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Attawapiskat third-party manager “sitting on” funds for new houses: NDP MP Angus
The outside consultant hired by the federal Aboriginal Affairs department to manage Attawapiskat’s finances “is sitting on†funds the community needs to prepare site work for new modular homes awaiting transport to the community, according to NDP MP Charlie Angus.  Attawapiskat Crisis4/29/2012
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Trailers have been delivered to Attawapiskat, but critics say it’s a ‘Band-Aid’ solution only community
(Ontario) -- Almost six months after the federal government put a “Band-Aid” on the housing crisis in Attawapiskat, opposition MPs say there needs to be a...
4/20/2012
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Attawapiskat residents complained to Ottawa about Chief Theresa Spence
(Ottawa) -- Not everyone in the troubled community of Attawapiskat agreed with the way local leadership handled the housing crisis last fall, with some residents going...
4/11/2012
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Attawapiskat will continue pursuing legal action over third-party manager
(Ontario) -- Days after reports surfaced indicating that some post-secondary students from Attawapiskat First Nation weren’t receiving their funding, the federal...
4/8/2012
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Attawapiskat keeps court date with Ottawa over housing crisis
(Ontario) -- The Attawapiskat First Nation says it won't drop legal action against the federal government over the appointment of a third-party manager to handle the...
4/6/2012
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Attawapiskat keeps court date with federal government over housing crisis
(Ontario) -- The Attawapiskat First Nation says it won't drop legal action against the federal government over the appointment of a third-party manager to handle the...
4/5/2012
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Ottawa to remove Attawapiskat’s third-party manager
(Ontario) -- The federal government is pulling the third-party manager who had been handling the finances of the troubled northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat after...
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Attawapiskat's 3rd-party manager to be withdrawn
(Ontario) -- A third-party manager sent to Attawapiskat First Nation to handle the troubled northern Ontario community's money will be pulled out, a federal...
3/15/2012
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Stained glass project helps heal Attawapiskat wounds
(Ontario) -- A project aimed at healing some of the wounds from the residential school system has come to light in Attawapiskat.
3/1/2012
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Angry Canadian students flood aboriginal affairs with angry letters about Attawapiskat school
(Ontario) -- NDP MP Charlie Angus jokingly said that children were pretty quick to see through any political spin about why it has taken more than a decade to replace...
2/24/2012
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Attawapiskat Chief Seeks Assistance of Queen Elizabeth II in Addressing Dire Circumstances
(Ontario) -- The shipment of the modular homes for Attawapiskat is not complete. John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, announced today...
2/23/2012
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Attawapiskat man seeks answers on housing crisis
(Ontario) -- An Attawapiskat man is trying to gather signatures for a petition asking that a third-party manager appointed by the federal government be allowed to come...
2/18/2012
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Aboriginal firm irked by feds' housing snub
(Manitoba) -- What about us? a Kenora company is wondering, after the home-building contract for troubled Attawapiskat First Nation was granted to a new New Brunswick...
2/16/2012
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PHOTOS: The ice road to Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- The northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat gets 2 more houses by convoy
2/15/2012
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Attawapiskat gets 2 more houses by convoy
(Ontario) -- Two more houses arrived at the northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat late Tuesday after a 12-hour trip over 300 kilometres of ice road from Moosonee.
2/14/2012
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Conservative MPs vote against committee Attawapiskat visit
(Ontario) -- Conservative MPs voted together Tuesday against a motion to bring a committee of federal politicians on a visit to Attawapiskat, the northern Ontario Cree...
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More Attawapiskat homes en route over ice road
(Ontario) -- A convoy carrying two more modular homes for the people of Attawapiskat is on its way to the native community facing a housing crisis. The flatbed trucks...
2/13/2012
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Three homes arrive in Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Three new, modern familysized homes have arrived in Attawapiskat, but no one in the northern Ontario First Nation facing a severe housing crisis can move...
2/12/2012
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Al Jazeera’s Got Aboriginals Covered
(Canada) -- The recent public outcry in Canada about the plight of Attawapiskat and other First Nations prompted ongoing media coverage not only throughout the country...
2/11/2012
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Canada mining boom leaves natives in the cold
(Ontario) -- Despite living just 90km from a massive diamond mine, Jackie Hookimaw Witt has watched poverty tear at the fabric of Attawapiskat, an indigenous community...
2/10/2012
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Attawakpiskat modular homes ready for delivery
(Ontario) -- The remote northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat will be receiving this weekend the first two modular homes promised by the federal...
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Homes finally headed to Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- The first of many pre-fabricated homes are finally headed to Attawapiskat, months after the troubled Aboriginal community was thrust into the national...
2/8/2012
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“We’ve learned to live with pain and hurt,” says Attawapiskat resident
(Ontario) -- Twenty-two homes built for Attawapiskat sit hundreds of kilometers in the south waiting for the trip north.
2/7/2012
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Delayed Attawapiskat homes expected to ship soon
(Canada) -- A convoy of modular homes left languishing in Moosonee instead of being en route to desperate residents in Attawapiskat is expected to go on the move again...
2/6/2012
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Attawapiskat court injunction application denied
(Ontario) -- Last Tuesday, the Attawapiskat First Nation went to battle in court to remove a third-party financial manager, but on Friday, they lost their attempt, a...
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Attawapiskat-bound homes delayed
(Canada) -- Modular homes en route to the northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat have been delayed because their lots are not yet ready, CBC News has...
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Hundreds wrote prime minister over Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- The crisis in Attawapiskat made headlines around the world. And the stories moved some Canadians to take action in a number of ways.
2/3/2012
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Attawapiskat homes to start final leg of journey
(Ontario) -- Modular homes destined for the beleaguered First Nation settlement of Attawapiskat could start moving along an ice road next week as the vital link to...
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Attawapiskat loses court battle over 3rd-party manager
(Ontario) -- The Attawapiskat First Nation lost its attempt Friday to stop the federal government's appointment of a third-party manager for the troubled reserve in...
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Attawapiskat warns it could miss payroll under third-party manager
(Ontario) -- First nations in the James Bay region of Northern Ontario say their housing crisis is deepening despite the federal government's recent response to...
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Court rejects Attawapiskat's bid to halt money manager
(Ontario) -- An Ontario reserve's bid to block a government-appointed money manager has been rejected by a Federal Court, but Attawapiskat First Nation says it is...
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Federal Court refuses to remove third-party manager from Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- A Federal Court judge has refused to remove the federal government's third-party manager appointed to handle the affairs of a northern Ontario reserve.
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Third-party manager ordered to release funds for Attawapiskat houses
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat will have to wait until spring to challenge the Harper government over imposition of a third-party manager to handle the community’s...
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UN holds private meeting with native youth
(Canada) -- Chelsea Edwards used to watch mice scamper across the floor while she attended classes in a mouldy Attawapiskat portable. Now the 16-year-old is one of five...
2/2/2012
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OP/ED: The mishandling of the situation in Attawapiskat is coming home to roost
(Ontario) -- The mishandling of the situation in Attawapiskat is coming home to roost on the desk of Minister John Duncan. The Minister doesn’t seem to be capable...
2/1/2012
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Attawapiskat third-party manager “sitting on” funds for new houses: NDP MP Angus
(Ottawa) -- The outside consultant hired by the federal Aboriginal Affairs department to manage Attawapiskat’s finances “is sitting on†funds the...
1/29/2012
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Attawapiskat: Lots of love, and rocks, for a young generation
(Ontario) -- At Micheline Okimaw’s White Wolf Inn, the most popular of the two motels in this remote James Bay reserve, visitors to town tend to cross paths. And...
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Federal government to build long-awaited Attawapiskat elementary school
(Ontario) -- Three decades after Attawapiskat's elementary school closed due to toxic contamination, the beleaguered First Nations reserve in a remote part of...
1/28/2012
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Feds call for tenders to build school in Attawapiskat
(Ottawa) -- The federal government is moving to build an elementary school in Attawapiskat, more than three decades after contamination of the remote northern Ontario...
1/25/2012
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Attawapiskat chief wants 'plan for investment'
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says her First Nations community wants help to move its people forward, but isn't looking for charity or to be taken...
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Attawapiskat chief wants share of revenues from nearby diamond mine
(Ontario) -- Chief Theresa Spence says she has the answer to turning around her troubled aboriginal community of Attawapiskat — getting a share of the resource...
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Native summit fails to ease Attawapiskat’s woes
(Ontario) -- It was the children who got Mike Mantha. Every time. Every time the New Democrat MPP saw with his own eyes the living conditions of families in this James...
1/23/2012
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Attawapiskat not optimistic about Harper meeting
(Ontario) -- When Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with chiefs from across Canada at a gathering in Ottawa, one of the items on the agenda is the chronic housing...
1/13/2012
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Benefit concert planned for Attawapiskat
(Canada) -- Aboriginal musicians Derek Miller and Digging Roots will perform at a benefit concert Jan. 14 to raise funds for the housing crisis in Attawapiskat.
1/12/2012
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First Nation aid group raises funds for furniture
(Ontario) -- A humanitarian aid organization is trying to raise $80,000 to furnish new modular homes for Attawapiskat. The federal department of Aboriginal Affairs is...
1/6/2012
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Attawapiskat stalling payments, government says
(Ontario) -- The federal government is firing back at the leadership of Attawapiskat, saying the third-party manager assigned to the remote northern Ontario community...
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De Beers “no trespassing” signs keep Attawapiskat trapper from following grandfather’s footprints
(Ontario) -- As the community of Attawapiskat continues to cope with a lack of housing, some in the community are lamenting the loss of their hunting and fishing grounds.
1/5/2012
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Durham First Nation reaches out to Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- A plane packed with water purification kits and hygiene supplies took off from the Oshawa Municipal Airport Thursday morning, on its way to the northern...
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Emergency volunteer team distributes $100K in aid in Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- A provincial volunteer team distributed $100,000 in aid to Attawapiskat on Thursday. The First Nations community in northern Ontario declared an emergency...
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Local First Nation has sent OVERT to assist at Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- A local paramedic and police officer are among the small team of emergency workers on the ground in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat, to carry...
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OP/ED: Northern reserves have been separated from their resources
(British Columbia) -- People should move from communities such as Attawapiskat to where they can get a job and become economically self-reliant like the rest of us, the...
1/3/2012
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OP/ED: The problems of Attawapiskat: out of sight, out of mind?
(Ontario) -- Late last year, the Attawapiskat native community declared a state of emergency. While Canada’s government is providing aid to other countries that...
1/2/2012
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Canada’s potential is inseparable from aboriginal potential
(Canada) -- As Canadians come to better understand the depth and complexity of the crisis in many of Canada’s aboriginal communities, lasting solutions to long-...
1/1/2012
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Chief Terrance Nelson: Undeclared Economic Sanctions in Canada
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat First Nation has done a fantastic job of creating debate on the First Nation housing crisis in Canada. The problem is most people still have no...
12/29/2011
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Modular homes on their way to Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Residents of Attawapiskat will be seeing some relief in the coming weeks. Aboriginal Affairs has announced that the twenty-two modular homes are en route to...
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OP/ED; After Attawapiskat, what?
(Ontario) -- When Canadians first saw the news about Attawapiskat they knew that no matter who is at fault, nobody in Canada should be using a plastic bucket for a...
12/28/2011
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Housing En Route to Attawapiskat
(Canada) -- Attawapiskat remains in the public eye as Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in an exclusive interview on CTV, defended oversight measures that effectively...
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Spence: “I’m getting a slap in the face”
(Ontario) -- Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation sits down with APTN National News reporter Ossie Michelin to discuss the challenges her community is...
12/26/2011
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Attawapiskat homes inch across northern Ontario
(Canada) -- The first modular homes destined for Attawapiskat on James Bay’s west coast have made it about half way. The four homes arrived in Cochrane in northern...
12/25/2011
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Attawapiskat healing centre now a temporary shelter, Ottawa says
(Ontario) -- A healing centre in the troubled Attawapiskat reserve has been turned into a temporary shelter as the band struggles with a housing crisis. The retrofitting...
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How one woman is trying to change native people’s health care experience
(Canada) -- The crisis in Attawapiskat has left many Canadians feeling confused and dismayed about how such poor living conditions could exist in this country. It has...
12/22/2011
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Can a bond offering help cure poverty on Native reserves?
(Canada) -- Money, goes conventional wisdom, comes with strings attached. Especially other people’s money. Especially when it comes as lump-sum transfer. And, as...
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Covering the Crisis: Can Mainstream Media Attention Help Attawapiskat Long-Term?
(Ontario) -- Not long ago, few had even heard of Attawapiskat. It’s a remote First Nation community that has gone from relative obscurity to being the center of a...
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MP at odds with grand chief over housing crisis
(Canada) -- Penticton’s federal politician has waded into current events surrounding aboriginal housing, but one First Nations leader is suggesting he put recent...
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National Chief Atleo visits Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Earlier this week, AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo visited Attawapiskat to show support for the embattled community. Atleo was joined by singer Tom Jackson,...
12/21/2011
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Christmas aid, cheer flowing into Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- A Thunder Bay group collecting warm clothing for kids in Attawapiskat received so many donations, it had to change its transportation plans. Organizer Joyce...
12/20/2011
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Attawapiskat a 'deep concern' for UN rights official
(Ontario) -- The United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on Tuesday expressed “deep concern” about conditions in the...
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COLUMN: For first nations, more auditing is not the answer
(Canada) -- The Conservatives have always been deeply suspicious – and it’s a suspicion shared by many Canadians – that vast amounts of public money...
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Ottawa’s handling of Attawapiskat crisis draws UN rebuke
(Ottawa) -- A United Nations official had harsh words for Ottawa Tuesday over the housing crisis in Attawapiskat, calling conditions in the first-nations community...
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Stephen Harper shunning Attawapiskat, Bob Rae says
(Ontario) -- Despite cajoling by the federal opposition parties, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not be paying a visit to the troubled Ontario first-nation of...
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UN Indigenous peoples rapporteur expresses “deep concern” over Attawapiskat housing crisis
(Ottawa) -- The UN official tasked with monitoring the situation of Indigenous peoples around the world has contacted the Canadian government to express “deep...
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UN official faults Canada's handling of Attawapiskat settlement
(Canada) -- Canadian government has come under fire from James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. "I have been in communication...
12/19/2011
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Atleo leading delegation to visit Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo is leading a delegation to visit Attawapiskat Tuesday. Atleo will be joined by Akwesasne Grand Chief...
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BLOG: Winter Arriving Faster Than Help in Attawapiskat Crisis
(Ontario) -- People in the Northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat are living in crowded, unsanitary, tents heated by makeshift wood stoves. It has been almost two...
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Donations of kitchen items sought for Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Local aboriginal communities are asking Peterborough residents to donate pots, pans, serving trays and utensils to help assist the displaced people of...
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Government officials to create temporary shelter in Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Government officials hope to transform a healing lodge into temporary shelter at a troubled Ontario reserve by Christmas. The government's priority this...
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Mohawk Council Grand Cheif Mike Mitchell Tours Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell will travel to the Attawapiskat First Nation on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, along with...
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Rae notes reserve's plight not unique
(Canada) -- Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae travelled to the troubled Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario Saturday, to witness the residents' living conditions...
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Tehran urges UN to investigate conditions of Canada’s First Nations
(Iran) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast on Friday called on the United Nations to appoint a special rapporteur to investigate the violation of...
12/18/2011
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Bob Rae urges PM Harper to visit Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Liberal Leader Bob Rae is accusing the Conservatives and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of showing a "lack of respect" toward the troubled First...
12/17/2011
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Editorial: One thing about Attawapiskat: Where has all the money gone?
(Ontario) -- The remote native reserve of Attawapiskat in northern Ontario made headlines recently for all the usual reasons. According to the last census, the reserve...
12/16/2011
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A Christmas wish list for our many Attawapiskats
(Ontario) -- They may be closer to the North Pole, but the aboriginal people of Northern Ontario have a much harder time grabbing Santa's attention, apparently, than...
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Attawapiskat chief files court injunction against third-party manager: reports
(Ontario) -- Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan met with the chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation on Thursday, amid reports that she has filed a court...
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Attawapiskat healing lodge retrofit approval needed
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan says he is "hopeful" that a healing lodge on the remote Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat can be retrofitted...
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Duncan to Chief Spence: let our people onto Attawapiskat, please
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan requested again Friday that government housing officials be allowed onto the northern Ontario First Nation of...
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Lorne Gunter: Attawapiskat wants the money, not the manager
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and his parliamentary secretary, Greg Rickford, met with leaders from the James Bay Cree community of Attawapiskat...
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COLUMN: How first nations can own their future
(Canada) -- Reports of people living in tents and shacks at Attawapiskat evoke comparisons with the Third World, with people living in the shantytowns of South Africa...
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Ottawa’s assurances on third-party management for Attawapiskat fall flat
(Ottawa) -- Even a brief period under third-party management is too much for Attawapiskat, according to a local grand chief. Stan Louttit of the Mushkegowuk Council,...
12/15/2011
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Attawapiskat chief files court injunction against third-party manager: reports
(Ontario) -- A meeting Thursday between federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Therese Spence wasn't enough to keep the...
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Attawapiskat Chief Spence takes battle with Ottawa to court
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she’s going to court against Aboriginal Affairs to challenge the department’s decision to impose a third-...
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Attawapiskat seeks injunction to block new manager
(Ontario) -- The leaders of a troubled Ontario reserve are applying for a court injunction to block a government-appointed manager from "taking over" the...
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Band takes legal action
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat First Nation is taking legal action against the federal government over a third-party manager sent to the remote reserve to help it through a...
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Christmas gifts for Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- When the images of conditions on the Attawapiskat First Nation hit the news, many were shocked. Even “Santa” was horrified by what he saw.
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Duncan promises new school for Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- The troubled northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat will remain under third-party management for now, but Aboriginal Affairs Minister John...
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Minister won’t back down on Attawapiskat overseer
(Ottawa) -- Ottawa and Attawapiskat agree on everything except who controls the band’s purse strings — but that’s a major schism that could impede...
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Attawapiskat creating delays at Aboriginal Affairs
(Ottawa) -- The federal department responsible for much of what goes on in the remote northern reserve of Attawapiskat appears to be overwhelmed by the amount of public...
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Minister won't back down on Attawapiskat overseer, but promises school soon
(Ottawa) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan says he intends to keep the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation under third-party management — for now. But...
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Ottawa promises school – but won't budge on Attawapiskat overseer
(Ottawa) -- Ottawa and Attawapiskat agree on everything except who controls the band's purse strings, a major schism that could impede progress on the troubled northern...
12/14/2011
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Attawapiskat chief, Duncan to discuss housing crisis
(Ontario) -- The chief of a remote Ontario reserve struggling with a housing crisis will meet with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan Thursday in Thunder Bay to...
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Attawapiskat: it’s time for a national children’s commissioner
(Canada) -- In Canada, we read about families and children in developing countries coping with disasters and their devastating impacts. Canadians respond with concern...
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Official calls for calm in Attawapiskat controversy
(Ontario) -- Both sides in the war of words over squalid living conditions in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat need to take a step back, the chairman of...
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OP/ED: Federal government's actions make us ashamed to be Canadians
(Canada) -- Over the last few weeks, we have followed the story of the situation in Attawapiskat and found ourselves increasingly disappointed by the reaction of our...
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OP/ED: Sending cash to reserves no solution for deep-rooted problems
(Ontario) -- If only a promised federal donation of another 22 modular homes for Attawapiskat was the answer to Canada's aboriginal housing crisis. It is not.
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Plane carrying Attawapiskat chief, band leaders makes emergency landing
(Ontario) -- A nine-seater plane reportedly carrying Attiwapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence and some band councillors had to make an emergency landing in...
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Third-party management ‘can wreak havoc’ on first nations
(Ontario) -- For every first nation under the thumb of a government-appointed third-party manager, there is a long and tortured back story. In Attawapiskat, Ont., it...
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Attawapiskat 'grandstanding' triggered tale of abuse
(Ontario) -- An aboriginal victim of sexual abuse who came forward to tell her own dark tale about the community of Attawapiskat said it was "grandstanding" on...
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Attawapiskat resident reveals history of abuse
(Ontario) -- While Attawapiskat has been thrust into the national spotlight because of a long-running housing problem, the attention is also exposing another major...
12/13/2011
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Aboriginal Affairs Minister agrees to meet with Attawapiskat chief
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan won't be going to the troubled community of Attawapiskat, but he will meet the band's chief in the more...
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De Beers decision to dump sewage into Attawapiskat played role in current housing crisis
(Ontario) -- While the housing crisis in Attawapiskat has the country’s full attention, it was an event on March 5, 2005, that pushed the community toward its...
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IN PICTURES: Life in Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Scenes from the community of Attawapiskat, where inherent problems have left residents in often dire circumstances.
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OP/ED: Depressing rerun for anti-native stereotypes
(Canada) -- Lazy. Incompetent. Dead weight. Basically, a burden on the taxpayers. Harsh descriptives for anyone to swallow, yet it’s par for the course for First...
12/12/2011
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Attawapiskat chief blasts minister in open letter
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence maintains she has not agreed to third-party management, despite a line in a statement issued by the Minister of Aboriginal...
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Attawapiskat chief claims minister 'misinformed'
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and the chief of a poverty-stricken Ontario reserve are now engaging in a public war of words. Duncan issued a...
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Attawapiskat chief denies accepting Government-appointed manager
(Ontario) -- The office of the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs issued a statement Sunday wrongfully declaring that the chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First...
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Attawapiskat chief threatens court action
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she will use the courts if necessary to resist the imposition of a third-party manager. Spence told CBC News that she...
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Attawapiskat chief welcomes extra homes, but not third-party manager
(Ontario) -- Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says her community appreciates the federal government’s decision to send more modular homes to the isolated Northern...
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Chief, ‘misinformed’ minister clash over Attawapiskat consultant
(Ontario) -- From being pulled out of press conferences to avoid questions to the awkward 18-second delay in trying to frame his answer to a query about when he knew...
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Duncan to meet with Attawapiskat chief in attempt to clear the air
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan says he's setting up a meeting with the chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation in an attempt to resolve...
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First nations lament living conditions in ‘many Attawapiskats’
(Ontario) -- With the spotlight on Attawapiskat, remote first nations across the country are now trying to turn the world’s eyes to miserable conditions on their...
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In Attawapiskat, deep-rooted problems won't disappear in an instant
(Ontario) -- There is no word for diamond in Cree. “They hear about the diamonds,” said Maryanne Wheesk, a middle-aged grandmother in the remote James Bay...
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Minister may meet Attawapiskat chief this week
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and the chief of a poverty-stricken Ontario reserve may sit down later this week after engaging in a public war of...
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More modular homes for Attawapiskat, but may not arrive for weeks
(Ontario) -- A he-said-she-said debate over what was, or wasn't said about the ongoing crisis on Attawapiskat continued Monday, as the minister overseeing the file...
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COLUMN: The greatest moral challenge in Canadian politics
(Canada) -- Why is it the terrible images seem never to change through the slideshow of Indian history? Click. Attawapiskat, 1,800 souls in misery in a place without...
12/11/2011
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Canada's First Nations: a scandal where the victims are blamed
(Ontario) -- In October, the Attawapiskat First Nation declared an emergency. And no one came to help. The community, situated in far northern Ontario and made up of 1,...
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Habitat for Humanity To Partner With First Nations on Housing, HGTV’s Mike Holmes Weighs In
(Ontario) -- Habitat for Humanity Canada is reaching out to the country’s aboriginals in a partnership with the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) aimed at helping...
12/10/2011
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Attawapiskat chief fires back at feds over mobile homes
(Ontario) -- The impoverished First Nation of Attawapiskat has shot back at the federal government's offer to evacuate the community and bring in 15 new modular...
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A Letter from Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Editorial Note: In early November 2011, the Attawapiskat Cree First Nation reserve declared a state of emergency due to a desperate housing situation, with...
12/9/2011
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Attawapiskat residents 'prepared to stay and wait'
(Ontario) -- The chief of the troubled Attawapiskat community says she believes residents don't want to take Ottawa's offer to evacuate the reserve, and called...
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Attawapiskat’s chief cool to offer to relocate residents
(Ontario) -- The chief of a troubled northern Ontario reserve battling a housing crisis and abhorrent living conditions said her community may turn down an evacuation...
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Without saying who pays, Ottawa sends modular homes to Attawapiskat
(Ottawa) -- The federal government has bought 15 modular homes for the remote first-nations community of Attawapiskat, but Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan is...
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Attawapiskat refuses to pay for third-party manager
(Ontario) -- The chief of a Northern Ontario reserve grappling with a housing shortage that has some families living in unheated shacks says her band council will not...
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Attawapiskat to get 15 new homes
(Ontario) -- The federal government will send 15 modular homes to the troubled Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario to help deal with the community's housing...
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Canada Billing Attawapiskat for Third-Party Audit That Community Doesn’t Want
(Ontario) -- Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (AAND) John Duncan on December 7 offered the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat evacuation,...
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Look to Alberta for Attawapiskat solutions, money manager says
(Alberta) -- A former financial officer in Fort McMurray, Alberta said governments should be spending more money in First Nations. Jim Pealow said Alberta invested...
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Other reserves also in dire straits, first nations remind Ottawa
(Ottawa) -- First nations leaders say the international exposure of the living conditions in Attawapiskat, and the government’s insistence that the impoverished...
12/8/2011
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Attawapiskat to pay $180,000 for third-party manager
(Ottawa) -- Attawapiskat will have to fork over $180,000 to pay for the third-party manager imposed on the community by Aboriginal Minister John Duncan, according to...
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Column: Attawapiskat and colonialism: Seeing the forest and the trees
(Ontario) -- If you can cut through the racism, ignorance, and half-baked opinions of pundits, politicians and sound-bite media, most folks will realize that...
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El-Qaddafi Son’s Alleged Canadian Smuggler Had Attawapiskat on Her Resume
(Ontario) -- The Canadian woman who was allegedly behind a plot to smuggle the son of Muammar el-Qaddafi, the deceased Libyan dictator, into Mexico is a consultant for a...
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Start building houses “fresh” in Attawapiskat: Mike Holmes
(Ontario) -- Mike Holmes knows all about building homes in remote communities. The host of Holmes on Homes is in a partnership with the Whitefish First Nation in Ontario...
12/7/2011
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Government offers to evacuate residents from troubled northern Ontario reserve
(Ottawa) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan has proposed two options to the troubled Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario — work with the federally...
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Government will evacuate Attawapiskat if necessary
(Ottawa) -- The federal government says it will evacuate some makeshift homes in the troubled northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat while housing and other supplies...
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Ottawa offers Attawapiskat evacuation plan
(Ottawa) -- The federal government is offering to relocate families living in tents and shacks in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat until adequate housing...
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Plan offered to help Canadian Indians
(Ontario) -- The Canadian government Wednesday offered to relocate Indian families living in shacks in northern Ontario until adequate housing can be provided.
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Attawapiskat requires answers not more handouts
(Toronto) -- For most of us, it’s hard to justify Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s chutzpah in banning a government-appointed manager from entering the...
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Focus on crisis, not money, urges Attawapiskat chief
(Ontario) -- The chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Ontario says people there are ``dying slowly,'' and that while the emphasis remains on finances, more...
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Native children's lives at risk
(Canada) -- Should Canadians be surprised with the tragic circumstances unfolding in the native community of Attawapiskat, west of James Bay? The answer is no.
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NDP says Attawapiskat should get army help
(Ontario) -- The federal NDP's interim leader says the military should be sent to Attawapiskat to help the housing crisis on the northern Ontario Cree community....
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NDP wants military aid for remote Ontario reserve
(Ontario) -- Interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper Wednesday to send immediate aid to Attawapiskat - the northern Ontario reserve which...
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Six a.m. pow wow in Ottawa renews hope for communities like Attawapiskat
(Ottawa) -- The singing and drumming began long before dawn Wednesday at the Ottawa Convention Centre, where chiefs from across Canada have gathered for the Assembly of...
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Government offers to provide more housing for Attawapiskat
(Ottawa) -- The Conservative government has agreed to provide more housing for Attawapiskat, but only if it is purchased by the federally appointed consultant who was...
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Government unrolls plan for Attawapiskat
(Ottawa) -- Federal funds will be used to purchase 15 winterized portables to help tackle the housing crisis at a northern Ontario reserve. Aboriginal and Northern...
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Ottawa to send 15 houses to Attawapiskat by end of January: Duncan
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said Wednesday the federal government would send 15 modular homes to Attawapiskat to relieve the northern Ontario...
12/6/2011
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Attawapiskat Chief Spence says department-appointed third-party manager booted from community
(Ottawa) -- Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says the outside consultant appointed by Aboriginal Affairs to take over the band’s finances has been kicked out of...
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AFN chief decries ‘punitive, unilateral action’ in Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the Conservative government’s imposition of a third-party manager at Attawapiskat lays bare...
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Atleo stands behind Attawapiskat chief
(Ontario) -- The declaration of a housing emergency in Attawapiskat is justified in order to bring national attention to the substandard living conditions of aboriginal...
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Atleo Talks One on One with Peter Mansbridge About Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo sat down with Canada’s premier newscaster, Peter Mansbridge, for a One on One about the...
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Attawapiskat chief says 'enough is enough'
(Canada) -- The chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation received a standing ovation at an Assembly of First Nations meeting in Ottawa Tuesday, telling her fellow...
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Attawapiskat leader threatens civil disobedience
(Ontario) -- A regional chief who represents Attawapiskat says that a number of his counterparts in other First Nations are prepared to engage in civil disobedience over...
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Attawapiskat: Haiti at 40 C Below
(Ontario) -- Even squalor has a web presence in a high-tech world. The Cree community of Attawapiskat has its own website (under construction). A page on Wikipedia tells...
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Canada's natives have been betrayed, leader says
(Ottawa) -- Canada is betraying its native peoples, who must deal with dreadful living conditions, poor health care and discrimination, the country's top aboriginal...
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Chiefs from across Canada stand with Attawapiskat
(Ottawa) -- The chief of the Northern Ontario reserve who declared a state of emergency because her people are living in plywood shacks with no heating or running water...
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Chiefs rally around Attawapiskat as call issued for oil pipeline blockade in three provinces
(Ottawa) -- Some Manitoba chiefs called for “action” against existing oil pipelines on a day of heated words at a special chiefs assembly in Ottawa that...
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COLUMN: Don't blame bands for reserve housing woes
(Canada) -- The federal government's response to the grim First Nations housing situation at Attawapiskat is troubling. It appears a knee-jerk racist response and...
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Many aboriginal reserves not viable
(Canada) -- Attawapiskat's misery could yield some benefit if it triggers a wholesale rethink on the economic viability of remote aboriginal reserves. But not much...
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National chief says he stands with Attawapiskat in housing crisis
(Ottawa) -- Struggling native bands need to use whatever means they have to ensure improvements in their quality of life, says the head of the Assembly of First Nations.
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OP/ED: Blame Ottawa for creating 'have,' 'have-not' reserves
(Ottawa) -- Re: "Manitoba chief calls salary list 'colonialist,' " The Journal, Nov. 25. It is easy to blame or ignore aboriginal people as sustained...
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OP/ED: Treat native Canadians with respect, equality
(Canada) -- When NDP MP Charlie Angus brought his video camera to the Attawapiskat Native Reserve in Northern Ontario, he probably didn't want to begin a national...
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People 'dying slowly' at Attawapiskat, chief says
(Ontario) -- The chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Ontario says people there are "dying slowly" and that the federal government's attention has...
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Stop building junk on reserves, says Mike Holmes
(Canada) -- For Canada's most famous — and outspoken — home renovator, the solution to the First Nations housing crisis is remarkably simple. "When...
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Teach First Nations to build their own homes
(Canada) -- Home renovator and television star, Mike Holmes, is weighing in the housing crisis in Attawapiskat. Holmes, who has a home renovation show on HGTV, has...
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UN asked to probe troubled reserve
(Ottawa) -- First Nations chiefs are ratcheting up the political conflict over Attawapiskat, asking the United Nations to step in to ensure Ottawa is doing its job for...
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Assembly of First Nations asks UN to check if Ottawa meets legal obligations
(Ottawa) -- Leaders of the troubled Attawapiskat community have asked the United Nations to intervene in their crisis, saying the move would force Prime Minister Stephen...
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OP/ED: Border Solutions at Akwesasne: We Can Control Our Own
(Canada) -- It has now been 30 months since the Canadian Border Security Agency abandoned its post on the Cornwall Island district of Akwesasne by manufacturing a so-...
12/5/2011
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Attawapiskat chief blasts Ottawa
(Ontario) -- The housing crisis in Attawapiskat has now turned into a full-blown political crisis. Attawapiskat band councillors turfed a federal appointee in charge of...
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Attawapiskat chief boots government official
(Ontario) -- The chief of an Ontario reserve plagued with a dire housing crisis has booted a government official tasked with controlling the finances of Attawapiskat...
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Attawapiskat chief heads to Ottawa
(Ontario) -- As the urgency to provide adequate housing for the people of Attawapiskat escalates this week, with temperatures expected to dip below -20C, Chief Theresa...
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Attawapiskat chief meets with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan
(Ontario) -- The chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation in Ontario is meeting with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan Monday afternoon. Officials in Duncan...
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Attawapiskat housing crisis: He said, Chief said on reserve
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence met Monday to discuss the housing crisis in the remote Ontario reserve, their...
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Attawapiskat kicks out federally appointed third-party manager
(Ontario) -- The third-party manager appointed to oversee the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation in Northern Ontario was ejected by the community on Monday.
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Attawapiskat’s chief denounces Ottawa’s ‘blame-the-victim’ response
(Ontario) -- Amid the political clamour over a housing shortage on a Northern Ontario reserve, the chief of Attawapiskat says her community's voice has been silenced.
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GlobalMedic helps out Attawapiskat reserve
(Ontario) -- Toronto-based GlobalMedic, a charity that usually flies to assist people in world disaster zones, went on an emergency run closer to home over the weekend.
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Hayes weighs in on Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- MP Bryan Hayes would like to assure his constituents that Aboriginal Affairs has been actively working with Attawapiskat First Nation and has been in...
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RICHARD WAGAMESE: The real shame of Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- After seeing the images of Attawapiskat First Nation beamed around the country in recent days, a viewer could hardly be blamed for not believing that they...
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Update on Attawapiskat: Statement From Minister Duncan
(Ontario) -- The Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, issued the following statement today:
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Shacks, slop pails on Wasagamack First Nation
(Manitoba) -- People on a remote Manitoba First Nation are living in shacks and using slop pails and outhouses as they cope with poverty, poor housing and a lack of...
12/3/2011
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Attawapiskat needs good government a lot more than political rhetoric — Mills Column
(Ontario) -- Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus deserves applause for attracting public attention and relief efforts to the deplorable housing crisis in Attawapiskat.
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Attawapiskat: A ‘homeland’ at the crossroads
(Ontario) -- The road to Attawapiskat is not paved. When there is a “road,” it is made of ice and runs atop a frozen James Bay. For the 2,000 Cree...
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Celebrity renovator urges trade skills in Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- For Canada's most famous — and outspoken — home renovator, the solution to the First Nations housing crisis is remarkably simple.
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Feds aware of Attawapiskat crisis for years
(Ottawa) -- The federal department responsible for First Nations has known about the worsening living conditions at Attawapiskat for years, says former Indian Affairs...
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First Nations require 'step-by-step' solutions: Harper
(Ottawa) -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday that the government's goal remains self-governance for First Nations, following a meeting with Canada's top...
12/2/2011
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Cramped and precarious: Attawapiskat woman living good life compared to most
(Ontario) -- Beverly Koostachin relies on prescription medication to still the voices in her head. Her mother, she says, is an alcoholic who imbibes hairspray when there...
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Eastmain Cree send $30K worth of goods to Attawapiskat
(Quebec) -- The First Nations community of Eastmain has sent 117 boxes full of dry goods and Christmas gifts to Attawapiskat. About 1,800 people live in the northern...
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Harper announces “historic” gathering with First Nations leaders amid outraged cries over Attawapiskat
(Ottawa) -- With cries of political outrage over the Attawapiskat crisis still echoing off Parliament Hill’s sandstone walls, Prime Minister Stephen Harper invited...
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Harper wants 'accountable' First Nations self-government
(Ontario) -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper says First Nations communities must develop "strong, accountable" systems of self-government in the long run, as...
12/1/2011
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5 things about Attawapiskat and 3rd party management
(Ontario) -- The federal government put Attawapiskat First Nations under third-party management Wednesday. Here's five things to know about the government's...
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Atleo: Time to stop “finger-pointing” on Attawapiskat and “smash the status quo”
(Ontario) -- Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo is meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Thursday afternoon as the political fallout over the...
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Attawapiskat crisis plan called short-sighted
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan came under fire again Thursday as Opposition MPs demanded to know how the government plans to resolve the housing...
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Attawapiskat crisis sparks political blame game
(Ontario) -- Political wrangling over a housing crisis in the remote First Nations community of Attawapiskat continued Thursday, with Opposition MPs demanding to know...
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Attawapiskat’s woes spark debate about what’s wrong on Canada’s reserves
(Ontario) -- The wretched state of housing in the Cree community of Attawapiskat has touched off a debate over what should be done to provide the people living in Canada...
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BLOG: Dealing with comments about Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- I still intend to get a series of posts out clarifying issues like First Nations housing, health-care, education and so on, but I have a confession. I haven...
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EDITORIAL: Clarity and transparency - as well as heating and water - needed in Attawapiskat
(Ontario) -- Images of children and toddlers with skin rashes lying on mouldy mattresses in decrepit shacks, and families of 10 crammed into wood-frame tents with wood-...
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