Tastes so good!
Bannock Burgers was a popular eating attraction at The Works Art & Design Festival which took place around Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton.

Arthurson wins big money prize award

“They mine tarsands a couple of miles from my front door,” said Roland Woodward, who lives in Anzac. And from where he stands and watches Highway 63, the traffic flow keeps increasing. “I live in the heart of tarsands.”

Woodward, who is a member of the Fort McMurray First Nation and serves as chair of the Keepers of the Athabasca, is adamant that tarsands development needs to slow down.

“I keep telling people I’m not against industry. I just want it to be more sustainable and more equitable,” he said.

Alberta Regional Chief George Stanley is challenging incumbent Shawn Atleo – and six others – for the position of National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations.

It’s about the importance of treaty, says Stanley, and Atleo, who has completed his first term in the position as leader of the national organization, does not understand that.

The Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat is telling Independent Assessment claimants who filed with Blott & Company not to panic in light of the BC Supreme Court’s decision to disallow the Calgary law firm from continuing to represent IAP clients.

“The Adjudication Secretariat and (Ian) Pitfield want to assure you that your claim will be resolved in a fair and competent manner. Our goal is to minimize the distress and inconvenience that you may experience in this matter,” says the IRSAS in an information sheet posted on the IAP website.

Conditions set in an equity agreement an alleged 60 per cent of Aboriginal groups along the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline route have signed with Enbridge are being called “aggressive.”

From being accused of using money from foreign interest groups to now having protests against oil sands development targeted as acts of terrorism, action taken by First Nations continues to come under scrutiny by the government.

A new report released by the Native Women’s Association of Canada draws a strong connection between Aboriginal girls and women serving time and the inter-generational impacts of Indian residential schools.

“I don’t think we’ve had a report in the past that puts all of these things together in one way, drawing clearly those links between residential schools… and incarcerations,” said Fiona Meyer-Cook, project lead and research and policy analyst for NWAC.

The “Ready to Work: Cooking and Serving” program graduated its first students in May. The 12-week program, which was a partnership between Southeast Regional College, Cowessess First Nation and Saskatchewan Tourism Education Council, received funding from Workplace Essential Skills Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Indian Training Assessment Group Inc. “We’re bringing the training to where the students are,” Gloria Stevenson, Aboriginal consultant with Southeast Regional College told The Grenfell Sun/Broadview Express.

The Green Light Program: Building on Success and Celebrating Smoke-Free Homes in Métis Communities and Battlefords Family Health Centre: Change Can Happen with a Smoke Free Community!

The Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saskatoon Health Region to provide more jobs for grads in the health field. “It formalizes and furthers our relationship so we can work together and it will benefit everyone in Saskatchewan, including our well-deserving students,” said Randell Morris, SIIT president and CEO. Bursaries and scholarships to allow First Nations and Métis youth to access health careers as well as working directly with regional training institutions to bridge people into jobs are part of the MOU.