Sunshine Tenasco-Brazeau appears on Dragon's Den

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Patrick Brazeau's wife, Sunshine popped on to Dragon' Den recently looking for $20,000 to buy a better sewing maching so she can expand a side business making baby moccasins. Check it out: http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/video.html?ID=1437854502 go about 16 minutes in.

I like the part where Kevin asks why not make them in China.

Also worth noting that just before offering her a loan Arlene Dickinson states: "I was a single mom with four little kids.. I completely understand what your going through..." I am guessing Arlene didn't release she had a senator's wife in front of her. Later Arlene adds "I remember being exactly where she is and having no money and nobody helping me. So good for her."

THe CBC episode description is also strangely misleading: "Sunshine Tenasco-Brazeau is a mother of three, trying to support her family off the fruits of her labour. She’s managed to create a small business based on a product she creates, and about which she is passionate. "

Sunshine was earlier awarded a third place prize at the Big Idea Aboriginal Innovations Conference which came with $10,000 to support her business.

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A new Patrick Brazeau Rumour

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Ok rumour, rumour, rumour. Hot off the phone I learn that our favourite infamous Senator Pat Brazeau is suing CAP and it's president Ms. Lavallee for 1.25 million buckaroos. Seems she might have said something he disagrees with during her bid for the top job at CAP.

Anyone out there know anything about this?

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Strange bedfellows

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Former National Chief Phil Fontaine and Senator Partick Brazeau, together? I hope someone with a cell phone took video.


YK Dene Chief skeptical about mining rare earth metals

- An exploration company is renaming a deposit southeast of Yellowknife today, in a traditional ceremony with the Dene First Nations.

But the proposed mining project may be too close for comfort for some.

Yellowknives Dene Chief, Ed Sangris, says the rare earth metal deposit at Thor Lake is close to traditional hunting and ancestral burial grounds.

He says although Avalon Rare Metals, Inc. has been consulting the First Nations about the drilling operation, the Dene still have to decide whether mining that close to home is worth the economic benefits.

“You gotta find the balance… do we do away with traditional culture… or do we keep our traditions?”

The deposit at Thor Lake is being renamed as Nechalacho, which Sangris says, in the Dene language means “the wind is always blowing”.

The company is flying the former Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Phil Fontaine, along with Canadian Senator Patrick Brazeau and the NWT Premier to the renaming ceremony southeast of Yellowknife. Sangris adds he’s not sure what Fontaine is doing on the company’s board of directors.

“I don’t know what they’re trying to pull. Maybe they’re just trying to garner First Nations support behind the project, you know, get someone in there, like Phil Fontaine, to convince us, ‘yeah, it’s okay’, but we have to make our own decision.”

Sangris says he plans to discuss the mining project with the Dene membership, while Avalon is conducting a pre-feasibility study at the Nechalacho site, expected to be finished by early 2010.

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