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Robert Lafontaine is doing a job he enjoys. Lafontaine works as a tenant councilor for the Gabriel Housing Corporation in Regina.
He got the job through the Metis Housing Administration Program, which ended on June 6 when Lafontaine and nine other students graduated.
Lafontaine first heard about the 16-month program through the Yorkton Parkland Native Outreach…
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Robert Lafontaine is doing a job he enjoys. Lafontaine works as a tenant councilor for the Gabriel Housing Corporation in Regina.
He got the job through the Metis Housing Administration Program, which ended on June 6 when Lafontaine and nine other students graduated.
Lafontaine first heard about the 16-month program through the Yorkton Parkland Native Outreach…
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It was a long, hard haul. Some students believed that they shouldn't have been there, that they hadn't earned the right to attend law school.
But their determination proved otherwise - to themselves and others. And the first graduating class of the University of Alberta's Indigenous Law Program gathered June 12 to congratulate each other on completing this sometimes…
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It was a long, hard haul. Some students believed that they shouldn't have been there, that they hadn't earned the right to attend law school.
But their determination proved otherwise - to themselves and others. And the first graduating class of the University of Alberta's Indigenous Law Program gathered June 12 to congratulate each other on completing this sometimes…
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Some Mi'kmaq law graduates from Dalhousie University in Halifax say they want to become lawyers. But they can't find articling positions.
After law school, graduates must article - do a work placement that teaches legal skills - at a law firm for 12 months. Once they've finished articling and are called to the bar they can work as lawyers.
Cathy Benton, who…
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Some Mi'kmaq law graduates from Dalhousie University in Halifax say they want to become lawyers. But they can't find articling positions.
After law school, graduates must article - do a work placement that teaches legal skills - at a law firm for 12 months. Once they've finished articling and are called to the bar they can work as lawyers.
Cathy Benton, who…
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Graduating ceremonies for students from an Alberta Native studies program was truly a shared experience during which eagle feathers and sweetgrass braids were presented and memories made.
"It was very moving, hearing from each graduate," said student Cindy Dunnigan, at the University of Alberta School of Native Studies June 6 convocation. "And I felt very privileged to…
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Graduating ceremonies for students from an Alberta Native studies program was truly a shared experience during which eagle feathers and sweetgrass braids were presented and memories made.
"It was very moving, hearing from each graduate," said student Cindy Dunnigan, at the University of Alberta School of Native Studies June 6 convocation. "And I felt very privileged to…
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Shuswap Native Percy Casper accepted his Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University wearing traditional warrior garb. He says he's got the best of both worlds now.
Casper joined 14 other graduates to celebrate with family, friends and dignitaries the first convocation of the Secwepeme Cultural Education Society and Simon Fraser University partnership program.…
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Shuswap Native Percy Casper accepted his Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University wearing traditional warrior garb. He says he's got the best of both worlds now.
Casper joined 14 other graduates to celebrate with family, friends and dignitaries the first convocation of the Secwepeme Cultural Education Society and Simon Fraser University partnership program.…
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There is no Cree word for "lawyer."
But the fate of the Beaver Lake First Nation band members lies in the hands of legal advisers and the courts.
Since the reserve's band elections four months ago, Beaver Lake First Nation has been turned upside down. The outcome of the February 8 election was a new chief and council, replacing chief Al Lameman, who had been in…
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There is no Cree word for "lawyer."
But the fate of the Beaver Lake First Nation band members lies in the hands of legal advisers and the courts.
Since the reserve's band elections four months ago, Beaver Lake First Nation has been turned upside down. The outcome of the February 8 election was a new chief and council, replacing chief Al Lameman, who had been in…
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Aboriginal AIDS prevention programs are suffering funding cuts just as the communities they target have been judged at highest risk in the nation for epidemics of the deadly disease.
A spokesperson for the Feather of Hope Aboriginal AIDS Prevention Society in Edmonton charges federal budget cuts with curtailing prevention programs among Aboriginal communities in Alberta…
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Aboriginal AIDS prevention programs are suffering funding cuts just as the communities they target have been judged at highest risk in the nation for epidemics of the deadly disease.
A spokesperson for the Feather of Hope Aboriginal AIDS Prevention Society in Edmonton charges federal budget cuts with curtailing prevention programs among Aboriginal communities in Alberta…
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He didn't do it to receive recognition. But on June 12, at a reception to honor the Indigenous Law Program's first graduating class, Ray Yellowknee was presented with the Aboriginal Justice Award.
The award, established by the Indigenous law program as well as the law faculty, was created in honor of the graduating class. Yellowknee was awarded it for all the effort he…