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The La Ronge Motor Hotel's housekeeper training program has been singled out as a case study by a national research body whose focus is business innovation.
Kurtis Kitagawa, a senior research associate with the Conference Board of Canada, spent two days in La Ronge last month, gathering information for his case study report on the band owned hotel's Workplace Open…
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Drawn by the promise of outdoor fun and heart-pounding excitement, dozens of Aboriginal youth from across Saskatchewan travelled to Whitecap Dakota/Sioux First Nation Aug. 20 to 22 to take part in a youth rodeo school.
According to organizer Curtis Taypotat, and backed up by the broad grins of every eager participant, the school was a big success.
"I think overall…
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Delores Thunderchild has had a very busy few months. Since being hired on as the crime prevention worker for Thunderchild First Nation back in May, she has been working to help co-ordinate a number of initiatives aimed at increasing the safety and security on reserve.
A new Neighborhood watch program has been started, with a Crime Stoppers program next on the list of…
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More than 150 youth from around Saskatchewan descended on Fort Qu'Appelle Aug. 16, 17, and 18 for a conference on First Nations and Metis youth leadership issues.
Sponsored by the provincial association of friendship centers, the Aboriginal Youth Leadership Development Conference sought to prepare today's young people for tomorrow's challenges, said the conference's co-…
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With the presence of Aboriginal youth gangs on the rise in some of Canada's urban centres, the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) has decided to take a look at what the situation is here in Saskatchewan.
Through the Alter-Natives to Non-Violence project, launched late last month, the FSIN plans to develop a strategy for dealing with the problem of Aboriginal…
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Aboriginal families in four northwest communities will have a chance to work together to improve their literacy skills, thanks to a new program to be launched later this year.
Parent and Child . . . Partners for Life will be offered through the Western Region campus of Northlands College in Buffalo Narrows.
Rita McCallum, literacy facilitator with the college, is co…
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Though strides are being made, a wide disparity still exists in literacy rates and educational achievement between Saskatchewan's Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal population. The gap is widest among adults, due at least in part to the difficulty that adults looking to further their academic development often have finding suitable programs.
The Regina-based Circle Project…
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The Prince Albert Literacy Network is working to increase the number of Aboriginal books it uses in its programs, and is hoping members of the Aboriginal community will help them out.
The network has been working to improve literacy rates among people in the Prince Albert area for 11 years. This year, its efforts were recognized, receiving a literacy award for Community…
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A CD release party was held at the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon on Aug. 29 to celebrate the eagerly anticipated launches of two very different, but equally outstanding music collections.
One of the releases was the Gabriel Dumont Institute's Drops of Brandy and Other Traditional Metis Tunes, a vast 4-CD compilation of Metis fiddle music. The other was Andrea Menard's The…
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?Born and raised in Cumberland House. Father Arthur (Archie) Goulet was the first local Co-op store manager. Mother Veronique (nee Carriere) Goulet was a local school board trustee and president of the local Catholic Women's League.
? Attended teachers' college in Ontario and by 1967 was teaching grades 2 to 4 in Aroland, Ont., then Grade 6 from 1969 to 1971 in Moose…
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ake one well-oiled political machine, add a dash of lemon juice and a few handfuls of spice, and turn gently on a spit for as long as one of his speeches--say, three hours. That was the recipe Keith Goulet's friends, family and colleagues used Sept. 7, as they gathered at the La Ronge Motor Hotel for the Cumberland MLA's retirement roast.
"The only thing I asked Keith…
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August 28 was back to school day in the Fort Qu'Appelle area, and not just for the students.
More than 100 teachers, administrators, and school representatives came to the Treaty 4 Governance Centre to discuss ways to improve the lot of Aboriginal children in the school system.
Those school systems will be facing a large overhaul - in attitudes as much as anything…
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While many Canadian veterans took time on Aug. 19 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid, Canada's surviving Metis veterans had begun the latest battle in their ongoing fight for compensation.
The Metis veterans-some in their 70s, some in their 80s and 90s-are ready to do battle with the federal government in an attempt to win for themselves the…
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Seven Regina homelessness projects will receive just over $729,000 in funding as part of the National Homelessness Initiative.
Aman House Inc. will receive $21,000 to train its staff in proposal writing and partnership building, as well to help the organization identify priority activities and establish a plan for long-term sustainability of it's homelessness activities.…
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Fort Smith, N.W.T. resident Rob Genaille began his long trek to Winnipeg on Aug. 10, with a number of stops at First Nations and Metis communities planned along the way.
His purpose for the trip is to raise awareness about diabetes and to raise funds for a new family resource centre in Fort Smith.
The 47-year-old stresses that he does not have diabetes, and he…