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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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Immigration officials at the Alberta-Montana border are being criticized by the region's bands for enforcing immigration policies that do not respect family ties or religious practices.
Complaints coming out of the Blackfoot and Blackfeet nations include the opening of medicine bundles and failure to recognize common-law marriages that keep families separated.
"It's…
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Louis Riel was honored in Toronto by six Metis who laid a wreath at the monument for the soldiers who executed the Metis leader for treason in 1885.
The wreath-laying ceremony took place on the 107th anniversary of the date
Riel was hanged as a traitor for his role in the Northwest Rebellion.
Ron Swain, president of the Ontario Metis and Aboriginal…
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Louis Riel was honored in Toronto by six Metis who laid a wreath at the monument for the soldiers who executed the Metis leader for treason in 1885.
The wreath-laying ceremony took place on the 107th anniversary of the date
Riel was hanged as a traitor for his role in the Northwest Rebellion.
Ron Swain, president of the Ontario Metis and Aboriginal…
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Louis Riel was honored in Toronto by six Metis who laid a wreath at the monument for the soldiers who executed the Metis leader for treason in 1885.
The wreath-laying ceremony took place on the 107th anniversary of the date
Riel was hanged as a traitor for his role in the Northwest Rebellion.
Ron Swain, president of the Ontario Metis and Aboriginal…
Page 2
Louis Riel was honored in Toronto by six Metis who laid a wreath at the monument for the soldiers who executed the Metis leader for treason in 1885.
The wreath-laying ceremony took place on the 107th anniversary of the date
Riel was hanged as a traitor for his role in the Northwest Rebellion.
Ron Swain, president of the Ontario Metis and Aboriginal…
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The editor of a northern Native newspaper is being forced to testify at trials of people charged at a picket line riot and fears the court appearances could send a chill over future coverage.
"I certainly think this could have the effect of muzzling the press," said Lee Selleck, editor of the western Arctic Press Independent newspaper.
"I'm going to spend a lot of…
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The editor of a northern Native newspaper is being forced to testify at trials of people charged at a picket line riot and fears the court appearances could send a chill over future coverage.
"I certainly think this could have the effect of muzzling the press," said Lee Selleck, editor of the western Arctic Press Independent newspaper.
"I'm going to spend a lot of…
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The editor of a northern Native newspaper is being forced to testify at trials of people charged at a picket line riot and fears the court appearances could send a chill over future coverage.
"I certainly think this could have the effect of muzzling the press," said Lee Selleck, editor of the western Arctic Press Independent newspaper.
"I'm going to spend a lot of…
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The editor of a northern Native newspaper is being forced to testify at trials of people charged at a picket line riot and fears the court appearances could send a chill over future coverage.
"I certainly think this could have the effect of muzzling the press," said Lee Selleck, editor of the western Arctic Press Independent newspaper.
"I'm going to spend a lot of…
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Inuit in the Northwest Territories overwhelmingly supported their land claim in a ratification vote on the agreement which will eventually lead to the creation of an Inuit homeland called Nunavut.
Almost 70 per cent of the largely Inuit populatin voted in favor of the deal, which will give them surface rights to 350,000 square kilometres of land and more than $1 billion in…
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Inuit in the Northwest Territories overwhelmingly supported their land claim in a ratification vote on the agreement which will eventually lead to the creation of an Inuit homeland called Nunavut.
Almost 70 per cent of the largely Inuit populatin voted in favor of the deal, which will give them surface rights to 350,000 square kilometres of land and more than $1 billion in…
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Inuit in the Northwest Territories overwhelmingly supported their land claim in a ratification vote on the agreement which will eventually lead to the creation of an Inuit homeland called Nunavut.
Almost 70 per cent of the largely Inuit populatin voted in favor of the deal, which will give them surface rights to 350,000 square kilometres of land and more than $1 billion in…
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Inuit in the Northwest Territories overwhelmingly supported their land claim in a ratification vote on the agreement which will eventually lead to the creation of an Inuit homeland called Nunavut.
Almost 70 per cent of the largely Inuit populatin voted in favor of the deal, which will give them surface rights to 350,000 square kilometres of land and more than $1 billion in…
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A settlement of the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim should include the hotly disputed compensation package that has dead-locked current negotiations, a former Conservative cabinet member says.
"Any settlement has to take into account the facts of the treatment to which the Lubicon have been exposed," said E. Davie Fulton, who write a mid-80s government report on the Lubicon…
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A settlement of the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim should include the hotly disputed compensation package that has dead-locked current negotiations, a former Conservative cabinet member says.
"Any settlement has to take into account the facts of the treatment to which the Lubicon have been exposed," said E. Davie Fulton, who write a mid-80s government report on the Lubicon…