First Nations Voice

PAGE 2 MAY 2016 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: JUNE 1, 2016 The advertising deadline is May 16, 2016 For your ad placement and contents CONTACT TREVOR GREYEYES (204-282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca 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 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 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CONSERVATIVES AND TO ALL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WHO WERE ELECTED F irstly, the First Nations Voice staff would like to thank the Conservatives and Premier-elect Brian Pallister on their provincial election victory. And secondly, to congratulate not only the Indigenous candidates for getting elected from the three big political parties but also for the countless others who took part in the democratic election process in Manitoba. Now I know there are some Indigenous people out there who talk about First Nations sovereignty and I can respect that even if I don't quite agree that one of the ways to assert that is by not taking part in foreign elections. And I know those who don't believe that Indigenous people should not be participating in a foreign election process have heard this before, but I will say it again, that one of the best ways to effect change is from within. Recently, I did an interview with Rick Harp (apparently a podcast for this former APTN news anchor and morning host of an Edmonton morning show) about the provincial election. Harp pointed out during the interview that the Conservatives had stated support for urban economic development zones, an inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's inquiry and Shoal Lake freedom road among other things. However, as I said to Harp, those words are more platitudes because those ideas didn't come with either a plan or a definite amount of funding. I am more than willing to allow this government to operate without offering a critical deconstruction of how these laudible goals have been met. And I should mention that Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak was the only one of the provincial First Nation organizations to offer congratulations to Brian Pallister and the Conservative Party, others may have sent one but I never received those news releases. Sheila North-Wilson, MKO Grand Chief said, "I have written to Premier-Elect Brian Pallister and am arranging a call with the Premier-Elect to personally share my congratulations and that of the MKO organization on the election of a Progressive Conservative government of Manitoba. MKO congratulates all of the candidates in all political Parties who stood and ran campaigns for election as Members of the Legislative Assembly" MKO looks forward to working with: Alan Lagimodiere, PC MLA for Selkirk; Bob Lagasse, PC MLA for Dawson Trail; Kevin Chief, NDP MLA for Point Douglas, Amanda Lathlin, NDP MLA for The Pas; Wab Kinew, NDP MLA for Fort Rouge; Nahanni Fontaine, NDP MLA for St. Johns; and Judy Klassen, Liberal MLA for Keewatinook. By Trevor Greyeyes

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