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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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Maggie Hodgson is quitting smoking.
This will be "about the 50th time," the executive director of the Nechi Institute
has tried to quit, but Hodgson says this time will be different. This time she has her usual resolve, but she also has another, perhaps stronger incentive.
Hodgson has just been signed on as a member of Health and Welfare Canada's advisory…
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Will Johnson has been arrested 136 times. Each time, he was drunk.
"If I didn't drink, I wouldn't have a criminal record today," he says.
Many of the charges were simply for being intoxicated in a public place but quite
a few were for assault. In 1972 he was convicted of manslaughter. The sentence was suspended. Two years later he was charged with attempted…
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Will Johnson has been arrested 136 times. Each time, he was drunk.
"If I didn't drink, I wouldn't have a criminal record today," he says.
Many of the charges were simply for being intoxicated in a public place but quite
a few were for assault. In 1972 he was convicted of manslaughter. The sentence was suspended. Two years later he was charged with attempted…
Page 11
Will Johnson has been arrested 136 times. Each time, he was drunk.
"If I didn't drink, I wouldn't have a criminal record today," he says.
Many of the charges were simply for being intoxicated in a public place but quite
a few were for assault. In 1972 he was convicted of manslaughter. The sentence was suspended. Two years later he was charged with attempted…
Page 11
Will Johnson has been arrested 136 times. Each time, he was drunk.
"If I didn't drink, I wouldn't have a criminal record today," he says.
Many of the charges were simply for being intoxicated in a public place but quite
a few were for assault. In 1972 he was convicted of manslaughter. The sentence was suspended. Two years later he was charged with attempted…
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Some might call it the little campaign that grew.
Hundreds of communities across Canada celebrated National Addictions Awareness Week with dances, talent shows, powwows and open houses.
The five-year-old campaign has grown in leaps and bounds since 1987, when
a handful of communities agreed to set aside the third week in November for activities promoting a…
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Some might call it the little campaign that grew.
Hundreds of communities across Canada celebrated National Addictions Awareness Week with dances, talent shows, powwows and open houses.
The five-year-old campaign has grown in leaps and bounds since 1987, when
a handful of communities agreed to set aside the third week in November for activities promoting a…
Page 7
Some might call it the little campaign that grew.
Hundreds of communities across Canada celebrated National Addictions Awareness Week with dances, talent shows, powwows and open houses.
The five-year-old campaign has grown in leaps and bounds since 1987, when
a handful of communities agreed to set aside the third week in November for activities promoting a…
Page 7
Some might call it the little campaign that grew.
Hundreds of communities across Canada celebrated National Addictions Awareness Week with dances, talent shows, powwows and open houses.
The five-year-old campaign has grown in leaps and bounds since 1987, when
a handful of communities agreed to set aside the third week in November for activities promoting a…
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Tansi, ahnee and hello. This is the storyteller time. These long cold moons of winter were the times when the storytellers would gather their people around those old tribal fires. This was the time the legends came alive again. Tables of Wesakechak, Nanabush, Glooscap and Raven. Across the length and breadth of North America the stories were told.
Sitting here in the early…
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Tansi, ahnee and hello. This is the storyteller time. These long cold moons of winter were the times when the storytellers would gather their people around those old tribal fires. This was the time the legends came alive again. Tables of Wesakechak, Nanabush, Glooscap and Raven. Across the length and breadth of North America the stories were told.
Sitting here in the early…
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Tansi, ahnee and hello. This is the storyteller time. These long cold moons of winter were the times when the storytellers would gather their people around those old tribal fires. This was the time the legends came alive again. Tables of Wesakechak, Nanabush, Glooscap and Raven. Across the length and breadth of North America the stories were told.
Sitting here in the early…
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Tansi, ahnee and hello. This is the storyteller time. These long cold moons of winter were the times when the storytellers would gather their people around those old tribal fires. This was the time the legends came alive again. Tables of Wesakechak, Nanabush, Glooscap and Raven. Across the length and breadth of North America the stories were told.
Sitting here in the early…
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Pikiskwe
The Charlottetown Accord has come and gone. Canadians across this country,
for whatever reasons, have clearly rejected the proposals. The debates are over, but the effects of the arguments will continue to be felt in this country for a long time.
What I found most disturbing about the debates was the lack of confidence some sectors of Native and non…
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In a more perfect world, the police are in place to protect society from its criminal element. This, however, is not a perfect world.
And a recent court decision in Ottawa and police actions in Yellowknife have served notice that police can and will use their legal power to protect themselves from the public they serve and harass citizens leading their lives within the law…