Moose Cree artist Duane Linklater is raising concerns about the environment through his video art exhibition: Something About Encounter.
Lac Seul First Nation is developing a culinary school and restaurant in an old grocery store in Hudson.
The contributions of 16 Aboriginal partners were celebrated on the third anniversary of Thunder Bay’s adoption of the Aboriginal Liaison Strategy.
Deer Lake’s Antonia Meekis and two other Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School students, along with three student buddies, were recently awarded iPad minis for quitting smoking.
“I thought it would be really hard at first, but once I got my mind off it and began hanging around the people who didn’t smoke, then I did it,” Meekis said after the March 28 tobacco-free awards ceremony. “It feels really good — I’m glad I’m tobacco free.”
Two northwestern Ontario Aboriginal health access centres are looking to add physicians and offer more primary and traditional care programs thanks to recently announced increases in provincial funding.
Eabametoong’s Ma-Nee Chacaby called for an end to Elder abuse in a recently released Thunder Bay Police Elder Abuse video.
“If you see something going on, say something,” said Chacaby, who narrated the video. “Don’t hold back.”
Chacaby and Thunder Bay Police Service Det. Const. Diane MacLaurin launched the video on April 24 to create more awareness of the issue among First Nations people.
J-G Grocery in Constance Lake is looking to deliver lower-priced groceries to remote communities across the north.
“I’m working on Attawapiskat first and trying to get more customers from Kashechewan and Fort Albany,” said Stephen John-George, owner of J-G Grocery. “We’ve shipped two plane loads to Attawapiskat so far. We’re trying to let more people know about it.”
John-George shipped the food, which is subsidized under the Nutrition North Canada program, on a Hearst Air aircraft from nearby Carey Lake, located about a 10-minute drive from Constance Lake.
Talk4Healing coordinator Robin Haliuk and seven other Talk4Healing staff are looking forward to exercising regularly during this year’s Mocc Walk Challenge.
“Talk4Healing has two teams entering this year,” said Haliuk, a Metis woman originally from southern Ontario. “We’re excited to get active and fit and collect points for every 10 minutes of walking. As somebody that has that (family) line of diabetes, that is one way to prevent it and get healthy and have fun with friends.”
Juno-award nominee Don Amero recently performed for youth at schools in a number of Treaty #3 communities.
“I did an hour-long session with the kids and I shared my story, played a few songs and answered some questions the kids might have had about music as a career or even life questions about something they might be going through and how I overcame some of the things I went through,” Amero said. “It has always been a goal of mine to inspire students to do what I do and hopefully I inspired a few.”
Aboriginal paintings and an Aboriginal Advisory Committee were recently introduced at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, but ongoing efforts are needed to improve Aboriginal health care.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
I grew up...
I’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues...