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The young female police officer doesn't get it.
"I graduated from OPC (Ontario Police College) right beside those OPP officers," she says.
"I have the exact same training, I do the exact same job, why can I not have the exact same supplies and detachment and equipment that will keep me safe and the community safe?"
Constable Robin Bannon is with the Mishkeegogamang First Nation…
Craig Benson's involvement with child welfare didn't end when he became an adult, and now that his children are in care he plans to work hard to provide for them, change his life, and stay hopeful he will get them back.
For 31 year-old Benson, growing up as a permanent ward of the government meant rarely seeing his home, Alexis First Nation.
He grew up in foster homes and in youth care…
First Nations Child and Family service agencies will begin to receive an initial $15 million from an agreement with the Department of Indian Affairs set to be released this month.
The agreement was signed last April with the federal, provincial governments and First Nation leaders in Alberta. The funding is supposed to help First Nation Child and Family deliver their newly adopted Alberta…
On Nov. 28, 2007 the members of Saskatchewan's Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) suffered a great loss when former chief James Miles Venne passed away.
Venne was born at Hall Lake, Sask., just west of La Ronge, on April 14, 1918. His father, Roderick, died when Venne was still a young child, and his mother, Annie, did all she could to care for her children on her own. Then the opportunity…
The latest Canadian census report says Aboriginal people are the youngest and fastest growing population in Canada and many organizations believe that Aboriginal people may be the answer to the skill shortage in the trades and particularly in construction.
"We knew the skill shortage was coming and now it's here. It's such an advantage, this skill shortage, for Aboriginal people wanting a…
The Lloydminster Native Friendshop Centre (LNFC) extended an open invitation to the Lloydminster community to attend five cross cultural workshops held from October 2007 to January 2008.
Doris Lewis, LNFC community and cultural resource worker, explained that "the goal of the workshops was to help close cultural gaps and foster a powerful exchange of traditional knowledge and understanding…
Improvements can now be made to public health services on reserves thanks to an investment of $3.7 million from the Government of Canada. This announcement came from Tony Clement, minister of health and minister for the federal economic development initiative for Northern Ontario on Jan. 10. The Ontario First Nations Public Health Initiative is a three-year project to ensure that on-reserve…
On the verge of releasing both a debut single and airing a six-part television series next month; one of Canada's newest rising stars in the country music scene is proving that success comes in spades for those who want it badly enough.
Crystal Shawanda, a 27-year-old Ojibway woman from the Wikwemikong reserve on Manitoulin Island, in northern Ontario, is living the life she's always hoped…
The Godfather, Scarface, Goodfellas. Legendary films like these depict an often sensationalized portrayal of the exciting and powerful lives of mobsters, gangsters and kingpins. But for former gang member, Rob Papin, thug-life was anything but glamorous.
"You see people getting stabbed and junkies shooting up. I thought that's what being Aboriginal was about," Papin said, during a telephone…
In an effort to support the growing number of Aboriginal students in six post-secondary institutions, $2.4 million will be dispersed from the Province for gathering places.
"We've committed $15 million to help all of our institutions either create gathering places or enhance the ones they have, which will encourage more Aboriginal people to enroll in post-secondary education, and help them…
In an effort to support the growing number of Aboriginal students in six post-secondary institutions, $2.4 million will be dispersed from the Province for gathering places.
"We've committed $15 million to help all of our institutions either create gathering places or enhance the ones they have, which will encourage more Aboriginal people to enroll in post-secondary education, and help them…
Accusations of "bias" and "wrongdoing" have been thrown at the B.C. civic advisory board and the federal government after the funding proposal from an Aboriginal non-profit organization, aimed to help homeless women and their children, was rejected.
While the Aboriginal Mother's Centre (AMC) in east Vancouver hasn't shut its doors quite yet, Penny Irons, the program's director, thinks it's…
The following article is the second in a series of columns by the Canadian Cancer Society that will be running in Windspeaker, providing information on healthy living from an Aboriginal perspective.
Lung cancer is the main cause of cancer death for both men and women in Ontario and the risk of getting lung cancer is higher when you smoke commercial tobacco.
"Commercial…
Artist-Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk
Album-OmEigwessi Reel Métis
A tribute to Walter Flett
Song-Medicine Fiddle
Label- Independent
Producer-Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk
These days, Métis fiddlers are few and far between since many of the old masters have left us for the spirit world.
But thanks to young musicians like Toronto's Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk, old favourites are…
Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Daniele Behn: Loyalty. There are so many other good qualities I could say, but my true friends are the ones who will stand by me through the ups and downs of life.
W: What is it that really makes you mad?
D.B.: Myself. No person or situation can make me mad. It's only my reaction to situations the way I choose to…