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Tom Longboat Day to be marked June 4 across province of Ontario

“This legendary Canadian has been ignored for too long,” Eglinton-Lawrence M.P.P. Mike Colle said after Ontario members of...

Sharing John Paishk’s drum with the world

Four years after witnessing the drumming and dancing at Sandy Lake, I photographed John Paishk of Red Lake, Ont., with his...

Beaver animal of choice in Mattagami

It was a beautiful day to visit Mattagami First Nation April 24 to check out the annual Beaverfest celebration in the...

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OPP helps patrol Aroland

NAPS juggles ‘shortfalls’
Ontario Provincial Police from the Greenstone detachment spent several weeks in December policing Aroland First Nation.
That didn’t sit well with at least one...

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Diabetics get reminders via cell phone

Don’t 4get 2 inject!
Keewaytinook Okimakanak-K-Net’s DiabeTEXTS project has been sending diabetes education messages reminding diabetes patients to inject their insulin since beginning...

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Free educational software inspires youth

Free open-source educational resources and educational software are now being used in Sandy Lake, Pikangikum, Kingfisher Lake, Fort Severn and Poplar Hill.
“There are a lot of positive...

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University professor examines century-old treaty

Treaty No. 9: Making the Agreement to Share the Land in Far Northern Ontario in 1905 is a new book by Nipissing University professor John S. Long.
Published by McGill-Queen’s University...

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Time to wind down

‘Let’s try to live a simple and meaningful life in 2011’
This year just before Christmas, while I was travelling in some bigger city centres in southern Ontario, I noticed just how crazy...

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