Rick Garrick — Wawatay News

Sachigo Lake, Lac Seul and Sandy Lake were the big winners at the 2013 Little Bands Native Youth Hockey Tournament, held Feb. 11-17 in Dryden.
“The Sachigo teams were pretty good,” said Little Bands tournament organizer Stephan Fiddler, noting they won the A-Side Atom and the B-Side Peewee championships and were runners-up in the A-Side Bantam, the A-Side Novice and the B-Side Midget championships.
This year’s Little Bands tournament attracted more than 600 players, coaches, parents and fans.

Home repair tips and techniques were highlighted by home improvement guru Jon Eakes during the 11th Annual First Nations Northern Housing Conference.
“We see of lot of home maintenance issues — a lot of minor drywall repairs that need to be done, people hanging up pictures,” said Chris Price, technical services advisor with Bimose Tribal Council. “Storage is always an issue with homes nowadays, so by providing these simple little tips and techniques we were hoping to alleviate some of the issues that we are having with drywall repairs, drywall anchors.”

Although some of the Kashechewan Inquest recommendations relating to Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) have been completed, others have yet to be acted on.
The 2009 inquest into the deaths of two men while in custody in Kashechewan came up with 86 recommendations, which included a number targeted at NAPS.
Acting police chief Bob Herman said that a number of detachments still need work.

Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Acting Chief of Police Robert Herman is calling for the same policing standards as other police forces.
“We’re still a program, and that is one of the problems — we shouldn’t be a program,” Herman said. “We should be legislated, we should be afforded the same opportunities as the national police force, the provincial police force and the municipal police forces.

Lakehead University students have raised concerns about changes to the Faculty of Law’s indigenous course, saying the changes will reduce the new program’s focus on indigenous issues.
“The course before this change would have been taught by Indigenous Learning faculty and now it’s taught by law faculty,” said Sebastian Murdoch-Gibson, an Indigenous Learning student.