Status of Women committee  Call the media and have open houses and get our MLA and MP to show up.

Status of Women committee  Have good news pieces. I'm not kidding about the media. Just have good news pieces, because there's so much bad news that it's good to see.

Status of Women committee  We're just nice with them.

Status of Women committee  It's realizing that the business people are also experiencing the effects of what's happening in the economy. I had one gentleman put it to me like this: “I don't necessarily need to have the big piece of the pie; I just need to have small pieces of several pies.” There are times

Status of Women committee  I have a really hard time sitting down with a bunch of organizations and applying for grant funding for things when you have a certain pocket of money and then you have everybody fighting to get that money and competing with each other. It makes it really difficult, especially wh

Status of Women committee  That is part of it. We're doing well, but it also helps, too, when you receive capital grant funding. That cuts the bank and the interest rates out, and that's where a large part of the money is. If we're able to build something and then turn around and have a grant that accompli

Status of Women committee  I used to say common sense was common. It's not. Common sense comes from being in relationship and sharing experience. Basically, it's the native tradition of the elders talking to somebody else who's coming up. In aboriginal culture, one of the things that an elder has spoken to

Status of Women committee  Thank you. My name is Boyd Thomas. I am the executive director of the Aboriginal Housing Society in Lethbridge, Alberta. I have held that position since January 2008. What we have basically done is to have used a grant that we received to build a 29-unit complex of affordable ho