Wed 22 February, 2012
08:25 Government of Canada - Mohawk Council Sign Memorandum of Understanding (iPortal News)

The Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, and Michael Ahrihron Delisle, Jr., Grand Chief of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, announced today the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Kahnawake?Canada Relationship. The MOU establishes better frameworks for land management issues and membership questions in the First Nation.

Tue 21 February, 2012
09:17 Hold the salt: coastal drinking water more vulnerable to water use than climate change (U of S News Releases)
Human activity is likely a greater threat to coastal groundwater used for drinking water supplies than rising sea levels from climate change, according to a study conducted by geoscientists from the University of Saskatchewan and McGill University in Montreal.
08:31 Assembly of First Nations National Justice Forum (iPortal News)

The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is hosting the National Justice Forum, which is being held February 21st-23rd, 2012 at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of the goals of the Forum are to discuss trends in corrections with the Correctional Service of Canada and to honour the families of murdered and missing First Nations women.