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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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I was once in the army. Okay, it was really the militia, but 13 years ago I was a member of the 15th Edmonton Medical Company of Canadian Armed Forces Reserves.
It was hardly an illustrious career. I didn't go overseas. I barely got out of Edmonton. In fact, I didn't even make it to full private after one year. But to be fair to myself, that was due to scheduling problems…
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I was once in the army. Okay, it was really the militia, but 13 years ago I was a member of the 15th Edmonton Medical Company of Canadian Armed Forces Reserves.
It was hardly an illustrious career. I didn't go overseas. I barely got out of Edmonton. In fact, I didn't even make it to full private after one year. But to be fair to myself, that was due to scheduling problems…
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Aboriginal people involved in the day-to-day workings of the justice system were eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Corrine Sparks case. Judge Sparks is the first black woman judge in Canada's history. She sits on the provincial court bench in Nova Scotia. During a case she was hearing which involved testimony from a white police officer and a 16-year-…
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Aboriginal people involved in the day-to-day workings of the justice system were eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Corrine Sparks case. Judge Sparks is the first black woman judge in Canada's history. She sits on the provincial court bench in Nova Scotia. During a case she was hearing which involved testimony from a white police officer and a 16-year-…
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Aboriginal people involved in the day-to-day workings of the justice system were eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Corrine Sparks case. Judge Sparks is the first black woman judge in Canada's history. She sits on the provincial court bench in Nova Scotia. During a case she was hearing which involved testimony from a white police officer and a 16-year-…
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Violence came at the height of the tension that flared up in the summer of 1995 between Natives who fish Georgian Bay commercially and sports anglers.
Two young men from the Cape Croker reserve north of Owen Sound were stabbed while police, some witnesses say, watched from behind a fence.
Two years have passed since the attack, but the Chippewas of Nawash will have…
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Violence came at the height of the tension that flared up in the summer of 1995 between Natives who fish Georgian Bay commercially and sports anglers.
Two young men from the Cape Croker reserve north of Owen Sound were stabbed while police, some witnesses say, watched from behind a fence.
Two years have passed since the attack, but the Chippewas of Nawash will have…
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Violence came at the height of the tension that flared up in the summer of 1995 between Natives who fish Georgian Bay commercially and sports anglers.
Two young men from the Cape Croker reserve north of Owen Sound were stabbed while police, some witnesses say, watched from behind a fence.
Two years have passed since the attack, but the Chippewas of Nawash will have…
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A British Columbia Supreme Court judge's written reasons for choosing to grant custody of a two-year-old child of Aboriginal ancestry to his non-Aboriginal adoptive grandparents make infuriating reading for workers and activists who seek to stop cross-cultural adoptions.
During hearings in early September, both the biological grandfather and the adoptive grandparents were…
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A British Columbia Supreme Court judge's written reasons for choosing to grant custody of a two-year-old child of Aboriginal ancestry to his non-Aboriginal adoptive grandparents make infuriating reading for workers and activists who seek to stop cross-cultural adoptions.
During hearings in early September, both the biological grandfather and the adoptive grandparents were…
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A British Columbia Supreme Court judge's written reasons for choosing to grant custody of a two-year-old child of Aboriginal ancestry to his non-Aboriginal adoptive grandparents make infuriating reading for workers and activists who seek to stop cross-cultural adoptions.
During hearings in early September, both the biological grandfather and the adoptive grandparents were…
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An Ontario labor leader has pledged provincial union support of calls for a public inquiry into the shooting death of Anthony (Dudley) George at Ipperwash Provincial Park in September 1995.
Gord Wilson, president of Ontario's Federation of Labour, said Ontario's unions may hold a Toronto rally at the Ontario legislature to join Native people demanding the inquiry.
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An Ontario labor leader has pledged provincial union support of calls for a public inquiry into the shooting death of Anthony (Dudley) George at Ipperwash Provincial Park in September 1995.
Gord Wilson, president of Ontario's Federation of Labour, said Ontario's unions may hold a Toronto rally at the Ontario legislature to join Native people demanding the inquiry.
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An Ontario labor leader has pledged provincial union support of calls for a public inquiry into the shooting death of Anthony (Dudley) George at Ipperwash Provincial Park in September 1995.
Gord Wilson, president of Ontario's Federation of Labour, said Ontario's unions may hold a Toronto rally at the Ontario legislature to join Native people demanding the inquiry.
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A spokesman for the Union of Ontario Indians has said it is time to do whatever it takes to deal with the anti-democratic policies of Ontario's Harris government.
Glen Hare, the chief of West Bay First Nation and regional chief of the Union of Ontario Indians, told participants at a Days of Action rally in North Bay, Ont. on Sept. 27 that Premier Mike Harris abuses his…