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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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Disbelief and then outrage erupted in Hobbema, Alta., when motorists insured with the Alberta Motor Association received letters indicating the association was refusing to renew their coverage.
The letter stated that residents who lived in the postal code area of TOC1NO would be affected.
Hobemma, which is located 175 km from Edmonton, is home to more than 13,000…
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, one of the big battles in the history of the free world. Donald Angus, Gunner, regimental number L11305, Island Tank 3rd Division, was there, deep in the thick of occupied territory.
From the dark, smoky landing in Normandy, to the bloody D-Day battle and final triumphant crossing of the Rhine, he shared in it all - the pain, the glory, the agony -…
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Manitoba's new NDP government has sent a clear message to Aboriginal people that it is intent on improving the province's relationship with them by appointing two Aboriginal MLAs to cabinet.
Rupertsland MLA Eric Robinson is the new minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs, a portfolio renamed from the Northern Affairs Departmenet by new Premier Gary Doer.
And…
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More than four years after 57-year-old Ojibway trapper Joseph Pahpasay was found dead in a Kenora Police Service jail after been detained for intoxication, an inquest into his death has recommended the Kenora Police Service implement three recommendations to help prevent future tragedies from occurring.
The five-person jury deliberated for just over an hour and suggested…
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During the hot days that September provided, about 30 people spent their time digging potatoes, pulling carrots, onions, beets and garlic, and picking cucumbers and peas. Only the corn remained untouched.
"We leave the corn for the deer, always, out of respect for our intrusion," said Harley Bastien. "It's their home down here. It's part of the harmony and balance we…
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The Native Brotherhood Society held a two-day workshop on the reintegration of the Aboriginal offender into society on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at the Drumheller Institution in southern Alberta. The workshops were facilitated by a number of guests attending from Alberta's Aboriginal community agencies, and agencies in Saskatchewan and Ontario.
The workshops were initiated for…
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The blame for the suicide of a Stoney Nation youth in 1998 falls squarely on inept and dishonest band leadership that gutted programs that could have helped him, said a judge who directed an inquiry into the death.
Sherman Laron Labelle was 17 when he hanged himself on the Morley reserve May 21,1998.
Judge John Reilly of the Alberta provincial court spared no…
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For the past six-and-a-half years, it seemed I had shared an apartment with some unexpected guests. As luck would have it, the rental Gods had seen fit to bless me with a rather large two storey, two bedroom apartment located on a lovely street in Toronto. What I don't remember seeing in the lease involved some unforeseen boarders living in the second floor room that doubled for…
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Dear Editor:
RE: Clarification - GCT 2 Recruitment Testing
I wish to apologize for some incorrect information that was given to you by corrections staff over the course of some interviews at Drumheller Institution. The misinformation, through no fault of the interview participants, was the result of some incorrect advice and direction given to them regarding the…
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Dear Editor:
RE: Treaty 8, 1899 and 1900
In the August 1999 Windspeaker article titled, Treaty 8 signatory ignored there is an error in the name of the Treaty 8, 1900 Yellowknives chief. The Treaty 8, 1900 for the Yellowknives Band was signed by Chief Henry Snuff. (You are correct in stating Akaicho was a chief of the Yellowknives, but he was chief in the 1820s.)…
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The recent confrontations over Mi'kmaq fishing in the East and Native logging in British Columbia have shown just how strong the prejudices against our people run among the immigrants to our territories who call themselves Canadians. People show their true nature in times like these, and right now it seems that the heart of whiteness is a very cold and hard place. When it comes…
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If what Native leaders in the Maritimes say is true, and a lot of the claims don't seem even a bit outlandish, then there's something interesting at work behind the astonishing amount of media fuss and outcry over Native fishing in the region.
Fact One: Native people weren't expecting such a decisive victory in the Marshall case. A couple of hundred years of frustration…
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At almost the same moment that Grand Chief Phil Fontaine issued a statement at a press conference in the Yukon calling for a "contextual review" of the way the RCMP deals with Aboriginal people, an Assembly of First Nations staff member was echoing that call in Alberta.
Fontaine attended the inquiry into the death of Harley Clayton Timmers in Whitehorse. Timmers was shot…
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An uneasy calm has settled over the New Brunswick reserve where an incident that has been described by some observers as a race riot pitted Native people against non-Native people and resulted in police laying charges against a number of area residents.
Non-Native fishermen staged a protest in the waters just off the Burnt Church wharf on Oct. 3. They were angry that…
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Ray Cardinal, the correctional supervisor at the Pê Sâkâstêw Centre at Hobbema, Alta. shared some of his experience to illustrate the opportunities, benefits and requirements of employment in the correctional field.
"Corrections is very social-work oriented," he said.
"I can only relate to my own experience: a desire to work in a good environment and an opportunity…