First Nations Voice

PAGE 2 • SEPTEMBER 2014 aDVERTiSinG MaTERial SPECiFiCaTionS First Nations Voice creates an opportunity for advertisers, businesses and all levels of government to reach First Nations audiences in Saskatchewan, Manitoba andt Ontario. With a focus on training, education and employment opportunities, this publication serves to showcase opportunities available to First Nations and all Aboriginal people. All digital advertising files, whether on disk or delivered electronically, should be Mac compatible. Please include all files necessary for output. Call the Winnipeg Free Press pre-press department, 204-697-7020, for more information about file types accepted. The Free Press can also build your ad. Please contact your First Nations Voice ad sales rep for details. NEXT ISSUE: October 1, 2014 The advertising deadline is September 17, 2014 For your ad placement and contents CONTACT TREVOR GREYEYES (204-282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com Toll free 1-800-542-8900 Alan Isfeld (204-256-0645) / e-mail: rdeagle@mymts.net HoW To ConTaCT US PUBliSHER Al Isfeld (204.256.0645) EDiToR Trevor Greyeyes (204.282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com All Rights Reserved. Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Scanterbury, MB R0E 1W0 Phone 204.256.0645 E-mail rdeagle@mymts.net 100-per-cent First nations owned — Distribution: 100,000 copies No material in First Nations Voice may be reproduced without permission of the copyright owner. First Nations Voice is published monthly by the First Nations Voice. All payments for advertisements in the First Nations Voice should be directed through the Winnipeg Free Press office. No out of office sales rep will collect cash outside of this office. Please direct questions to Trevor Greyeyes 204.282-6341. 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 advertising Sales Laurie Finley, VP Sales and Marketing / laurie.finley@freepress.mb.ca Barb Borden, Manager Niche Publishing/ barb.borden@freepress.mb.ca Subscriptions $26.25 annually, payable to First Nations Voice c/o Winnipeg Free Press How we live together in Winnipeg is one of the deepest and most profound issues facing our city. It is easy for politicians to make promises and offer simple solutions, but this does nothing to really address the long-term feeling of exclusion and discrimination that so many people feel in their hearts. The recent comments with respect 'Native People' made by the wife of another candidate are a major concern, because it demonstrates that we have been having a conversation between two groups who refuse to listen and hear what the other is saying. So let us acknowledge that many are afraid of being downtown and of having a potential encounter with those people, this is not a perceived fear, but real. Let us also acknowledge that those people have had very hard lives of suffering and pain and did not choose to live a life in the streets, but let us also acknowledge that many Indigenous people are also very successful and have created lives for themselves and families which are above reproach. My life's direction could be very different today. I have grown-up without food as a child, meaning there is no breakfast, lunch or dinner and I was even attending school (age 9). I know what it is like to be homeless camping in city parks with you mother asking for another blanket because it is getting cold in September and wondering if you are going to school that year. Those people I see in the street I could and I should be one of them, but because of people in my community who were not related to me by blood I had a change in my destiny. I received love, care and protection from a high school teacher who asked nothing of me because I had no money to give but who only wanted to give me his spirit with a sense of love. This is a difficult issue for politicians, for many do not know what to say, or how to begin to resolve this issue. Also, native street people do not vote and have little money to give to campaigns. I view them as my brothers and sister, mothers, fathers, cousin and aunt and uncles. They have taken a path in life which is very hard to repair even with the help of social services and social workers because of past hurt and suffering. This does not mean we should not help, but that we have a duty to ensure that we have a long-term view. Let us ensure that no child ends up in that situation in the first place. The recent death of a young girl found in the Red River in Winnipeg is a demonstration that our system is not working to offer that love care and protection to all our children. We are failing. This is why I have proposed that the City of Winnipeg adopt a child friendly city policy based on the UNICEF model where every law, policy, statement be viewed through the eyes of our children. How does it benefit the long-term development of all children? If we had to imaging a city in 20 years, what do we want it to look like. I am sure we would say clean roads and no pot-holes, but also what are the people like. A city is not just about roads or infrastructure, but the spirit of the people. We have inherited an imperfect world, but let us leave a world to our children that they will say we have created something fine and beautiful. There will not be one simple solution to these issues, but 10 000 little efforts on the part of all citizens; taking children into our homes and loving them; offering to become the mentor and guide to a young person. We will change this city by building 10 000 profound relationships based on love, care and protection. This is the most important election in generations for we have the power to change our collective history and future, but also the lives our young girls and boys so no tragic events occur again. One City United fOr All Children The recent death of a young girl found in the Red River in Winnipeg is a demonstration that our system is not working to offer that love care and protection to all our children Robert Falcon Ouellette Candidate for Mayor of Winnipeg www.falcon2014.com

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