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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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Two hundred Aboriginal job-seekers crammed into Metro Hall in downtown Toronto on April 8 hoping to make a connection with one of the 20 employers at the Netting Stars: Aboriginal Career Fair that was organized by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business and Miziwe Biik: Aboriginal Employment and Training.
There were an additional 10 booths supplied by various…
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Hundreds of delegates and visitors attended the Opportunities in Science and Technology for Aboriginal People Conference held in Winnipeg last month to get a glimpse into the employment future for Canada's First Peoples.
The two-day event featured delegates from, and profiles of, some of the most innovative and successful Aboriginal companies and organizations in the…
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Arctic Beverages, an Aboriginal-owned bottler of Pepsi-Cola products, has scored a major coup by winning the Best Canadian Bottler Award for 1999 and runner-up as the best North American bottler.
"We were thrilled, of course," said Arctic Beverages general manager Sean Post. "It says a lot about our people, employees and ownership to think that we are the best in the…
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It was certainly a season of mixed emotions for Freeman Bucktooth.
After 20 years of coaching, he finally made it to the pinnacle of his sport as an associate coach with the Syracuse Smash. He may have been one of three coaches on the staff but, for the most part, he ran the bench because the two other associates, Steve Scaramuzzino and Pat Donahue, were also players with…
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The Washington Redskins football club could be stripped of its trademark registration by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A group of seven prominent Native Americans has been fighting since 1992 to convince the National Football League team to change its name. The U.S. Patent Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board handed down its 145-page decision on…
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The long-term success of any colonial adventure requires the destruction of Indigenous languages. The counter-attacks launched by Indigenous peoples throughout the world in defence of the integrity of their cultures always focuses upon the nurturing of such Indigenous languages. Educational programs offer encouragement to those who fear that their language might be terminally…
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The seventh annual Aboriginal Awareness Week at the University of Toronto that ran from March 22 to 26 was billed as Making Our Sound: A Celebration of First Nations Voices.
The five-day event, hosted by the university's First Nations House, featured writers Lee Maracle, Daniel David Moses, and Drew Hayden Taylor, as well as magazine publisher and actor Gary Farmer,…
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Health Canada's 1999 budget has allocated $55 million in new funding over three years to pay for the Canadian Diabetes Prevention and Control Strategy. The money is targeted to fight "one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in Canada today," and education will form a key component of the strategy, a government press release states.
When and where the money will be…
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Four community-based health programs focused on AIDS/HIV education and health promotion received a boost in the arm with the announcement by Health Minister Allan Rock that additional funding would be allocated to improve their ability to expand community education.
The Manitoba Aboriginal Aids Task Force is one of the programs selected, and will receive an additional $50…
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It's 11 a.m. and Angie, not her real name, sits in a corner of a downtown Winnipeg coffee shop appearing no different than the dozen young Aboriginal teens seated around her - alert, healthy looking and bursting with potential
But Angie is different.
Diagnosed as HIV positive six months ago while getting blood tests in hospital for a diabetes-related problem, the…
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"At one point in my life I was given a bus ticket and told to leave my community until I changed," said Moccasin Joe. "One of the most memorable experiences in my career was when I went back and performed for the high school there."
Moccasin Joe, a comedian from the Fort William First Nation band in Thunder Bay, Ont., used to have a problem with alcohol, but he's cleaned…
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These days, talk of sand bags, emergency phone numbers, food rations and keeping a close ear to the radio are hot topics of conversation in Mission, B.C, and other communities close to the Fraser River.
"The flood potential for the Fraser River is the highest it's been in 25 years, so the water levels are being monitored," said Darlene Snyder, media and communications…
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Dear Editor:
The Montreal Gazette reported on April 10 that a U.N. Human Rights committee has ruled that "Canada's treatment of Aboriginals is in violation of international law," and that the condition of Indians in Canada is the "most pressing human rights issue facing Canadians."
The U.N. statement is not specific enough. Canada is actually in violation of the…
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Federal officials in Canada and the United States continue to resist a varied and growing wave of support for a review of the Leonard Peltier case.
On April 16, Amnesty International called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of Peltier, saying he is a "political prisoner whose avenues for legal redress have long been exhausted."
On Feb. 11, the European…
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April 16 was an historic day for the Sechelt Indian Band as hundreds of onlookers crowded the Sechelt's traditional longhouse to watch the signing of the first agreement-in-principal (AIP) reached through the BC Treaty Commission process.
The AIP is step five in the six-step B.C. treaty process and Premier Glen Clark called the agreement a sign of hope for other…