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PAGE 2 • JUNE 2012 ADVERTISING MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS First Nations Voice creates an opportunity for advertisers, businesses and all levels of government to reach First Nations audiences in Manitoba. With a focus on training, education and employment opportunities, this publication serves to showcase opportunities available to First Nations and all Aboriginal people. department, 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. disk or delivered electronically, should be Mac compatible. Please include all files necessary for output. Call the Winnipeg Free Press pre-press All digital advertising files, whether on NEXT ISSUE: July 4, 2012 The July advertising deadline is June 20, 2012 Alan Isfeld (204-256-0645) / e-mail rdeagle@mts.net For your ad placement and contents CONTACT EDITH BONNER (204-697-7389) edith.bonner@freepress.mb.ca Toll free 1-800-542-8900 HOW TO CONTACT US PUBLISHER Al Isfeld (204.256.0645) Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Scanterbury, MB R0E 1W0 Phone 204.256.0645 E-mail rdeagle@mts.net ASSISTANT EDITOR Breanna Lambert (204.256.0645) All Rights Reserved. 100-per-cent First Nations owned — Distribution: 94,685 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. the Winnipeg Free Press office. No out of office sales rep will collect cash outside of this office. Please direct questions to Edith Bonner 697-7389. All payments for advertisements in the First Nations Voice should be directed through 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 Advertising Sales Edith Bonner 204.697.7389 / edith.bonner@freepress.mb.ca Mike Manko 918-7768 mmanko@mymts.net Sales and Marketing Breanna Lambert (204.256.0645) Subscriptions $26.25 annually, payable to First Nations Voice c/o Winnipeg Free Press Access to affordable food a 'desperate situation' toba Chiefs (AMC) was happy to hear the UN Food Envoy's prelimi- nary comments on its trip around Canada. The AMC worked diligently to ensure UN Special Rapporteur, Dr. Olivier De Schutter, and his staff, had the op- portunity to see the re- mote communities as well as the effects of last year's flood on the agricultural and fishing economies of our people in Manitoba. "The Rapporteur was Message from Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief DEREK NEPINAK The Assembly of Mani- the Rights of Rapporteur's ples, calling it a positive step. AMC agrees with the UN initial Indigenous Peo- tions and calls on Canada to start working with First Nations leaders in Manitoba and across Canada to lift First Nations peo- ple out of third world conditions. "We trust from the visit, Dr. observa- able to see what could be described as a desperate situation in our Northern communities with respect to access to food, access to affordable food. "Dr. De Schutter's call De Schutter and ultimately the United Nations, now better un- derstands that Indigenous peo- ples of Manitoba and Canada have had their own systems of food gen- eration, relying on traditional k n ow l - edge for a reform of the Nutrition North Canada program is welcomed and I would hope the Fed- eral and Provincial governments will implement recommendations for the benefit of our people," said Grand Chief Derek Nepinak. ommendation for a continued and concerted measure, to develop new initiatives and reform existing ones, in consultation and in real partnership with Indigenous peoples. Dr. De Schutter also made a rec- Indigenous peoples' own self de- termination and decision making over their affairs at all levels and reminds Canada of its support for the United Nations Declaration on With the goal of strengthening harvest- ing, plant- ing and consump- tion tech- n iques, but over the for 1 0 0 y e a r s , last Derek J. Nepinak LL.B., B.A. (Hons) Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief, federal Indian policy and pro- vincial interference disrupted and in some cases, devas- tating the tradition practices of First Nations in this coun- try." said Grand Chief Derek Nepinak. "It has undoubtedly destroyed the control First Nations once held over their land and traditional agricul- ture, altering the diets of the Indigenous people of country," Nepinak added. ~ Supplied by this Sheila North Wilson