Aborignal Community Housing

 Wasaya Group is working with a contracting company and a Chinese business to provide affordable housing to area First Nation communities.

Dowland Contracting Spokesperson Don Wing says they'll be hiring northerners to put together pre-fabricated homes made out of steel.

A formal signing ceremony was held Wednesday in Thunder Bay.

Aboriginal Missing Womens Summit

Provincial cabinet ministers and Canada's aboriginal leaders meet today in Winnipeg to discuss missing and murdered aboriginal women.

But there is no sign that the two sides are any closer to an agreement on calls for a national inquiry.

Eric Robinson, Manitoba's minister of aboriginal affairs, says there may be better options.

The Assembly of First Nations and other groups say an inquiry is needed to examine how police have handled missing persons cases, as well as the social and economic factors that make aboriginal women more prone to violence.

Canadian G-D-P Shrinks

G-D-P shrank by 0.1 per cent in August, setting the stage for the worst quarter of economic activity in more than a year.

Statistics Canada recorded setbacks in 10 out of 18 industrial sectors and Scotiabank economist Derek Holt says temporary factors aren't solely to blame.

Holt believes the Bank of Canada will turn even more dovish in its January monetary policy report, in a manner that takes out any rate hikes any time soon.