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The apparent suicides of 39 young people in the last 18 months has employees at the Mission Indian Friendship Centre pressing the government help to set up a healing centre.
But a major stumbling block is the difference between what officials consider a suicide and what the friendship centre calls a suicide, said Raymond Young, the centre's executive director.
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The apparent suicides of 39 young people in the last 18 months has employees at the Mission Indian Friendship Centre pressing the government help to set up a healing centre.
But a major stumbling block is the difference between what officials consider a suicide and what the friendship centre calls a suicide, said Raymond Young, the centre's executive director.
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Alfred Gerard Eli, 43, a respected and influential force in Toronto's Aboriginal community, died peacefully at his home on Jan. 10 from complications due to AIDS. He was surrounded by friends and family.
Eli is remembered by those close to him as a kind man with an easy-going nature and a strong sense of humor, who had tremendous will and energy for his work, and who was…
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Alfred Gerard Eli, 43, a respected and influential force in Toronto's Aboriginal community, died peacefully at his home on Jan. 10 from complications due to AIDS. He was surrounded by friends and family.
Eli is remembered by those close to him as a kind man with an easy-going nature and a strong sense of humor, who had tremendous will and energy for his work, and who was…
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Nearly 130 Aboriginal downtown eastside Vancouver residents, who are HIV-positive or have AIDS must now look outside of their community for specialized health care and social services.
The Vancouver Native Health Society's HIV/AIDS Home Health Care program closed its doors Jan. 13 due to lack of government funding, according to the society's executive director, Lou…
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Nearly 130 Aboriginal downtown eastside Vancouver residents, who are HIV-positive or have AIDS must now look outside of their community for specialized health care and social services.
The Vancouver Native Health Society's HIV/AIDS Home Health Care program closed its doors Jan. 13 due to lack of government funding, according to the society's executive director, Lou…
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A Saskatoon man has been arrested in connection with the murders of three Saskatchewan women whose skeletal remains were found in a farmer's field just outside of Saskatoon.
The Jan. 19 arrest came after an intense four-month investigation involving RCMP and city police, a forensic anthropologist and more than 3,000 "tips".
The trail leading to the arrest began…
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A Saskatoon man has been arrested in connection with the murders of three Saskatchewan women whose skeletal remains were found in a farmer's field just outside of Saskatoon.
The Jan. 19 arrest came after an intense four-month investigation involving RCMP and city police, a forensic anthropologist and more than 3,000 "tips".
The trail leading to the arrest began…
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To stop West Coast salmon from going the way of East Coast cod, the B.C. government pulled the plug on the giant Kemano hydro project in northwestern B.C.
The move delighted environmentalists and area Natives but left business groups and affected workers spitting mad.
Premier Mike Harcourt killed Alcan's $1.3 billion Kemano Completion Project
Jan. 24, citing…
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To stop West Coast salmon from going the way of East Coast cod, the B.C. government pulled the plug on the giant Kemano hydro project in northwestern B.C.
The move delighted environmentalists and area Natives but left business groups and affected workers spitting mad.
Premier Mike Harcourt killed Alcan's $1.3 billion Kemano Completion Project
Jan. 24, citing…
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The federal minister for Indian Affairs has bucked any notion of bargaining with demonstrators occupying a Revenue Canada building in downtown Toronto.
But Ron Irwin did say the government should conduct a wide-ranging review of the system for taxing Native people. Such a review is a long process that could become tangled up in treaty negotiations, but it is becoming…
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The federal minister for Indian Affairs has bucked any notion of bargaining with demonstrators occupying a Revenue Canada building in downtown Toronto.
But Ron Irwin did say the government should conduct a wide-ranging review of the system for taxing Native people. Such a review is a long process that could become tangled up in treaty negotiations, but it is becoming…
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Ethel Blondin-Andrew, federal secretary of the state for training and youth, the only Aboriginal member of the Liberal cabinet, claims she was misquoted by Broadcast News in a recent wire story. The Western Arctic Member of Parliament was responding to a story reporting on her comments at a Calgary Native health conference at the end of November.
"I didn't say that," said…
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Ethel Blondin-Andrew, federal secretary of the state for training and youth, the only Aboriginal member of the Liberal cabinet, claims she was misquoted by Broadcast News in a recent wire story. The Western Arctic Member of Parliament was responding to a story reporting on her comments at a Calgary Native health conference at the end of November.
"I didn't say that," said…
1994 - Year In Review
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JANUARY
NAFTA sparks Mexico clashes
Indigenous peoples in and around San Christobal de las Casas in southern Mexico seized control of the resort city and several neighboring towns on Jan. 1, sparking heavy clashes with government troops and police. Most of the guerrillas are Tzotzil or Tzeltal Indians who banded together as the Zapatista…