Podcasts about Fort William First Nation

In this feature segment of asPERusual, guest listener and patient partner Kathy Smith offers a short recap and her key takeaways from last week's episode of asPERusual focused on patient engagement within the Can-SOLVE CKD Network -- a Canada-wide network of patients, scientists, and health care professionals devoted to creating innovative kidney care solutions. Tune in to this short (~10 minute) episode, regardless of whether you want to compare reflections or get the Coles notes of the full Can-SOLVE CKD Network episode.Episode Transcript:Anna:Hi everyone! Welcome to onePERspective - a bi-weekly segment in which patient partner Kathy Smith shares a synopsis and key reflections from the previous episode of asPERusual -- a podcast for practical patient engagement. My name is Anna Chudyk and I am asPERusual's host. In today's episode, Kathy will be commenting on S3E2 of asPERusual. In that episode, I sat down with Melanie Talson and Cathy Woods to learn all about patient engagement within the Can-SOLVE CKD Network, which is a Canada-wide network of patients, scientists, and health care professionals devoted to creating innovative kidney care solutions. Alright Kathy, lets turn it over to you and your onePERspective. Kathy Smith:Thank you, Anna and hello, everyone. I am speaking to you from the centre of Canada along the shores of Lake Superior, or Gitchigumi, the largest, deepest, coldest and cleanest freshwater lake in the world. I wish to acknowledge that my City of Thunder Bay is situated on the traditional land of the Anishinaabe peoples, including the Ojibwa of Fort William First Nation, signatories to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. I thank our ancestral land keepers for centuries of sustainable stewardship of this beautiful area and for kindly sharing the bounties of this rich land with everyone. I also wish to express my appreciation for the significant contribution of the Metis nation. I am sorry for the mistakes made and mistreatment of Indigenous peoples by colonists in the past and I am committed to working together for truth and reconciliation. Miigwetch.If ever there was an award for a solid and sustainable engagement strategy, today's Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Px engagement platform would certainly be a strong contender. I am most impressed with how they have integrated the Indigenous voice and with their capacity-building training modules, including bi-directional Capacity Bridging.Melanie Talson & Cathy Woods from Can-SOLVE CKD: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease describe their network as a national partnership of lived experience patients; learned experience researchers; laboured experience health care workers and clinicians; and leaders – the managers and policy makers. The four “Ls” work together to transform treatment and care and improve the outcome for those living with debilitating chronic kidney disease.Can-SOLVE's tagline is “the right treatment for the right person at the right time and place.” No small task when you consider CKD affects a disproportionate number of Indigenous people many of whom live in remote, even fly-in, communities. That is why I am so impressed to see that this group has a strategy for addressing that barrier to care. Can-SOLVE has an Indigenous-led partner group, IPERC -Indigenous Peoples Engagement and Research Council. IPERC's focus is on Indigenous kidney care challenges unique to this harder to reach, often underserved, group. Cathy, of the Bear Clan, is a member of Naicatchewenin First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, is the patient partner and a lead researcher of the Kidney Check Research Project which seeks to screen, triage and treat Indigenous people living in rural and remote communities in the three western provinces and British Columbia. Patient partners within both groups prioritize and co-lead research projects like this one, ensuring meaningful and relevant engagement at every stage. Furthermore, there is a Patient Governance Council – a leadership team made up of representatives of both interest groups who decide on plans and policies that affect the entire CKD community.Our speakers have done a great job describing each of the 6 Rs upon which they built their engagement platform: Respect, Responsibility, Reciprocity, Relevance, Relationships and Realness. Realness is a term I had not heard of in engagement platforms before. But I do understand and appreciate its inclusion. We need to fit our hats to the task as I like to call it. Our real life has given each of us many hats, but which shall we wear to best meet the asks of the task? Patients and providers work best when they find common ground, common interests and common language with lived experience input “as is”. Bring your real, authentic self to the table. Respect for individual differences and perspectives sees real-world impacts.Equally impactful is how patient partners like Cathy describes her involvement in CANSOLVE as healing, empowering, and deeply purposeful – creating a space for ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things. As the famous anthropologist, Margaret Mead, phrased it; never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.”Finally, I'd like to acknowledge CANSOLVE's Bridging Capacity. Building capacity is an integral component of patient engagement strategies. Training modules are co-designed to buildup the knowledge and provide the necessary tools for patients to engage in a research project. These helps are unidirectional in scope. So how does Bridging Capacity differ from Building Capacity? Bridging Capacity is bi-directional. Patients and providers both learn from each other. I cant think of a better tool for bridging the power differential and creating strong work relationships!All in all, CANSOLVE and IPERC have really empowered patients to enhance research relevance to better the outcome for all with chronic kidney disease.PERsonally SpeakingMy three take-aways:Could this Indigenous Partnership (IPERC) model be used to incorporate the voice of many other underserved populations – the remote; the homeless; the new Canadians? These groups are surely concerned about their health, but they do not want to, or cannot, come to our Table. So, meet them where they are at with separate interest groups run by their own leaders and their own peers. Then the leaders of the various interest groups could come together to form an overarching Senior Team. This makes for a much more inclusive and diverse Patient Engagement Platform!Capacity Bridging This was a term I had not heard of before but I very much like it for the added emphasis it brings to an engagement platform. This bridging is a bi-directional sharing of knowledge between the lived experience experts and the learned experience experts. It stresses the importance of respecting that all members of the team bring unique experiences and skill sets. This concept guides mentorship, training, and peer review practices across the network. Patient partners are highly valued for their different hats they bring to a task on the TEAM: Together Everyone Accomplishes More. Together is better!Relationship Building is at the heart and soul of every Patient Engagement Platform. It takes a patience of time and a whole lot of money. It must be accounted for in research budgets and run by a paid, highly trained and skilled multi-tasker manager. Anything less jeopardizes the success of the engagement platform and perhaps the relevance and value of the research itself.At this time, I would like to thank everyone for the privilege and the opportunity of speaking to you on these podcasts. In particular, I want to do a huge shout out to my heroine, Anna, for including me and asking me to do these podcasts. As Anna is moving forward with the pediatric and youth groups, I want a fresh voice to help her with these podcasts. But in any case, I wish Anna all the best as she goes forward with this labor of love. I can't tell you how much time and effort Anna has shown and the passion that she has dedicated to helping all patients engage meaningfully and relevantly with academic partners in research. Thank you. And happy trails, Anna. Anna:Thanks Kathy for this, and all of the other onePERspective's to date. As you know, your encouraging emails summarizing all you learned from the release of this podcast's initial episodes were the impetus for creating the onePERspective segment. I've really enjoyed hearing your reflections and collaborating with you on the creation of these episodes. Even with all your engagement related jet setting, I could also count on you to come through on your episode… and somehow find the time for it. Big hugs to you and I'm glad we have research we're collaborating on together so it's not actually a good bye. Moving forward this season, I'm going to continue with onePERspective but it's taking a different twist. A big reason why I have chosen to focus the remainder of season 3's episodes on engaging children, youth, and families is for my own learning as I expand my research program to focus on these populations. I am currently moving in this direction through a pharmacogenetics study I am collaborating on with my colleague Abdullah Maruf, as well as work I am doing with colleagues to redesign pediatric-to-adult transition care services for youth and families living with congenital heart disease. Sasha Kullman is a talented PhD trainee working under my supervision on the congenital heart disease project. Given her passion and penchant for patient engagement and knowledge translation, I thought that it would be a great opportunity for her to take over onePERspective this season, and offer a trainee perspective on her take-aways from the episodes. She's very brilliant and I can't wait to hear her episode takeaways as her insights always make me think.In the next full episode of asPERusual, I kick off the rest of this season's focus on how to meaningfully engage children, youth, and families in health research. Guests Brianna Hunt, Onalee Garcia-Alecio, and Michelle Roy, will share their experience with engaging in the iCARE study—Canada's largest cohort of youth with type 2 diabetes. We'll also discuss what makes engagement meaningful over time, the value of lived experience, and practical tips for involving youth and families in ways that are inclusive, trauma-informed, and fun. The episode is going to drop on April 28th so be sure to check it out by visiting our website asperusual.substack.com or wherever it is that you download your other podcast episodes from. If you do visit the website, be sure to check out the interactive transcript from this, and other episodes, as well as to subscribe to the podcast's newsletter! As always, you can reach me by emailing anna.asperusual@gmail.com or by adding me to LinkedIn by searching Anna M. Chudyk – CHUDYK.Until next time, thanks again for tuning in and let's keep working together to make patient engagement the standard, or asPERusual. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit asperusual.substack.com

In this feature segment of asPERusual, guest listener and patient partner Kathy Smith offers a short recap and her key takeaways from last week's episode of asPERusual focused on Building capacity with the SPOR IMAGINE Network. Tune in to this short (~10 minute) episode, regardless of whether you want to compare reflections or get the Coles notes of the full SPOR IMAGINE Network episode.Episode Transcript:Anna:Hi everyone! Welcome to Season 3's first episode of onePERspective. As a reminder, this is a tri-weekly segment in which patient partner Kathy Smith shares a synopsis and key reflections from the previous week's episode of asPERusual -- a podcast for practical patient engagement. My name is Anna Chudyk and I am asPERusual's host. Before I turn things over to Kathy to provide a recap of Season 3 Episode 1, I want to do a huge shout out to her. Kathy, you faced huge tech related barriers that would have made most other people peace out on making this episode a reality. But you kept trying all week and persevering and here we finally are. Something you kept saying was, I don't want to let you down. But the thing is, I don't think you could ever let me down if you tried. Our long-standing bond grew out of and transcends or working relationship, and that's what patient engagement is all about. So thank you so much, Kathy, for loving this labor of love of a podcast as much as I do. And now let me turn it over to you for your onePERspective.Kathy Smith:Thank you Anna and hello everyone. First off, I would like to gratefully acknowledge the ancestral keepers of the beautiful and bountiful land upon which my city of Thunder Bay was built about a quarter of a century ago. We are at the epicenter of Canada, at the head of the greatest, deepest and cleanest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior, the mighty Gitche Gumee. This area is the traditional territory and homeland of the Anishinaabe People, which includes the Ojibwa/Chippewa of Fort William First Nation, signatories to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. My father's family migrated from Sweden to Turtle Island (Canada) in the late 1800s. They all settled in Minnesota, but only my grandfather preferred to live and work in Canada as a lumberjack. My mother's family also first migrated to America way back in the early 1700s. A family joke is that they told the Mayflower where to land. They moved first up to New Brunswick, as United Empire Loyalists, with some settling here to work in the forest building and serving the railway. Both families chose to live and thrive here in pristine northwestern Ontario, and they gratefully spoke often of the huge debt we owed to its original land keepers. Whether as a child in the family car on a Sunday drive to nowhere, or as a mom camping everywhere with my own four children, or now just meandering with my hubby along the majestic woodland trails, I am in awe of the breathtaking, balance, and restoring beauty of our natural surroundings. I respect the ancestral stewards for their profound spiritual connection to Mother Earth and all the living things that guided them to practice reverence, humility and reciprocity with her gifts of pure air, clean water, mineral rich soil, and abundant flora and fauna. I am very grateful also for the significant contributions made by the Metis Peoples, both past and present. Miigwech!Thank you to our Building Capacity with SPOR IMAGINE guests Aida Fernandes (executive director), along with Dr. Deborah Marshall and Sandra Zelinsky, co-leads of the Patient Engagement Subcommittee. You all wear different hats with your lived and work experience backgrounds, but you are all laser focused on partnering to better manage inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Your IMAGINE network is shedding some much needed light on these puzzling and troubling chronic disorders. I have seen a close friend's partner struggle and stumble with Crohn's disease, one of the inflammatory bowel diseases. Needing to be hyper vigilant with what he eats and ever mindful of maintaining a work life balance is difficult. And he pretty much had to learn by trial and error. He recently passed away from pancreatic cancer, but I know he would be extremely delighted to see that the Mind And Gut Interactions Cohort (MAGIC) Study focuses on more proactive and preventative strategies than on reactive treatment regimes. WOWZA! Almost 8000 subjects were recruited into the pan-Canadian MAGIC study by the IMAGINE network. Participants were retained in the study in high numbers even though they had to submit quarterly blood, stool, and urine samples. How did IMAGINE accomplish this incredible feat? With the aid of a very strong, very engaged, very well trained and supported patient partner group. 40 patient peer-to-peer mentors conducted face-to-face and/or online virtual contacts with the participants in the study to encourage and support them. The patients engaged as partners in the research had flexibility in how and when they could contribute to the study. The IMAGINE network met patient partners where they were at and what they were comfortable with contributing. Anna compared this to Roger Stoddard's choosing patient engagement tasks from a menu analogy, because appetites are all different when it comes to the amount of engagement one can or will want to do. Patient engagement was kept strong by relying on this flexibility, plus good support, plus capacity building and first and foremost, once again, respectful relationship building. The unique but equally valuable voices and perspectives of the 4 Ls that Linxi Mytkolli told us about in asPERusual's Diabetes Action Canada podcast delivers the lived, the lovers, the learners (so the academic leads) and the laborers (all the clinicians) blended together to make this one strong, patient centric study. Patients and providers also had access to tools necessary to support their preferred level and type of engagement. Anna has posted a really good list of these resources recommended by today's guests. In particular, they highlighted the free online patient and community engagement research (PaCER) program, a one year certificated course from the University of Calgary. It teaches patient research partners how to create, conduct, and even lead a research project. In fact, that's the requirement for the certificate. Another way patient engagement was supported reached beyond taking part in the research study process. IMAGINE empowered patients to share their lived experience stories. Having just completed this task myself, I sure wish I had access to that training with the help from patient mentors like Sandra. Storytelling is harder than it looks. All in all, this is a very strong study with a very strong network of networks and a very strong method of patient engagement. I wish the team much success. Miigwech. PERsonally SpeakingMy three big takeaways will sound pretty familiar. The secret sauce to any successful patient engagement in research platform is to overcommunicate at the start. Make friends. Take all the time at the start to develop the bidirectional relationships needed to build a strong team of friends. Teamwork makes the dream work. Know the end game goal. List the tasks needed to get there, and then collaborate as a team to “match the hat to the task.” Impressed IMAGINE seems to have no power differential barrier at play. Regular feedback and ongoing evaluation can help maintain a productive and respectful partnership. If we focus research funding on lived experience patient priorities like MAGIC's mind-gut biome connection study, it not only enriches the research process, but also ensures that the outcomes are more relevant and beneficial to those who need them the most. Patients are the alpha and the omega of health care. Thank you to SPOR Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research for all your resource allocation for studies that bridge the gap between science and experience. Working together, maybe we will get more proactive strategies to better self-manage many chronic diseases. I'm very optimistic MAGIC will make some magic happen for patients with IBD and IBS.Anna:Thanks so much Kathy for sharing your onePERspective. I think this is my favorite one yet. Something that really also stood out for me about IMAGINE was the pivotal role that patient research partners play in shaping research within the network and throughout the research cycle. The MAGIC study is such an impressive undertaking, having enrolled almost 8000 patients in a Pan-Canadian longitudinal venture. To see meaningful and active engagement interwoven into it is beyond heartening and definitely something we can all stand to learn from. If you haven't checked the original episode out, it is Season 3 Episode 1 of asPERusual and can be accessed through visiting our website asperusual.substack.com or wherever it is that you download your other podcast episodes from. If you do visit the website, be sure to check out the interactive transcript from this, and other episodes, as well as to subscribe to the podcast's newsletter! As always, you can reach me by emailing anna.asperusual@gmail.com or by adding me to LinkedIn by searching Anna M. Chudyk – CHUDYK.In two weeks I'll be releasing Season 3 Episode 2 of asPERusual, where I sit down with Melanie Talson and Cathy Woods from the Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD) network. Be sure to tune in if you want to learn about their systemic approach to patient engagement, including ways in which the six R's ( Respect, Responsibility, Reciprocity, Relevance, Relationships, and being Real) permeate all aspects of the network's work, and the role of the network's Indigenous Peoples' Engagement and Research Council (IPERC) in shaping engagement and care for Indigenous Peoples and communities across Canada.Until next time, thanks again for tuning in and let's keep working together to make patient engagement the standard, or asPERusual. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit asperusual.substack.com

In this insightful episode, host Scott Stirrett chats with Patrice Mousseau, the visionary Founder and CEO of Satya Organic and a member of Fort William First Nation. A former broadcast journalist, Patrice turned her investigative skills towards finding a steroid-free solution for her daughter's eczema. This quest led her to traditional medicine, rigorous medical research, and eventually to crafting a botanically-based balm using a $15 crockpot she bought off Facebook. Patrice shares the remarkable journey of creating a sustainable skincare solution that doesn't buy into the allure of becoming a "unicorn" business. Patrice opts for meaningful impact over explosive growth, and nurtures a business that is deeply aligned with personal values and community well-being. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in how a commitment to sustainability and community can coexist with ambitious business goals.

Calls for the return of icon Buffy Sainte-Marie's JUNO award continue to ring out - Cree opera musician Rhonda Head shares her thoughts. A non-Indigenous member of Fort William First Nation discusses customary adoptions and what it means for individuals and communities. We'll also hear from a residential school survivor and her trip to Rome this Fall who failed to meet the pope to discuss calls to end abuse.

On this episode of Face to Face: Georjann Morriseau Morriseau is a former chief of Fort William First Nation in northern Ontario and a member of the Thunder Bay police services board. She has called her time on the board disheartening and appalling.

On this episode of Face to Face: Georjann Morriseau Morriseau is a former chief of Fort William First Nation in northern Ontario and a member of the Thunder Bay police services board. She has called her time on the board disheartening and appalling.

Patrice Mousseau is the Founder and CEO of Satya Organic Skin Care. She is a member of Fort William First Nation and a former journalist, and her journey to becoming a conscious entrepreneur stemmed from the development of her own homemade treatment for her young daughter's eczema. This treatment was based on traditional medicine and scientific innovation. With a successful natural formula in hand without the use of steroids, Patrice went on to launch Satya.The word Satya means “higher truth” in Sanskrit. The brand is certified carbon neutral with the Coastal First Nations' Great Bear Rainforest initiative. As well, Patrice ensures she provides her staff of women, all single moms like her, a living wage and great working conditions. Listen to this episode to hear all about what brought her here, and how her passion translates to her company.For 10% off your order of Satya organic skincare products, head to satya.ca and use code The Brand is Female at checkout.This season of The Brand is Female is brought to you by TD Bank - Women Entrepreneurs. TD is proud to support women entrepreneurs and help them achieve success and growth through its program of educational workshops, financing and mentorship opportunities! Find out how you can benefit from their support!————Visit: TBIF: thebrandisfemale.com //TD Women Entrepreneurs: td.com/ca/en/business-banking/small-business/women-in-business //Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/thebrandisfemale

This week we spend time with Yolanda Bonnell, a Queer/ 2 Spirit Anishinaabe and South Asian performer and playwright from Fort William First Nation. With me are Sage and Shea from ESCHS as co-hosts, we learn about healing through the arts, storytelling and the best way to brush our teeth.  Music Credits "Seven"  Written by William Prince © 2020 William Prince Music Inc. (SOCAN) / KMR Music Royalties II SCSp (ASCAP), Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), and Scott Nolan © Scott Nolan (SOCAN)

Meet Toronto-based theatre artist and writer, Yolanda Bonnell Yolanda is a Queer, 2 Spirit, Ojibwe/South Asian performer, playwright and poet from Fort William First Nation in Thunder Bay, ON. Yolanda has performed at Stratford, the National Arts Centre, and theaters across the country. Her solo show bug premiered at the Luminato Festival in 2018 and has toured across the country, and she’s currently developing White Girls in Moccasins, in residency at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. We talked about what it’s like to create during these pandemic times, Yolanda’s relationship to decolonizing theatre, and her upcoming projects.  This week’s Meriendas de Pandemia or Pandemic Snacks are two Mexican delights: pastel de tres leches for Monica and tepache for Camila! Try them yourselves if you’re feeling adventurous.  Show notes: Yolanda participated in the 2019 Gros Morne Playwright’s Residency  Cole Alvis, part of the manidoons collective and director of bug, a play that Yolanda wrote which ran at Theatre Passe Murailles this February  Monique Mojica, Muriel Miguel, Dr. Lindsay Lachance, Kim Senklip-Harvery are indigenous women and theatre artists who are engaged in decolonizing theatre practice  Yolanda played Theresa in Factory’s 2016 production of Crackwalker by Judith Thompson  Monthly Amateur Strip night at the Round The Last Vampire book series by Christopher Pike ¡Esta semana Mónica y Camila conversaron con la artista y escritora teatral basada en Toronto, Yolanda Bonnell! Yolanda es una artista Queer, 2 Spirit, Artista Ojibwe / del Sur de Asia, dramaturga y poeta de Fort William First Nation en Thunder Bay, Ontario. Yolanda ha actuado en Stratford, el Centro Nacional de las Artes de Canadá y en teatros de todo el país. Su solo show “Bug” se estrenó en el Festival Luminato en el 2018 y ha recorrido todo el país, actualmente está desarrollando “White Girls in Moccasins”, en residencia con Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Hablamos sobre lo que es crear durante estos tiempos de pandemia, la relación de Yolanda con la descolonización del teatro y sus próximos proyectos. Esta semana nuestra Merienda de Pandemia son dos delicias Mexicanas: pastel de tres leches para Mónica y tepache para Camila! Sigua las recetas si quiere probar un pedacito de México.  Bibliografía: En el 2019 Yolanda participó en Gros Morne Playwright’s Residency, una residencia de dramaturgos  Cole Alvis, parte del colectivo manidoons y director de bug, la obra que escribió Yolanda presentada en el Theatre Passe Murailles en Febrero de este año Monique Mojica, Muriel Miguel, Dr. Lindsay Lachance, Kim Senklip-Harvery mujeres indígenas y artistas de teatro que se dedican a descolonizar la práctica teatral Yolanda interpretó a Theresa Crackwalker by Judith Thompson, una obra producida en Factory Theatre en el 2016 Noche Mensual de Strip Amateur en the Round The Last Vampire book series de Christopher Pike   All Merendiando episodes are in Spanglish. New episodes of Radio Aluna Theatre are released every second Wednesday. Subscribe to this show wherever you get your podcasts.  Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Metcalf Foundation, The Laidlaw Foundation, The Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint & Gia Nahmens; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Camila Diaz-Varela and Monica Garrido. For more about Aluna Theatre, visit us at alunatheatre.ca, follow @alunatheatre on twitter or instagram, or ‘like’ us on facebook. Follow and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Todos los episodios de Merendiando son en Inglés, Español y Spanglish. Nuevos episodios de Radio Aluna Teatro cada Miércoles. Síguenos y suscríbete a este podcast en iTunes, Google Play, y donde sea que escuches tus podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro es una producción de Aluna Theatre con el apoyo de Metcalf Foundation, Laidlaw Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, y Toronto Arts Council. Aluna Theatre es Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, con Sue Balint & Gia Nahmens. Radio Aluna Theatre es producido por Camila Díaz-Varela y Mónica Garrido. Para más información sobre Aluna Theatre, visita nuestra página alunatheatre.ca, síguenos en twitter @alunatheatre o en instagram, o haz click en “me gusta” en facebook.

In this episode of APTN Face to Face: The long-time chief of Fort William First Nation hopes the relationship with the mayor of Thunder Bay can be repaired. Earlier this year, Peter Collins, chief and the CEO of Fort William, called for Bill Mauro to step down from his role on the embattled Thunder Bay Police Services Board. That and more in this episode of Face to Face.

In this episode of APTN Face to Face: The long-time chief of Fort William First Nation hopes the relationship with the mayor of Thunder Bay can be repaired. Earlier this year, Peter Collins, chief and the CEO of Fort William, called for Bill Mauro to step down from his role on the embattled Thunder Bay Police Services Board. That and more in this episode of Face to Face.

Patrice Mousseau, a member of the Fort William First Nation, had a successful career as radio and television host, news anchor, and journalist. She became a conscious entrepreneur when her daughter developed eczema and needed help, crafting business and purpose together while raising her daughter as a single mom. Now, Patrice is the owner/creator of Satya Organics Inc., providing NPN approved, certified USDA organic products to serve those with skin conditions, who those want a legitimate alternative to steroid products. Her company has grown and flourished since we last had Patrice on air. Lucca and Rebecca check in to see how this dynamic woman is doing and what she's creating now!

Patrice Mousseau is an Ojibway entrepreneur from Fort William First Nation, Ontario, who solved a market gap by creating a new line of organic skin care products out of her very own kitchen. Patrice Mousseau is the owner of company, Satya Organic Skin Care, which... The post Removing the Stigma of Debt with Patrice Mousseau – November 26, 2018 appeared first on Startup Canada.

On this, the first episode of Colour Code, we try to figure out Indian Status: who gets it, what it means, where it came from and how it resonates in Canada and indigenous communities today. We talk to: Stephanie Pangowish, a comedian with the indigenous troupe Manifest Destiny’s Child, Michael Etherington, cultural program manager of the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, and Damien Lee, who grew up on the Fort William First Nation outside of Thunder Bay, Ont.

In this episode of Red Man Laughing we take you to Fort William First Nation to visit a group of incredible Anishinaabeg that are dedicating their time, love & energy to a special stand of Maple trees on the side of Mount McKay.

(Click on title to hear podcast)On August 22, 2007, eight Fort William First Nation youth and one Elder participated in the Anishinabek of the Gitchi Gami's "Waste Diversion Tour". Participants were introduced to various waste diversion options available in the neighbouring City of Thunder Bay, which Fort William First Nation citizens can utilize to make our community cleaner and healthier.

(click the title to hear audio file)The Anishinabek of the Gitchi Gami brought recycling to the Fort William First Nation annual traditional powwow for the first time. Several people are interviewed about the issue in this podcast.With the help of our partner, ReCool Canada Inc., we were able to provide powwow-goers with the option to recycle - and people made the most of it! 75 kg of recyclable material was diverted from the waste stream. We also organized this mobile recycling depot for the 2007 National Aboriginal Day powwow, that took place the week previous (June 21, 2007).The FWFN powwow took place June 30 - July 1, 2007, on Mt McKay on Fort William First Nation.For more info, contact ecostewards.fwfn(at)gmail.com

(click on the title to hear the podcast)Today, Anishinabek of the Gitchi Gami Citizens Council member Eugene Bannon caught non-Fort William First Nation citizens trying to dump garbage on our community. Listen to his story in this podcast.Fort William First Nation has a bylaw that is supposed to prevent non-community members from dumping any waste on our land. However, the bylaw does not prevent community members from dumping their waste. This not only has resulted in an un-engineered dumpsite called the 'Squaw Bay Road Dump' where waste is burned frequently; it has also created a loop-hole where community members let their friends (or people who pay them) dump garbage on Fort William First Nation for free. By doing this, garbage dumpers avoid paying $5 to dispose of garbage properly at the City of Thunder Bay Landfill, but the health of our community members is being compromised as these wastes are burned in vandal fires at the Squaw Bay Road Dump on a daily basis.

(Click on title to hear audio file)Tim Solomon reaches out to indigenous peoples with a message he calls "R.E.Z. Life" (Rough Environmental Zones).If you would like to contact us, please send Tim an email at ecostewards.fwfn(at)gmail.com.This podcast was recorded at Anishinabek of the Gitchi Gami Studios, Fort William First Nation, Canada.

(Click on title to hear audio file)Heather McLeod of the CBC Radio Thunder Bay program "Voyage North" came out to Fort William First Nation on Wednesday December 13, 2006 to interview youth about our pollution mapping project titled "Identifying Pollution Affecting Fort William First Nation - Youth Perspectives".The interview was meant to raise awareness about the over 250 random dumpsites found on our reserve, in the November 2006 project, which was funded by the Laidlaw Foundation. It was also our opportunity to invite the public to an Open House that took place on Sunday December 17, 2006, where the results of the project were communicated to the public.The outputs of the project were: a poster-sized map called 'Fort William First Nation Random Dumpsites and Adjacent Industry', a Youth Declaration on Pollution Affecting Fort William First Nation, and a youth-led photo exhibit titled 'This is What We Call Home'. The poster map and youth declaration were presented to the Fort William First Nation Chief and Council on January 16, 2007.This audio file is copyrighted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2006).