Provincial Restrictions & Public Health Measures Lifting of the Province-Wide Stay-at-Home OrderOn Tuesday, February 16th, Ontario lifted its Stay-at-Home-Order for 27 more public health unit regions in the province. These 27 regions have now been placed into colour-code categories of Ontario’s COVID-19 Framework based on local public health indicators. On February 19th, Ontario announced...

Policy Advisor – Political Office Posting - Contract Position SUMMARY The Policy Advisor gathers, analyses, reviews and reports data related to government initiatives, legislation, and policies in order to advise the AIAI Executive of any potential impacts relating to our Member Nation Communities. Responsibilities also include ensuring data is presented in a clear and actionable way; su...

Provincial Restrictions & Public Health MeasuresStay at Home Order and State of EmergencyOn January 13th, 2021, the province declared an immediately effective state of emergency and implemented a province-wide stay at home order. This order requires everyone to remain at home, leaving for essential purposes only. Examples of essential purposes include: • Going to the grocery store or pharm...

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London, Ontario January 22nd, 2021 – The Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians would like to extend their congratulations to Laurie Carr of Hiawatha First Nation, Mississaugas of Rice Lake, on her re-election to Chief. Chief Carr will continue her work for her Citizens and Community and proudly follows in the footsteps of her father Frank Cowie who was Chief of Hiawatha from 1977 to 1997....

Provincial Restrictions & Public Health Measures Stay at Home Order and State of Emergency On January 13th, 2021, the province declared an immediately effective state of emergency and implemented a province-wide stay at home order. This order requires everyone to remain at home, leaving for essential purposes only. Examples of essential purposes include: • Going to the grocery store or pharma...

London, Ontario January 4th, 2020 – The words and deeds of Mike Harris when he served as Premier of Ontario still echo today as loud as they did when he was quoted as saying “I want those f**king Indians out of the park”.  The man that profited off of the suffering of seniors, pressured police action that led to the death of Anthony Dudley George, and who took responsibility for the Walkerto...

London, Ontario December 17th, 2020 – On December 14th Brayden Bushby was convicted of manslaughter for the death of Barbara Kentner.  His conviction, which was reduced from second degree murder to manslaughter, is an insult to this tragedy and is the latest in a long line of behavior that is indicative of racism in our justice system. Grand Chief Joel Abram states “In the past, while in th...

Confirmed Cases First Nations in Ontario According to regional reports, there were 26 new positive results among First Nations people over the past week, which is about the same amount of new cases reported the week prior. Twenty of the new cases were among people living outside of First Nation communities and six of the new cases were in communities. There are currently 14 active COVID-1...