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MNO citizens and staff at the MNO booth during the Summer Solstice National Aboriginal Arts Festival in Ottawa on June 17-19. (Right to left) Jo-Ann Wass, PCMNO Councillor for Region 6, Melissa Pigeau with the MNO Healing and Wellness Branch, Benny Michaud with the MNO Education and Training Branch, Senator Reta Gordon, Senator Lois McCallum

NOTICE TO CITIZENS To: MNO Citizens From: France Picotte, MNO Chair Date: June 28, 2011 Subject: Resolutions for the 2011 MNO AGA The 2010 MNO Annual General Assembly (“AGA”) passed a unanimous resolution (AGA-RES10-02) that all future resolutions brought to MNO AGAs that propose to change the MNO’s governance structures, policies or bylaws must be

Seneca College President David Agnew presents MNO President Gary Lipinski with a hand-made drum painted by Aboriginal artist Jay Bell Redbird during ceremonies at Seneca College on Friday. On Friday, April 8, the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) announced that it has pledged $20,000 to provide financial assistance to Seneca College’s Métis students. The new

Ontario’s “Willing Seller-Willing Buyer” Program and the Métis The struggle of Métis people for commercial fishing rights is a story very close to the heart of Trish O’Connor, a Métis youth currently attending Lakehead University. Her parents, Ron and Mary O’Connor, were commercial fishers on Lake of the Woods whose livelihood was threatened by the

From left to right: Joëlle Lavoie; Rick Meilleur, Vice-President, Sudbury Métis Council; Mallory Brazeau; Larry Prevost, Secretary-Treasurer, Sudbury Métis Council; Pam Jones, Employment and training Officer, Métis Nation of Ontario; Eric Dupuis, Coordinator – Aboriginal Projects, Collège Boréal; Roger Giroux, President, Sudbury Métis Council; Natalie Venne; Nancy Bouchard; Marc Nellis, Professor, Natural Resources Sector, Collège

By Zoey Duncan of Fort Frances On-line The Newly elected Sunset Country Interim Métis Councill (left to right): Randy Carmody, Jim McMahon, Valorie Pelepetz, John George, Roz Calder Mona-Rose Morrisseau, Eric Fagerdahl, Wanda Botsford, Clint Calder and Theresa Stenlund (Regional Councillor) Missing Michele Tymkin and Garrick Isensee. On May 4, the Sunset Country Métis elected

Métis youth participating in the Kenora Métis Council’s Michif program: (left to right) Katelyne Stenlund (daughter of Region One Councilor; Theresa Stenlund), Kira Boucha, Darcie Boucha; Hailey Fortier (granddaughter of Kenora Metis Council President Joel Henley); Mathew Camire (in the back corner); Kylie Camire; Ashton Bell (AJ) (with the talking stick); Alana Boucha (on the

By Cam Burgess, PCMNO Councillor for Region Two Ken Simard being presented with the City of Thunder BayExceptional Achievement Award I am pleased to report that Mr. Ken Simard, Captain of the Hunt for Region 2, has received the City of Thunder Bay EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for his commitment and dedication to the community. Ken

Submitted by BSTAIP Interns BSTAIP Interns enjoy a Métis pot luck as part of the Celebration recognizing the completion of the first year of the BSTAIP program. The first year interns of the Building Systems Technical Advisor Internship Program (BSTAIP) pilot project reached another milestone recently with the completion of the first year of the

By Dale Xilon, Aboriginal Healthy Babies Healthy Children Coordinator AHBHC Coordinator Dale Xilon with group of primary students discussing how to plan to escape during a fire After careful planning by dedicated volunteers, the spark of safety ignited by one Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) citizen was fanned into a flaming success. George Goodchild, from