CBC – Feb 14, 2017 Shannen Koostachin spoke openly about deplorable conditions she and other aboriginal students had to deal with in their schools on First Nation reserves. The young activist from Attawapiskat First Nation, Ont., took her message to Parliament Hill in 2009, to demand the federal government provide better, safer schools for students living on reserves.
art House – Feb 6, 2017 Long before Drake nicknamed Toronto “The 6ix” some French explorers and a cartographer prone to typos borrowed from the Mohawk word “Tkaronto” to give the city its name. How “Tkaronto” came to be known as “Toronto” is a long, convoluted – and debated – story. But as Hart House’s new “Talking Walls”
TBT News – Jan 22, 2017 The Lakehead District Public School board says the growing popularity of its Native Studies and Native Language programs has resulted in an expansion to additional schools. Already provided at each of the board's four high schools and three elementary schools (Algonquin, Ecole Gron Morgan and the school in Armstrong,) instruction in Ojibwe
Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal – Nov 20, 2015 First Nations chiefs from across Ontario are meeting this week with Liberal cabinet ministers to discuss aboriginal issues. Pegged as the Leaders in the Legislature event, the roundtable discussions are focusing on key issues including resource benefits, revenue sharing, treaty awareness, and missing and murdered indigenous women
