First Nations Voice

PAGE 2 • OCTOBER 2015 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 31 , 2015 The advertising deadline is October 21, 2015 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 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 The First Nations Voice is about building bridges of understanding between First Nation peoples and Canadians by offering articles, columns and features from a First Nations perspective. The challenge as a small media entity, of course, comes down to what stories should be covered within the limited space of a monthly publication. Also the other challenge in a city like Winnipeg, and even more broadly put the province, comes down to what stories to feature because there are many events and issues happening within a month but, and this comes down to me as an editor and journalist, what can I bring to the table that is different from what has already been published or broadcast from two to three weeks before the publication of this paper. I am not apologizing but just spelling it out for those people who have asked why an event that I attended did not make it into the paper. For example, I attended the an announcement by three charities at Oodena Circle a few months ago just one day after the paper was published. Unfortunately, by the time the next cycle came to print the worthwhile cause, a launch of a new health care program was just too far gone in the news cycle. And I must give credit where it's due because I thought the mainstream media did an adequate job of covering the ambitious program that does not include any government funding. So for that I'd like to give a brief nod to The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, The Kidney Foundation of Canada – Manitoba Branch, and the National Aboriginal Diabetes Association. The answer should be to expand The First Nations Voice website so that events and issues would still be covered on a daily basis online with the publication serving as a sort of best-of end of the month wrap up. Again, this expanding web presence is still in the thinking aloud stage. But I'll certainly let the faithful readers know if and when that happens. As an example within this paper, I wrote about the Kapyong Barracks court case after Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the government wouldn't be taking the case to the Supreme Court. And while the Kapyong Barracks story has been covered many times and by a plethora in the mainstream news, I have included what is missing from many of those news stories. The First Nations Voice is keen to adapt and moving forward to best serve our readers and advertisers. Feel free to contact me with your thought. Thank you Trevor Greyeyes, Editor First Nations Voice What We do at the First NatioNs Voice Trevor Greyeyes, Editor First Nations Voice

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