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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.
A contract awarded by the federal government to the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) to develop a verification strategy for Métis identification systems has been pulled.
“With all the controversy and push back from all the five (provincial Métis associations) and the Métis National Council, the contract is no longer going to go through,” said Audrey Poitras, president of the Métis…
Former residential school students who are incarcerated or homeless are receiving extra attention as the deadline looms for compensation as set out by the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.
“We’re assuming the deadline is fixed. We have no influence on that,” said Dr. Akivah Starkman, executive director, Indian Residential School Adjudication.
Starkman’s team is in…
Taseko Mines Ltd. will again attempt to gain federal approval for its $800 million Prosperity mine. Last November, Taseko was told that the mine near Williams Lake could not proceed because the copper and gold mine would make nearby Fish Lake a tailings dump. Area First Nations fought the company hard on the development. This time the company is prepared to spend $1.1 billion to make the mine…
THE THUNDER BAY POLICE SERVICE
held a news conference on Feb. 23 to provide an update on the case of missing 15-year-old Jordan Wabasse who was last seen exiting a city bus near Mary Street and Holt Place around 10 p.m. on Feb. 7. Thunder Bay Police had found a cap in the Kaministiquia River on Feb. 15. Service Insp. Andy Hay said it was sent to a Sault Ste. Marie lab…
Canada’s three most western provinces are taking exception to cigarettes crossing their borders and bearing only the federal stamp for taxes paid.
Rainbow Tobacco Company’s latest shipment of cigarettes, a gift to a woman in the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, was the latest tobacco seized by a provincial financial department.
“I’m getting frustrated,” said Rob Dickson…
Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Inez: Trustworthiness. It’s hard to come by these days, but I’ve been blessed with some good solid friends.
W: What is it that really makes you mad?
I.J.: Ignorance and racism. It makes my blood boil.
W: When are you at your happiest?
I.J.: It’s a toss up: Either when I’m getting a tickle attack from my…
Hundreds of people battled heavy rain to gather in solidarity and remember the missing and murdered women of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The 20th Annual Women’s Memorial March was held Feb. 14.
“We are here because we are failing to protect women from the degradation of poverty and systemic exploitation, abuse and violence,” said organizer Marlene George in a statement before the…
THE TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL REPORTS
that two reserves in New Brunswick are negotiating land claims that will result in the largest settlements ever paid out to First Nations in Atlantic Canada. Compensation could be in the tens of millions for both Tobique First Nation and Metepenagiag First Nation. Tobique is negotiating a claim for about 3,300 acres of land surrendered in…
The Yinka Dene Alliance has rejected the financial incentives offered by Enbridge, which wants to cut through their lands to build its $5.5 billion Northern Gateway project. With about a quarter of the lands necessary to accommodate the proposed right-of-way of the project, the rejection of the plan by the alliance is pretty significant. That is if it’s really a rejection, and not part of the…
Can a person come back from a bad choice, like the lack of judgment Chief Guy Lonechild demonstrated when he chose to drive while under the influence in 2009, before he was elected to lead the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations? Well, some have, but will he?
Efforts are underway to remove Lonechild from the power he holds at the FSIN on the basis of his legal issues, but the push…
Mentor and activist led the way on ideas of justice and equality
“A needle points the way, pokes and prods and lets the air out of overstuffed people and things … binding together fabrics and materials of varied textures and sources.”
In a tribute to his colleague and friend Patricia Monture, Terry Wotherspoon, head of the department of Sociology at the…
Documentary filmmaker Loretta Todd (Today is a Good Day, Forgotten Warriors) came up with an idea five years ago to do something great that would serve and promote the Cree language to those living in the urban setting, more specifically, to the Cree kids living off reserve in the city of Vancouver.
What grew out of this is the children’s television series- Tansi! Nehiyawetan, that is…
Though he’s small in stature, Ottawa native Mitch Lamoureux is about to earn one of the biggest honours around. He’s becoming a Hall of Famer.
Lamoureux, whose mother is Ojibway, will be inducted into the American Hockey League’s Hall of Fame. Induction ceremonies will be held Jan. 31 in Hershey, Pa.
The ceremony will be held in conjunction with the AHL’s all-star game.
“I’m…
Player dies in crash
An Aboriginal Junior A hockey player died in a car crash on the Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation during his Christmas break. Myles Cameron, a defenceman with the Yorkton Terriers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, died on Dec. 23. He was 20. Cameron was a passenger in a vehicle involved in a rollover. He was the only one of five people in the…
Lillian Jones was sure that she had dodged a bullet when her second child Samantha was born at a healthy 7 lbs, 6 oz. and continued to eat and grow well. But at six months old Samantha caught a cold. She didn’t have just the usual symptoms of a stuffy, runny nose, crankiness and loss of appetite. Samantha also developed tremours.
Jones, concerned that something was seriously wrong, took…