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A project organized by the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) is giving up-and-coming Aboriginal performing artists a chance to have their music heard.

Dig Your Roots-Aboriginal will showcase the talent of up to 100 Aboriginal artists from across the country, who will have their work featured on the Dig Your Roots Web site. Out of those 100 or so performers, 15 will be selected to appear on CD compilations and to take part in a series of regional concerts that will air live on the NCRA's member radio stations.

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Are you a budding Michael Moore? Is there a story you want to tell that would be suitable for film?

Perhaps you should consider signing up for a new program offered by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

It's called First Stories and it's a six-day intensive workshop that gives the emerging motion picture artist a well-rounded look at documentary film-making from concept to post-production.

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1. Does your party support the principles and objectives of the First Nations/Federal Crown Political Accord on the Recognition and Implementation of First Nations governments that was signed on May 31, 2005?

2. Does your party support the goals and commitments made by the First Ministers and national Aboriginal leaders at the November 2005 First Ministers Meeting?

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Buffy Sainte-Marie will perform live in concert at the Empress Theatre in Fort Macleod on Feb. 17. But get your tickets now, because Gerard Gibbs, executive director for the theatre, anticipates a sold out show.

"She is so widely appealing, so I think we will have a very wide, diverse turn out. We are really looking forward to Buffy's performance."

Sainte-Marie is not only a world renown First Nation musician, but also is known for her art work, which has been exhibited at various art galleries in Canada and abroad.

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Will they or won't they? That's the question the Assembly of First Nations' national chief has posed to Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper.

Phil Fontaine was responding to reports from two senior members of the Conservative Party that had them giving conflicting statements about the agreement reached in Kelowna at the First Ministers Meeting with Aboriginal leadership in November of last year.

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Only one person from Ontario has made the list of outstanding people from across the country who will receive National Aboriginal Achievement Awards in 2006.

Tony Belcourt, president of the Metis Nation of Ontario, will receive the award for public service in recognition of the many years he has dedicated to fighting for Metis rights and working to promote and preserve Metis culture.

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Cancer Care Ontario's Aboriginal Cancer Care Unit (ACCU) and the Ontario division of the Canadian Cancer Society are teaming up on a campaign aimed at educating Aboriginal people about cancer.

The campaign, Let's Take a Stand Against Cancer NOW!, had its launch in Sudbury on Dec. 12. The aim of the campaign is to provide information about cancer and to educate people on what they can do to decrease their cancer risk.

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A project being organized by the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) is giving up-and- coming Aboriginal performing artists a chance to have their music heard.

Dig Your Roots-Aboriginal will showcase the talents of up to 100 Aboriginal artists from across the country, who will have their work featured on the Dig Your Roots Web site. Out of those 100 or so performers, 15 will be selected to appear on CD compilations and to take part in a series of regional concerts that will air live on the NCRA's member radio stations.

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Celebrating business success was on the agenda on Nov. 29 as the Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund (NADF) handed out its annual Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Business Awards in Thunder Bay.

Among the winners of the 2005 awards were Bruce Brunette, who was named Business Man of the Year, and Laureen Wassaykeesic, named Business Woman of the Year.