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"Sexy, light and witty," is the description given to a new mini-series currently being filmed at the Waksauksing- Parry Island First Nation in northern Ontario.
Filming of The Rez started on Sept. 25 on the series inspired by the critically acclaimed Bruce McDonald feature film, Dance Me Outside.
The mini-series continues to look at the lives of the popular…
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"Sexy, light and witty," is the description given to a new mini-series currently being filmed at the Waksauksing- Parry Island First Nation in northern Ontario.
Filming of The Rez started on Sept. 25 on the series inspired by the critically acclaimed Bruce McDonald feature film, Dance Me Outside.
The mini-series continues to look at the lives of the popular…
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With the incidents at Ipperwash and Gustafsen Lake fresh in the minds of everyone, it seems that particular opinions about the treatment of these, all to frequent, Native crises are being voiced more openly; or perhaps more accurately, there is a belief that there is a double standard in relation to these blockades in that Natives get preferential treatment or handled with kid…
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With the incidents at Ipperwash and Gustafsen Lake fresh in the minds of everyone, it seems that particular opinions about the treatment of these, all to frequent, Native crises are being voiced more openly; or perhaps more accurately, there is a belief that there is a double standard in relation to these blockades in that Natives get preferential treatment or handled with kid…
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Don Kelly is one of Canada's hottest young comedians, but he's not tripping over bags of money on his way to the stage door just yet.
Kelly, a 32-year-old Ojibwa from Winnipeg, went to Toronto in September to compete in the Yuk Yuk comedy chain's annual search for the best new standup comic in Canada. Going up against dozens of the best comics in the country, Kelly came in…
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Don Kelly is one of Canada's hottest young comedians, but he's not tripping over bags of money on his way to the stage door just yet.
Kelly, a 32-year-old Ojibwa from Winnipeg, went to Toronto in September to compete in the Yuk Yuk comedy chain's annual search for the best new standup comic in Canada. Going up against dozens of the best comics in the country, Kelly came in…
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Guest Column
The issue of fisheries is becoming more and more important, especially with the tremendous depletion of important species in virtually all parts of North America.
Native nations need to take a good, hard look at the marine and lake fisheries issue, along with the related issues of shellfish, sea vegetables, and crustaceans.
Why? Because most…
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Guest Column
The issue of fisheries is becoming more and more important, especially with the tremendous depletion of important species in virtually all parts of North America.
Native nations need to take a good, hard look at the marine and lake fisheries issue, along with the related issues of shellfish, sea vegetables, and crustaceans.
Why? Because most…
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Native nations are pushing back, bumping bellies with the big boys, putting a collective food down and says 'We're just not going to take your garbage anymore.' And all there is to say about this phenomenon is "It's more than about time.'
If you've been paying close attention to Native news makers in Canada you'll notice the swell of protest that is reaching even the most…
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Native nations are pushing back, bumping bellies with the big boys, putting a collective food down and says 'We're just not going to take your garbage anymore.' And all there is to say about this phenomenon is "It's more than about time.'
If you've been paying close attention to Native news makers in Canada you'll notice the swell of protest that is reaching even the most…
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More than 175 Assembly of First Nations chiefs who met near Calgary Sept. 21 and 22 voted to administer a dose of political pressure to ailing relations between the assembly and Health and Welfare Canada.
"We know that the government has not been listening to Native leaders for a long time," Said National Chief Ovide Mercredi at the national emergency chiefs' meeting on…
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More than 175 Assembly of First Nations chiefs who met near Calgary Sept. 21 and 22 voted to administer a dose of political pressure to ailing relations between the assembly and Health and Welfare Canada.
"We know that the government has not been listening to Native leaders for a long time," Said National Chief Ovide Mercredi at the national emergency chiefs' meeting on…
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A Native group from Winnipeg, hoping to raise awareness of the many serious problems facing the country's Aboriginal youth, ended a 10-week walk across Western Canada when they arrived in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, on Sept. 13.
The group, which calls itself the Native Youth Movement and its trek Walk and Talk '95, wants people in positions of responsibility to…
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A Native group from Winnipeg, hoping to raise awareness of the many serious problems facing the country's Aboriginal youth, ended a 10-week walk across Western Canada when they arrived in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, on Sept. 13.
The group, which calls itself the Native Youth Movement and its trek Walk and Talk '95, wants people in positions of responsibility to…
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We won't go.
That's what thousands of Quebec Crees said on Oct. 24 in a vote on whether they agreed to letting the Quebec government appropriate the James Bay Crees and their traditional lands into a sovereign Quebec.
"We are no longer prepared to be treated like cattle in the field," said Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Quebec Crees, at a Montreal press…