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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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Alberta Venture magazine has named Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA) publisher Bert Crowfoot to its list of the top 100 entrepreneurs who helped to build the province. The magazine published the list to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alberta.
Windspeaker is part of the publishing arm of AMMSA, which also includes Alberta Sweetgrass,…
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A treaty right fell in the forests of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on July 20 and it made considerable noise.
Two separate cases involving the assertion of the Mi'kmaq treaty right to log on Crown land were rolled into one Supreme Court of Canada decision. In the Marshall case, 35 Mi'kmaq loggers were charged after they cut timber on Crown land in Nova Scotia. In the…
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A treaty right fell in the forests of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on July 20 and it made considerable noise.
Two separate cases involving the assertion of the Mi'kmaq treaty right to log on Crown land were rolled into one Supreme Court of Canada decision. In the Marshall case, 35 Mi'kmaq loggers were charged after they cut timber on Crown land in Nova Scotia. In the…
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It was a most welcome, if unanticipated surprise.
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) Chief Executive Officer, Jean LaRose, arrived at his sixth-floor Portage Ave. office in downtown Winnipeg on Aug. 31 expecting to hear from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that a temporary license renewal for the network had been ordered.…
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It was a most welcome, if unanticipated surprise.
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) Chief Executive Officer, Jean LaRose, arrived at his sixth-floor Portage Ave. office in downtown Winnipeg on Aug. 31 expecting to hear from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that a temporary license renewal for the network had been ordered.…
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The Metis National Council (MNC) and the former lieutenant governor of Manitoba are going to court.
The MNC is suing Yvon Dumont for $47,000. The sum represents monies paid to Dumont while he was governor of the national council.
Dumont is the former president of the MNC (1988-1993), and the former president of the Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF), serving from 1984…
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The Metis National Council (MNC) and the former lieutenant governor of Manitoba are going to court.
The MNC is suing Yvon Dumont for $47,000. The sum represents monies paid to Dumont while he was governor of the national council.
Dumont is the former president of the MNC (1988-1993), and the former president of the Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF), serving from 1984…
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Alberta chiefs of treaties six, seven and eight took issue with the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) at a recent special assembly where they passed a resolution calling for the federal government to reduce funding to the women's organization.
The resolution supports legal action against NWAC. The chiefs want the organization to prove it has the mandate and…
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Alberta chiefs of treaties six, seven and eight took issue with the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) at a recent special assembly where they passed a resolution calling for the federal government to reduce funding to the women's organization.
The resolution supports legal action against NWAC. The chiefs want the organization to prove it has the mandate and…
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It only took a couple of days for Danielle Boudreau and Bekkie Fugate to find Teri-lynn House once they started looking in early August.
House had been reported missing to the RCMP detachment in Devon, a small community just outside Edmonton, more than a month previously. Her mother, Melanie House, was concerned that her daughter, who has been fighting an addiction, had…
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It only took a couple of days for Danielle Boudreau and Bekkie Fugate to find Teri-lynn House once they started looking in early August.
House had been reported missing to the RCMP detachment in Devon, a small community just outside Edmonton, more than a month previously. Her mother, Melanie House, was concerned that her daughter, who has been fighting an addiction, had…
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A leaked memo appears to reveal that bureaucrats at the highest level of authority in the federal government are issuing orders to keep spending on Aboriginal matters as low as possible, despite the recent promises made by politicians "to close the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians."
And, in one case, officials in the department of Indian and Northern…
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A leaked memo appears to reveal that bureaucrats at the highest level of authority in the federal government are issuing orders to keep spending on Aboriginal matters as low as possible, despite the recent promises made by politicians "to close the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians."
And, in one case, officials in the department of Indian and Northern…
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National Chief Phil Fontaine called a press conference on Aug. 4 to announce the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) would launch a class action lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of residential school survivors.
The statement of claim was filed with the Ontario and Alberta courts the next day.
AFN sources say the announcement came just days after a letter…
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National Chief Phil Fontaine called a press conference on Aug. 4 to announce the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) would launch a class action lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of residential school survivors.
The statement of claim was filed with the Ontario and Alberta courts the next day.
AFN sources say the announcement came just days after a letter…