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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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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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Shirley Wood running for greater good

The Rome Marathon in March will likely be Shirley Wood’s last.
“This is my last run,” Wood, a former Sandy Lake resident who now lives in St. Theresa Point, Man., said. “I’m tired of running...

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