APTN TO BROADCAST OLYMPICS
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) will make a bit of history next year.
APTN will become the first Aboriginal network in the world to broadcast live coverage of the Olympic Games. APTN will provide 10 hours of daily coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. The coverage will be in English, French and Aboriginal languages.
Daily broadcasts will include two hours of prime time coverage in various languages. There will also be four hours of English and four hours of French broadcasting each day.

Do you know someone who has received the Tom Longboat Award? Researchers are looking for many Tom Longboat Award recipients (see list at the end of this story) to conduct oral interviews about their experiences in Canadian sport. If you know anyone on the list please contact the recipient and ask him/her to pass their contact information on to the researchers (contact information is also at the end of this story).

Do you know someone who has received the Tom Longboat Award? Researchers are looking for many Tom Longboat Award recipients (see list at the end of this story) to conduct oral interviews about their experiences in Canadian sport. If you know anyone on the list please contact the recipient and ask him/her to pass their contact information on to the researchers (contact information is also at the end of this story).

Twenty youth in the Ottawa-Carleton area have a chance to be part of a history-making event in 2010, thanks to the efforts of a young First Nations role model. Beverley Sunday, a health promotion co-ordinator at the Odawa Native Friendship Centre, is spearheading the campaign to get young people from the Capital Region involved in the Olympic torch relay to Vancouver.

With the help and enthusiasm of community volunteers, a struggling radio station serving the regions of the Six Nations and the Mississauga First Nations may enjoy a new lease on life. Fans and supporters of CKRZ (100.3 FM), known as the "Voice of the Grand," have rallied to preserve the unique organization.

The Stoney Nakoda Nation is waiting with trepidation for a ruling from the Energy Resources Conservation Board that could approve the construction of a proposed Petro Canada pipeline in closer-than-comfortable proximity to the Eden Valley reserve.

A $3.5 million Aboriginal Pavilion will be built in Vancouver in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The project was announced at a press conference in early February by leaders from the Four Hosts First Nations (FHFN) -Lil'wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh-and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).

The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) will be using recently announced funding from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada to tackle the issue of seniors abuse in the Aboriginal community, and get a better grasp on the kinds and amount of abuse Aboriginal seniors are continuing to face.
Erin Wolski expects to hear stories about systemic abuse and financial abuse and she expects Aboriginal seniors to talk about mental and physical abuse as well.

Basketball may be the hook that pulls youngsters into Friendship House in Prince Rupert, but it's only one of the many tools that long-standing community worker George Sampson and his staff use to help shape the young charges.

The Chinese New Year's Day parade in Vancouver, B.C., happened to be on Jan. 27, 2009, and was a very cold and wet event this year. Bill Chu who organized an assembly of First Nations in the Main Street parade had to house his guests, the Elders from Sto:lo, Stat'myx, Salish, and Nisga'a Nations, out of the elements during the wait for the march of the dragons. Chu, who has organized similar multi-cultural events over the past few years in Vancouver, said that doesn't normally happen.