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A military panel ruled a peacekeeper from CFB Petawawa, a Canadian Native soldier accused of torturing and murdering a Somali teenager, is not fit to stand trial.
Psychiatrists testified Master Corporal Clayton Matchee suffered severe brain damage from a suicide attempt and would not understand the proceedings against him. Matchee, 28, was found hanging in his bunker after…
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The federal government is backing away from active participation in the environmental regime, said Susanne Hilton of the Great Whale Environmental Assessment Office. This leaves Quebec and the Grand Council of the Crees in a standoff situation over the future of the $13 billion hydroelectric Great Whale project in Northern Quebec.
Ottawa has announced its intention to…
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Missing documentation, unrecorded expenditures, unsupported transfers from program to program, payments made in excess of actual expense reports - the list of irregularities in the financial and accounting practices of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan goes on and on.
An audit of the Metis Nation's books, undertaken by chartered accountants Deloitte and Touche, was released…
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Metis Nation of Saskatchewan president Gerald Morin said his organization chose to deal with other issues and postponed acting on recommendations from contributors to get the MNS financial house in order.
The result, according to a Deloitte and Touche audit, is $700,000 in errors and mistakes in accounting over the last two-year period and a possible deficit of unknown…
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Grand Chief Phil Fontaine expects he'll have a fight on his hands to see Native self-government replace Indian Affairs in Manitoba, and his first opponent may be Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi.
The dust had little time to settle in The Pas, where the Opaskwayak Cree Nation hosted the Manitoba chiefs in ground-breaking talks on self-government April 19…
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Like the mythical Phoenix, Winalta has survived the flames and risen from the ashes, back in business, and bigger and better than ever.
Winalta, a leading builder of manufactured homes in Western Canada, suffered a major setback in May 2001 when it's manufacturing facility on the Enoch reserve just west of Edmonton was destroyed by fire, shutting down the company's…
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Syncrude and Cameco are two companies with a lot in common. Both are resource-based businesses--Syncrude works in the petroleum sector, and Cameco in the mining sector. Both operate in northern communities-Syncrude based out of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, and Cameco with mining operations across northern Saskatchewan. And both companies have had their Aboriginal relations…
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Scotiabank has a long history of supporting the Aboriginal community, through sponsoring scholarships, events and programs, and supporting Aboriginal business initiatives. Now Scotiabank hopes to measure, and build on, their successes in developing good Aboriginal relations through membership in the Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program.
"We are the only…
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More and more Canadian businesses are welcoming an opportunity to have their commitment to respectful Aboriginal relations measured and recognized through their involvement in the Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program.
The PAR program, now in its second year of operation, offers participating businesses a framework for setting objectives relating to Aboriginal…
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People around the world working to preserve and promote Indigenous languages now have a new tool at their disposal, thanks to the launch of the First Voices Aboriginal Languages Resource.
First Voices is a project of the First Peoples' Heritage, Language & Culture Council, a B.C.-based Aboriginal organization that has been working to support Aboriginal language…
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A culturally-sensitive legal education program is changing the way First Nations youth perceive the Canadian justice system.
For more than 10 years, the Northern Native Public Legal Education program run by the Law Courts Education Society of British Columbia has been trying to build trust.
The program includes support training for teachers, community workshops and…
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Aboriginal chef and teacher Ben Genaille is gearing up to dazzle his first group of international guest with his unique blend of traditional First Nations and Western cuisine.
Prompted by an article in last June's Raven's Eye news publication (a sister paper to Windspeaker), the New World Renaissance Hotel in Kowloon, Hong Kong contacted Genaille and extended an…
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Declaring the time for studies over and identifying a looming crisis, John Kim Bell, president and founder of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation brought 200 corporate, government and Aboriginal leaders together in Calgary on Feb. 6 to discuss ways of increasing Aboriginal employment.
Citing demographic trends including an aging mainstream population and 920,…
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Keith Duggan says that in his three decades of policing in Edmonton he has watched the Aboriginal population challenge the problems found in their communities, and more effectively create positive change than any other group in the city.
Superintendent Duggan of the Edmonton Police Service participated in the day-long Aboriginal Homelessness Gathering on Feb. 19. Of the…
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The National Lacrosse League will bring its top players to Connecticut this spring for an all-star game at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville on April 21. The contest will be staged one week after the league championship final.
The Mohegan Sun Arena is owned by the Mohegan Tribe, and is part of the Mohegan Sun casino complex. The facility has become popular for gaming…