Ryan McMahon travels across Ontario talking to Indigenous leaders, lawyers, historians, researchers and policy makers about the building of roads and the effects on Indigenous people and their land. Includes stories about isolation from people of Shoal Lake 40.
Duration: 44:07.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1, Winter, 2010, pp. 33-60
Description
Discusses a blockade by members of Grassy Narrows First Nation, which began in 2002 at Slant Lake in northwestern Ontario, to protest industrial clear-cutting.
Argues that First Nation communities must look beyond timber harvesting to develop strategies encompassing new and different approaches to forest-based development.
Annual Report of the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario ; 2016
Follow-Up Reports on Value-for-Money Audits, Annual Report 2016, Volume 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Auditor General of Ontario
Description
Chapter 3 section 3.02 of the Follow-Up Reports on Value-for-Money Audits, Annual Report 2016, Volume 2. Committee recommendations and detailed status of actions.
Report commissioned to assess the social, political, economic and cultural ramifications of a new set of laws governing membership in the Anishinabek Nation of Ontario.
Related material: Excerpts.
Improving End-of-Life Care in First Nations Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sevan Nadin
Mary Lou Kelley
Holly Prince
Maxine Crow
Description
Discusses the palliative care program developed by the community through the Improving End-of-Life Care in First Nations research project. Evaluation looks at implementation (resources, essential activities, participants, and services), accountability/success indicators, and value of the program. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected via Weekly Client Tracking Forms, questionnaires, focus group/interviews, and program documents.
Brief case study of consulting company that works exclusively with First Nations communities to build reilience in communities through Ontario Works employment programming.
Documentary about children being forced to leave their reserves in order to attend high school. Follows a student from Kingfisher Lake First Nation to Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Between 2000 and 2011 seven students from remote First Nations have been found dead in Thunder Bay.
Duration: 33:11.
Provides information on services and benefits that are covered or can be accessed through Canada's Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) when the goods and services are not covered by provincial health or third party health plans.
Revision of 2013 edition.
Book review of: Indigenous Women, Work, and History, 1940-1980 by Mary Jane Logan McCallum.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 162.
Non-Insured Health Benefits Ontario Region: Prescription Drug Trends
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Health Canada
Description
Statistics for opiate use and the medications used in treatment of diabetes, heart conditions, mental health conditions, inhalers for respiratory conditions, smoking cessation products, and reproductive and sexual health. Covers the years 2000 to 2009.
Internal Evaluation: the Urban Aboriginal Education Pilot Project Simcoe County District School Board
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Haig-Brown Research & Consulting
Description
"Internal Evaluation: The Urban Aboriginal Education Pilot Project Simcoe County District School Board."
Addresses three central questions: How true to the guiding principles has this project been? How successful was the project team in implementing the aspects laid out in the original plan? and What is the model that results from assessment and analysis of this pilot project?
Project examined the cost of the Revised Northern Food Basket in five northern Ontario communities and looked at food prices in relation to overall cost of living.
Overview to health crisis and Nishnawbe Aski Nation's plan to implement recommendations made by the Auditor General's report Access to Health Services for Remote First Nations Communities.
Statistical table shows data for urban and rural areas in Canada as a whole, as well as provinces and territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table shows data for urban and rural areas in Canada as a whole, as well as provinces and territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table broken down by owned, rented and band housing in rural and urban areas for Canada as a whole, as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table broken down into not in labour force, unemployed, employed full-time, and employed part-time in Canada as a whole as well as provinces and territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table shows incomes and source of incomes for urban and rural areas in Canada as a whole, as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table shows data for single-detached, apartments and other in rural and urban areas in Canada as a whole as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table covers time periods: prior to 1981, 1981-1996, 1996-2006, and 2006-2011. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table broken down into above and below standards, below suitability and adequacy, and below both in urban and rural areas for Canada as a whole, as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Statistical table broken down into living in/access to adequate and suitable, in housing need, below suitability, below adequacy, or both in urban and rural areas for Canada as a whole, as well as provinces/territories. Includes tab with tables' definitions and notes.
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
Canadian Journal of Urban Research, vol. 25, no. 1, Ottawa Studies Special Issue, 2016, pp. 8-21
Description
Overview of Algonquin land claims in Ontario and case studies of Indigenous activism including Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike on Victoria Island and the Idle No More movement.