{"id":25408,"date":"2013-11-20T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=25408"},"modified":"2013-11-20T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T21:35:27","slug":"brock-aboriginal-council-hosts-dialogue-on-issues-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/11\/brock-aboriginal-council-hosts-dialogue-on-issues-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Aboriginal council hosts dialogue on issues in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/aboriginal-education-council\">Brock&#8217;s Aboriginal Education Council (AEC)<\/a> hosted a roundtable discussion today at the University with more than 70 community members to talk about the Government of Canada&#8217;s proposed <em>First Nations Education Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which was co-ordinated in partnership with Niagara College&#8217;s Aboriginal Education Management Circle, Mohawk College&#8217;s Aboriginal Student Services and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneca.com\">Ontario Native Education Counselling Association (ONECA)<\/a>, is one of three information sessions taking place in Ontario this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is such a critical issue,&#8221; says Roxanne Manitowabi, Executive Director of ONECA, &#8220;which is why we needed to create these forums to start a dialogue, to create awareness about the impacts this legislation will have on our communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of Brock&#8217;s AEC who are also involved with ONECA helped to bring today&#8217;s discussion to Niagara&#8217;s university in an effort to raise awareness about the planned legislation with southern communities in the province.<\/p>\n<p>A similar meeting took place at the University of Sudbury yesterday and another is planned for at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/aboriginal-education-council\">Brock&#8217;s Aboriginal Education Council (AEC)<\/a> is committed to raising awareness of Aboriginal education and research at the University and in Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>The council is made up of members from local Aboriginal organizations, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenfc.org\/\">Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararegionmetiscouncil.org\/\">Niagara Region M\u00e9tis Council<\/a>; Non-Aboriginal organizations, like area school boards and post-secondary institutions; Aboriginal community members; Brock Aboriginal students; and senior administration from the University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock&#8217;s Aboriginal Education Council (AEC) hosted a roundtable discussion today at the University with more than 70 community members to talk about the Government of Canada&#8217;s proposed First Nations Education Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1107,1457,132,1458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25410,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25408\/revisions\/25410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}