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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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Birke Stonefish held a copy of the August Windspeaker up against the glass in the visitors' cubicle at the Edmonton Remand Centre. The front-page story about the sentence imposed on Ontario Provincial Police Acting-Sgt. Kenneth Deane was dotted with marks made by a yellow highlighter, each mark represented a section that outraged the Aboriginal prisoner.
"Is this justice…
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Birke Stonefish held a copy of the August Windspeaker up against the glass in the visitors' cubicle at the Edmonton Remand Centre. The front-page story about the sentence imposed on Ontario Provincial Police Acting-Sgt. Kenneth Deane was dotted with marks made by a yellow highlighter, each mark represented a section that outraged the Aboriginal prisoner.
"Is this justice…
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Birke Stonefish held a copy of the August Windspeaker up against the glass in the visitors' cubicle at the Edmonton Remand Centre. The front-page story about the sentence imposed on Ontario Provincial Police Acting-Sgt. Kenneth Deane was dotted with marks made by a yellow highlighter, each mark represented a section that outraged the Aboriginal prisoner.
"Is this justice…
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Representatives of Toronto's Native community met with Metro Police Chief David Boothby in September to discuss the role of the police in the city's Aboriginal community.
The meeting was planned by the Aboriginal Peace Keeping Unit, the only urban Native police force in Canada. It gives city Natives the chance to deal with their own people when problems arise.
The…
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Representatives of Toronto's Native community met with Metro Police Chief David Boothby in September to discuss the role of the police in the city's Aboriginal community.
The meeting was planned by the Aboriginal Peace Keeping Unit, the only urban Native police force in Canada. It gives city Natives the chance to deal with their own people when problems arise.
The…
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Representatives of Toronto's Native community met with Metro Police Chief David Boothby in September to discuss the role of the police in the city's Aboriginal community.
The meeting was planned by the Aboriginal Peace Keeping Unit, the only urban Native police force in Canada. It gives city Natives the chance to deal with their own people when problems arise.
The…
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Rivalries - jurisdictional and otherwise - between off-reserve police services and the local Peacekeepers foiled a raid on a warehouse on the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in early September, a Kahnawake councillor says.
Members of the elected Kahnawake council took action to prevent a joint Royal Canadian Mounted Police/ Montreal Urban Community police operation on their…
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Rivalries - jurisdictional and otherwise - between off-reserve police services and the local Peacekeepers foiled a raid on a warehouse on the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in early September, a Kahnawake councillor says.
Members of the elected Kahnawake council took action to prevent a joint Royal Canadian Mounted Police/ Montreal Urban Community police operation on their…
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Rivalries - jurisdictional and otherwise - between off-reserve police services and the local Peacekeepers foiled a raid on a warehouse on the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in early September, a Kahnawake councillor says.
Members of the elected Kahnawake council took action to prevent a joint Royal Canadian Mounted Police/ Montreal Urban Community police operation on their…
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The firm contracted by Indian Affairs to carry out a forensic audit at the Stoney Indian Reserve will be flooding the Native community with letters and pamphlets in the upcoming weeks.
The information blitz is to give the community a chance to state any problems they have encountered with the Stoney tribal administration.
The news of the campaign comes three months…
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The firm contracted by Indian Affairs to carry out a forensic audit at the Stoney Indian Reserve will be flooding the Native community with letters and pamphlets in the upcoming weeks.
The information blitz is to give the community a chance to state any problems they have encountered with the Stoney tribal administration.
The news of the campaign comes three months…
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The firm contracted by Indian Affairs to carry out a forensic audit at the Stoney Indian Reserve will be flooding the Native community with letters and pamphlets in the upcoming weeks.
The information blitz is to give the community a chance to state any problems they have encountered with the Stoney tribal administration.
The news of the campaign comes three months…
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Quebec's premier, Lucien Bouchard, and the president of the Makivik Corporation, Zebedee Nungak, agreed to restart talks on an autonomous government for the people of Nunavik in northern Quebec.
The Nunavik territory occupies northern Quebec from the 55th parallel upwards. There are about 7,000 Inuit in 14 communities along the Hudson and Ungava Bays.
Autonomy…
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Each side accused the other of using threats and intimidation when lawyers for Japanese multi-national corporation Daishowa, Inc. and members of the activist group Friends of the Lubicon tangled in an Ontario courtroom late last month.
Daishowa initiated the court action. The company is seeking to have an existing temporary injunction which prohibits the promotion of a…
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Each side accused the other of using threats and intimidation when lawyers for Japanese multi-national corporation Daishowa, Inc. and members of the activist group Friends of the Lubicon tangled in an Ontario courtroom late last month.
Daishowa initiated the court action. The company is seeking to have an existing temporary injunction which prohibits the promotion of a…