFC Aboriginal Community are designed to improve and enhance the overall well-being of Urban Aboriginal people.

• Ensures sustainability of the Centre through fundraising, identifying new program funding, writing proposals, and partnering with other agencies, corporations and organizations.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS • Graduation from a recognized post secondary institution, with a specialization in business administration, non-profit management or another area of study relevant to the position. A combination of training, education and experience may also be considered.

• Minimum 3 years experience as an administrator in a non-profit organization.

• Extensive experience in community development; specifically in relation to services for the urban Aboriginal population.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with various levels of government, service stakeholders, the business sector and community members.

• Highly skilled in strategic planning, and program development, implementation and evaluation.

• Experience working under the governance of a Board of Directors.

• Sound knowledge of the culture and traditional practices of First Nation people in the Sioux Lookout region, with preference for language fluency in Ojibwe, Oji-Cree and/or Cree.

• Must have a valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle.

• Must provide an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Vulnerable Person’s Sector Check prior to hire-date.

For a complete job description, please email bdovick@ngfc.net Qualified candidates are asked to submit a cover letter and resume to:

CHW Coordinator Internal/External Posting Full Time (two year term) Sioux Lookout, On Diabetes has been identified as a high priority health issue impacting First Nations communities in the Sioux Lookout Zone. The Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority (SLFNHA) and Dignitas International (DI), a non-governmental medical and research organization, have formed a partnership to improve community-based diabetes prevention, management and care in the 31 communities which SLFNHA serves. A core element of our initiative will be to develop a customized capacity building program for community health workers (CHWs), based on Canadian clinical guidelines and international best practices. The CHW Coordinator will play a key role in this initiative by leading the implementation of a CHW pilot project in participating First Nations communities.

S/he will collaborate with SLFNHA and DI’s joint project team to undertake planning processes with community leaders and health system providers, develop and implement a training curriculum, act as a mentor and quality improvement coach, and oversee the collection of monitoring and evaluation data.

Qualifications: • Nursing, health education, MPH or similar relevant education, or a combination of a university degree and extensive public health experience

Knowledge & Ability: Preferred: Essential: • Experience or strong familiarity with designing, • Experience in coordinating, implementing and developing and implementing professional level evaluating training / adult education programming, training materials / tools, preferably in the area of and in providing mentoring, coaching and primary care capacity-building support • Solid technical understanding of and/or • Experience working with First Nations experience with Quality Improvement (QI) communities in rural, remote and on-reserve methods (e.g. PDSA cycles), including the settings and advanced knowledge of related development and implementation of standardized community health issues processes in clinical / organizational settings • Proven track record in developing professional • organizational settings relationships with different health system • Solid technical understanding of diabetes and providers and community health leaders other primary health issues and programming • Strong oral and written (e.g. report writing) • Experience with monitoring and evaluation, communication skills community-based research and knowledge • Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills translation methodologies including demonstrated ability to work productively • Ability to speak in a local dialect would be an in highly collaborative settings while also asset functioning independently • Skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint

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

Deadline for Application: October 24/14 at 4:30 pm As an organization that committed to serving Aboriginal people we encourage Aboriginal candidates to apply.

We wish to thank all those who have applied, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Candidates called for an interview will be responsible for their own travel expenses and the successful candidate will be responsible for his/her own relocation expenses.

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The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance. However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

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sgdn Ensuring Community Well-Being

Assurer le bien-être de la collectivité

Canada’s plan for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel involves the construction of a national repository and a Centre of Expertise in an area with an informed and willing host. The NWMO is committed to implementing the project in a way that fosters the well-being of the community and the surrounding area.

Le plan du Canada pour la gestion à long terme du combustible nucléaire irradié comprend la construction d’un dépôt national et d’un centre d’expertise au sein d’une région hôte informée et consentante. La SGDN s’engage à mettre en œuvre le projet d’une manière à assurer le bien-être de la collectivité et de la région environnante.

Q. Why “community well-being”?

Q. Pourquoi le « bien-être de la collectivité »?

A. Ensuring safety is always the number one priority. Any community and

R. La sûreté est notre plus grande priorité. La collectivité et le site qui seront choisis

Q. How is “community well-being” defined?

Q. Comment définit-on le « bien-être de la collectivité »?

A. Only the community can decide what is in its long-term interest and

R. Seule la collectivité peut déterminer ce qui est dans son intérêt à long terme

site that is selected to host this facility must be demonstrated to be able to safely contain and isolate used nuclear fuel for a very long period of time. Beyond ensuring safety, Canada’s plan will be implemented in a way that contributes to the long-term well-being or quality of life of the community and area.

whether this project will help the community both protect what is important and help achieve the community’s long-term goals and objectives. Each community may define “well-being” differently. A broad approach will help highlight the resources (social, economic, cultural, environmental) of the community and pave the way for thinking about how the project may affect the community in a variety of ways. Depending on the community’s vision for itself, this may include a broad range of elements, such as:

pour accueillir cette installation devront avoir fait l’objet d’une démonstration de leur aptitude à confiner et à isoler à très long terme et de manière sûre le combustible nucléaire irradié. Au-delà de la sûreté, le plan canadien sera mis en œuvre de manière à contribuer au bien-être à long terme ou qualité de vie de la collectivité et de la région.

et si ce projet l’aidera à préserver ce qui est important pour elle ainsi qu’à atteindre ses buts et objectifs à long terme. Chaque collectivité peut définir son « bien-être » différemment. En utilisant une approche globale, la collectivité pourra plus facilement cerner les ressources (sociales, économiques, culturelles, environnementales) dont elle dispose et amorcer une réflexion sur les diverses manières dont le projet pourrait influer sur son mode de vie. Selon la vision que la collectivité a définie pour elle-même, cette approche pourrait inclure un large éventail d’éléments, par exemple :

Safety and security Economic health The environment Cultural dimensions Spiritual dimensions Social conditions Enhancing opportunities for people and communities

La sûreté et la sécurité La santé économique L’environnement Les dimensions culturelles Les dimensions spirituelles Les conditions sociales L’augmentation des possibilités offertes aux citoyens et aux collectivités

The project offers significant employment and income to the host community, area and province. However, with a project of this size and nature, there is the potential to contribute to social and economic pressures that must be carefully managed. The NWMO is working with communities to identify the processes and supports the NWMO would need to put in place to ensure the project helps foster well-being.

Le projet constituera une source importante d’emplois et de revenus pour la collectivité hôte, la région et la province. Toutefois, un projet de cette envergure et de cette nature pourrait également contribuer à accroître les pressions sociales et économiques, lesquelles devront être gérées avec soin. La SGDN travaille avec les collectivités à identifier les processus et le soutien que la SGDN devra mettre en place afin que le projet favorise le bien-être de la collectivité.

In order to ensure that well-being is fostered, the project will require a partnership among the NWMO, the interested community, First Nation and Métis communities, and surrounding municipalities. With planning, the project has potential to be used as an economic engine to achieve the vision and objectives of an area.

Pour assurer le bien-être de la collectivité, il sera essentiel de mettre en œuvre le projet dans le cadre d’un partenariat regroupant la SGDN, la collectivité intéressée, les collectivités Premières Nations et Métis, et les municipalités environnantes. Une planification judicieuse permettrait au projet de servir de moteur économique pour la réalisation de la vision et des objectifs d’une région.

Q. How is the NWMO supporting communities?

A. The NWMO encourages communities, early in the site selection process, to consider this project in the context of their long-term interests. The NWMO provides resources to communities in the site selection process to develop a community sustainability vision or plan. This is designed to help the community in thinking about whether or not this project does or does not align with the long-term objectives, goals and interests of the community. Assessment studies, currently underway, are designed to help answer this question.

Q. Comment la SGDN soutient-elle les collectivités?

R. La SGDN encourage les collectivités dès le début du processus de sélection

Jo-Ann Facella is the Director of Social Research and Dialogue at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. She has worked for prominent public opinion firms (Gallup Canada and Goldfarb Consultants) and as Senior Advisor at Ontario Power Generation before joining the NWMO in 2002. Over the past 20 years, her work has focused on public involvement in policy making, and in particular, societal needs and expectations concerning the long-term management of used nuclear fuel. Ms. Facella has a master’s degree in Political Science.

“Ask the NWMO” is an advertising feature published regularly in this and other community newspapers to respond to readers’ questions about Canada’s plan for managing used nuclear fuel over the long term and its implementation. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization welcomes your questions. Please forward your questions to askthenwmo@nwmo.ca.

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d’un site à considérer ce projet dans le contexte de ses intérêts à long terme.

Dans le cadre du processus de sélection d’un site, la SGDN donne aux collectivités accès à des ressources pour se définir une vision ou un plan de viabilité à long terme. Le but de cet exercice est d’aider la collectivité à déterminer si ce projet favorise l’atteinte de ses objectifs, buts et intérêts à long terme. Des études ont également été entreprises pour contribuer à évaluer cet aspect du projet.

Jo-Ann Facella est directrice de la recherche sociale et du dialogue à la Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires. Elle a travaillé pour les sociétés renommées de recherche sur l’opinion publique (Gallup Canada et Goldfarb Consultants) ainsi qu’à titre de conseillère principale pour Ontario Power Generation avant de se joindre à l’équipe de la SGDN en 2002.

Au cours des 20 dernières années, ses travaux ont porté sur la participation publique aux décisions politiques et, en particulier, sur les besoins et les attentes de la société concernant la gestion à long terme du combustible nucléaire irradié. Mme Facella détient une maîtrise en sciences politiques.

« Demandez-le à la SGDN » est un encadré publicitaire qui paraîtra régulièrement dans ce journal et dans d’autres journaux de la collectivité pour répondre aux questions que se posent les lecteurs sur le plan canadien de gestion à long terme du combustible nucléaire irradié et de sa mise en oeuvre. La Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires attend vos questions. Veuillez envoyer vos questions à demandez@nwmo.ca.

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