Awards night for Native grads
SUDBURY – Cameron Debassige of Barrydowne College was a big winner, taking home a new laptop computer from the June 6 Annual Aboriginal Secondary School...
First Nations kids poorest in Canada
OTTAWA – Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children, according to a...
Canadore grad wins volunteer award
NORTH BAY – Recent Canadore College graduate Annette Chiblow is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award. The award recognizes an...
Our students’ dreams matter, too
Over 100 community members — including Cooper Taylor and Patrick Gunsolus –turned out to support the June 11 “Our Dreams Matter Too” walk in Curve...
Honoured alumna ‘walking history book’
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY — Lakehead University has recognized their “walking history book” with an Alumni Honour Award. “I feel like I’m a walking...
Fisheries centre has new manager
By Maureen Peltier NORTH BAY– At June’s Annual Grand Council Assembly of the Anishinabek Nation in Munsee-Delaware, Anishinabek/Ontario Fisheries Resource Centre chairperson Cliff Meness introduced...
Idle No More inspired ‘Nish boys
MONTREAL – Two Anishinabek Nation boys are winners in the 2013 Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge conducted by the Historica-Dominion Institute. Robert McCue, 16,...