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...