Fort Frances

Project to identify protective factors which led women to leave abusive relationships and stay away permanently. Research involved women from five Ontario cities: Fort Frances, Hamilton, Ottawa, Timmins and Thunder Bay.

Argues that learning and speaking Ojibwemowin language is of vital importance to an individual's personal, spiritual, and political identity and development of an Ojibwe worldview. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.

Research project aims to increase instances of positive, culturally-responsive outcomes in cases of sexual victimization.

File contains a presentation by Garnet Cumigant detailing the history of the city of Kenora, Ontario.

File contains a presentation by Frank Bruyere relating to education and the history of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. He offers numerous recommendations, including a review done by Aboriginal educators of all educational materials in publicly funded schools used to teach Aboriginal history and eliminating all materials deemed to be inaccurate or offensive to Aboriginal people; and making funds available for Aboriginal friendship centres to develop materials for use in working with local industries, business and institutions in the areas of race relations and employment equity.

Supportive housing is related to accessing medical care, education and other vital services. Summary of study which involved literature review, survey of users in four Ontario communities, and case studies of 12 providers.

Study investigated why this type of accommodation was needed, challenges faced, whether needs were being met, and what improvements were desirable. Includes survey of users and twelve cases studies conducted in northwestern Ontario. Includes research highlight and full report.