Aboriginal Conferencing

WA: WA govt to adopt coroner's death in custody recommendation
AAP General News (Australia); 9/29/2009; 658 words; ...recommendations made by the coroner over the death in custody of an Aboriginal elder who was virtually cooked alive inside a prison van...Mr Porter said as part of the review into bail, video conferencing provisions and after hours services for remote areas would...

Northern strategy's human factor.(Opinion)
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 8/16/2009; 1247 words; ...and many northerners, particularly aboriginal people, are deeply unsettling and unacceptable...the lower educational attainment of aboriginal children. The education system itself...distances (using Internet and video-conferencing, for example) but these efforts are...

Feature: Virtual elder rekindles hope for revival of Canadian aboriginal language
Xinhua News Agency; 7/22/2009; 954 words; ...for revival of Canadian aboriginal language by Xinhua writers...helpless reality for Canada's aboriginal people that their native...passing of the elders in aboriginal communities. They actually...hightechs are enabling the aboriginals to make digital recordings...speed internet and ...

Province provides more than $300,000 for restorative justice programs.
M2 Presswire; 6/24/2009; 808 words; ...training programs, leadership development in schools, and Aboriginal restorative justice programs. 'Restorative justice is an...Justice Centre Mennonite Central Calgary Calgary Community Conferencing $25,000Committee Chipewyan Prairie Chard Red Willow Sentencing...

WA: Authorities show scant respect for elder's high standing
AAP General News (Australia); 6/19/2009; 1144 words; ...Kalgoorlie. The 46-year-old Aboriginal elder, known only as Mr...such as video and telephone conferencing as one way to put the cases...magistrates. Mr Hope said conferencing could have saved Mr Ward...relationships with non-Aboriginal communities, both nationally...