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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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Correctional Services Canada has got a blitz on to hire 1,000 correctional officers across Canada over the next three years. About 300 of these positions will be located in the Western provinces.
Warden Tim Fullerton at Drumheller Institution in Drumheller, Alta., says there are two ways to enter their employ - as a correctional officer or as a clerk. He says they look…
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The Métis Nation of Alberta Association announced Aug. 19 that it has signed a five-year agreement with Human Resources Development Canada to implement an urban Aboriginal employment strategy that a senior MNA official characterized as "unlike any other in Canada."
It will deliver a wide range of labor market programs and services to help off-settlement Métis, especially…
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This year marks the seventh year the Dreamcatcher youth conference will be held at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton. This year's theme is "Dancing our Four Directions: All My Relations." The conference, which is hosted by the college's Child and Youth Care Program, will be held from Oct. 15 to 17.
"We are looking at having four youth representing the four…
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No child should have to go to school running on empty.
Even if they just have time to grab a chunk of bannock with milk before catching the school bus, or a quick piece of pizza with fruit juice before they strap on the rollerblades and hit the sidewalks.
"For the nursery school set at the Aboriginal Headstart Program in Lloydminster, an early bird breakfast really…
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A two-day symposium in Vancouver will give museum and gallery curators, artists, and the general public a chance to explore the life and works of the late Haida artist Bill Reid.
The Legacy of Bill Reid: A Critical Enquiry will be held on Nov. 13 and 14 at the University of British Columbia's First Nations House of Learning.
Regarded as one of the most important…
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Waneek Horn-Miller will, in all likelihood, fulfill a childhood dream next year.
Horn-Miller is expected to be on the Canadian women's water polo team, which has qualified to compete at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
The Canadians earned their Olympic berth by winning the gold medal at the recent Pan American Games in Winnipeg.
Women's water…
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The Skydome in Toronto will be the scene of the first Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards presented by Casino Rama on Dec. 2 to 5. The event will run in conjunction with the 6th annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival and Powwow. The awards will showcase and acknowledge the diverse talents of Canadian Aboriginal musicians.
"The casino hopes to provide professional opportunities…
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On Oct. 1, Remstar Distribution of Canada will present the film Grey Owl. The movie that cost $30 million to make will be released in theatres across Canada.
"I think that the movie has a wonderful environmental message," said Remstar Distribution's executive director, Andrew Austin. "It is a great movie with great actors, a great cast and a director that delivers a…
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a global health problem, not something that any First Nation or tribal council can or should have to tackle alone, especially with the limited health care funding available today.
Pooling resources to deliver HIV/AIDS specific health services became the goal of the Battleford Tribal Council Health Services in 1999. A practical, hands-on outreach…
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You don't hear as much about it as AIDS or cancer these days, but tuberculosis is still a major problem among Aboriginal people across Canada. Tuberculosis occurs 18 times as often in Aboriginal people as in Canadian-born, non-Aboriginal people, a 1999 Medical Services Branch (MSB) report says.
Ann Raftery, the Tuberculosis Elimination Program Co-ordinator for Medical…
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For close to a year, the dreams and visions lingered, but the faith-keeper had no idea what they meant or what he was to do.
Finally, the meaning came. Through his visions, Joe Jacobs, 51, of Kahnawake, Que. was told that he had a message to bring to his people - a process now well underway although only the surface of the task has been scratched.
The message is…
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On Sept. 6 about 50 members of the Aboriginal community marched in the annual Labour Day parade through the streets of downtown Toronto to raise awareness about the ongoing issues surrounding the Sept. 6, 1995 shooting of protester Dudley George. While he was demonstrating at Ipperwash Provincial Park, George was shot by Acting Sgt. Kenneth Deane, a member of the Ontario…
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So, what's going on with the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations? One senior staffer has been chopped - will there be more? A call to their office on an unrelated matter brought the response, "Come back in three months when the restructuring is complete."
The restructuring of the confederacy apparently begins with Ron Lameman, the former executive director who got the…
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A national coalition of First Nation's activists demanding greater accountability from chiefs and councils across Canada say they have finally received assurances from National Chief Phil Fontaine that he will present the group's concerns at a meeting of Canada's 600-plus chiefs slated for later this fall.
"It really surprised me to hear him [Fontaine] finally admit that…
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Papaschase band descendants who want to pursue recognition by the federal government and who may be interested in going after compensation for land given up or coerced from them in the last century will want to take a hard look at any group claiming to represent their interests. At least two groups hold themselves out as bone fide in Edmonton.
Audrey V. Gladue identifies…