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Windspeaker Publication

Windspeaker Publication

Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, MEADOW LAKE SASK.

Page 10

The Saskatchewan government wants protesters blockading a northern logging road to dismantle their six-month-old camp. But members of the Protectors of Mother Earth organization say they are going to stay put.

Doug Cressman, the province's deputy minister of natural resources, has sent a letter to the group asking them to leave their cabins, tents and trailers on Highway…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 10

Loretta Todd has found a unique way to keep the memory of Native war veterans alive: capture their stories on film.

Forgotten Warriors is "a story that has needed to be told for a long time," said the CBC director and writer.

Native Canadians were not conscripted during the Second World War but many volunteered to serve, even though it often meant losing their…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 10

Loretta Todd has found a unique way to keep the memory of Native war veterans alive: capture their stories on film.

Forgotten Warriors is "a story that has needed to be told for a long time," said the CBC director and writer.

Native Canadians were not conscripted during the Second World War but many volunteered to serve, even though it often meant losing their…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 10

Loretta Todd has found a unique way to keep the memory of Native war veterans alive: capture their stories on film.

Forgotten Warriors is "a story that has needed to be told for a long time," said the CBC director and writer.

Native Canadians were not conscripted during the Second World War but many volunteered to serve, even though it often meant losing their…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Linda Caldwell, Windspeaker Staff Writer

Page 10

Loretta Todd has found a unique way to keep the memory of Native war veterans alive: capture their stories on film.

Forgotten Warriors is "a story that has needed to be told for a long time," said the CBC director and writer.

Native Canadians were not conscripted during the Second World War but many volunteered to serve, even though it often meant losing their…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Susan Thorne, Windspeaker Contributor, FRANKFURT GERMANY

Victors headed for home bearing 11 medals, 7 of them gold

Page 9

Native heritage came in for a good deal of attention in Europe recently though on unusual medium: Food.

A Canadian Native team took part for the first time in the international Culinary Olympics held in Frankfurt, Germany in October, competing with chefs from around the world in a demonstration of cooking…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Susan Thorne, Windspeaker Contributor, FRANKFURT GERMANY

Victors headed for home bearing 11 medals, 7 of them gold

Page 9

Native heritage came in for a good deal of attention in Europe recently though on unusual medium: Food.

A Canadian Native team took part for the first time in the international Culinary Olympics held in Frankfurt, Germany in October, competing with chefs from around the world in a demonstration of cooking…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Susan Thorne, Windspeaker Contributor, FRANKFURT GERMANY

Victors headed for home bearing 11 medals, 7 of them gold

Page 9

Native heritage came in for a good deal of attention in Europe recently though on unusual medium: Food.

A Canadian Native team took part for the first time in the international Culinary Olympics held in Frankfurt, Germany in October, competing with chefs from around the world in a demonstration of cooking…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Susan Thorne, Windspeaker Contributor, FRANKFURT GERMANY

Victors headed for home bearing 11 medals, 7 of them gold

Page 9

Native heritage came in for a good deal of attention in Europe recently though on unusual medium: Food.

A Canadian Native team took part for the first time in the international Culinary Olympics held in Frankfurt, Germany in October, competing with chefs from around the world in a demonstration of cooking…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Stephane Wuttunee, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

FIRST PERSON

Today, in a gentle manner, I ask you to walk with me. Having company for a change is nice, I often feel my way of thinking is lonely. Let us shed all differences and seek new vision together. The time for truth has come. My friend, close your physical eyes.

You will not need them to see.

Like a flashback from the past, imagine this scene: A…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Stephane Wuttunee, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

FIRST PERSON

Today, in a gentle manner, I ask you to walk with me. Having company for a change is nice, I often feel my way of thinking is lonely. Let us shed all differences and seek new vision together. The time for truth has come. My friend, close your physical eyes.

You will not need them to see.

Like a flashback from the past, imagine this scene: A…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Stephane Wuttunee, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

FIRST PERSON

Today, in a gentle manner, I ask you to walk with me. Having company for a change is nice, I often feel my way of thinking is lonely. Let us shed all differences and seek new vision together. The time for truth has come. My friend, close your physical eyes.

You will not need them to see.

Like a flashback from the past, imagine this scene: A…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Stephane Wuttunee, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 7

FIRST PERSON

Today, in a gentle manner, I ask you to walk with me. Having company for a change is nice, I often feel my way of thinking is lonely. Let us shed all differences and seek new vision together. The time for truth has come. My friend, close your physical eyes.

You will not need them to see.

Like a flashback from the past, imagine this scene: A…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Richard Wagamese, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 5

Tansi, ahnee and hello. The city of moonlight. Inside my head is a man with a horn. Jazz. I imagine him sitting alone on a window ledge somewhere blowing gigantic holes of incandescent blue in the night sky. The luminescence around me throws silhouettes of house and tree and schoolyard into patterns and shapes at once foreign

and familiar. I'm strolling the same city…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Richard Wagamese, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 5

Tansi, ahnee and hello. The city of moonlight. Inside my head is a man with a horn. Jazz. I imagine him sitting alone on a window ledge somewhere blowing gigantic holes of incandescent blue in the night sky. The luminescence around me throws silhouettes of house and tree and schoolyard into patterns and shapes at once foreign

and familiar. I'm strolling the same city…