Helping Native patients navigate cancer care system
By Norm Tollinsky Northern Ontario Medical Journal Special to the Anishinabek News “Too often in the past,” says Alethea Kewayosh, director of Cancer Care Ontario’s...
Dr. Toulouse gets teaching award
SUDBURY – Dr. Pamela Rose Toulouse has been named the recipient of Laurentian University’s Teaching Excellence Award for Full-Time Faculty for 2013-2014. An Associate Professor...
Hospital staff get lessons in healing
CURVE LAKE FIRST NATION – Staff from Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) have participated in training workshops in the nearest First Nation’s community centre to...
Pic Mobert to be six times bigger
PIC MOBERT FN – Citizens of this northwestern Ontario First Nation hope that expanding their land base by 500% will...
Send kids to nutrition school
By Sarah Blackwell An estimated 30 per cent of children across Canada are obese or overweight, and Aboriginal children experience higher rates of obesity than...
Teaching treaties one brick at a time
By Marci Becking NORTH BAY –The world’s first LEGO wampum belt was unveiled at the Nipissing/Canadore Campus on the first day of spring. The...
Lawyers want missing and murdered women inquiry
By Kim Covert For Canadian Bar Association TORONTO – Few were surprised last week when the federal government announced it would not follow up the...
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Doctors study traditional medicine
By Christine Smith McFarlane TORONTO – The University of Toronto is introducing Indigenous teachings into its medical school curriculum. “This is a really exciting endeavour...
‘Education Act a distraction from 18-year process’: Madahbee
THUNDER BAY (March 20, 2014 ) – Anishinabek Nation Chiefs are concerned that the government’s proposed First Nations education legislation ignores 18 years of negotiations...
Water plant launch sacred occasion
By Leslie Knibbs SERPENT RIVER FN – Launching the building of a new water treatment plant was a sacred occasion for Serpent River First Nation....
‘Be happy to work hard’: Olympic skier
By Laura Robinson Inuk Olympic athlete Jesse Cockney was a three-year-old and living in Yellowknife when he first put on a pair of cross-country...
Involve auditors sooner, avoid problems later in setting up trusts
By Marci Becking TORONTO – Kelly Rodgers, president of Rodgers Investment Consulting, says that First Nations need to make sure their auditors are involved...
Passengers relying on airpower
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN – With this winter’s solid freeze-up on Georgian Bay, the people of Chimnissing are doing without ferries and relying on...
Hat trick for Little NHL coach
By Sam Laskaris MISSISSAUGA — For the third straight year Shaun Assiniwai coached a team to a championship at the Little Native Hockey League Tournament....