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Statistics prove Saskatchewan's Crime Stoppers program, which began in 1987, is working extremely well, says an RCMP official.
It only works because of the direct link between the RCMP, the public and the media, said Sgt. Ben Walsh at an all-chiefs conference in Saskatoon.
He said many crimes, which are solved because of Crime Stoppers, "would probably not be…
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Hi and welcome to the Saskatchewan run.
Windspeaker welcomes all our Saskatchewan readers and we are proud to announce we will be serving Saskatchewan with news, sports and community stories about you - the pride of Saskatchewan - our Native people.
And now you have your very own Border crossing column.
Just recently, Oct. 23-27, I traveled across the border…
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Moving to a new neighborhood in Edmonton's west-end didn't stop Dalona Potts from attending events at the Adrian Hope Youth Center in the northern section of the city. "When my family moved, I knew I'd miss my friends and everything we do here. Nov I just hop on a bus and come over here."
Potts was carving a pumpkin as part of preparations for the Center's Oct. 27…
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Native people have "come a long ways, but there's still a long way to go," says Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper.
In a speech to delegates to the National Aboriginal Communications Society's fourth annual general meeting and seminar in Edmonton, Harper cautioned them to avoid concentrating on the harshness of the summer of 1990.
"Learn from the history that brought it out…
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Fifteen students graduated from the Life Skills Management Program at Edmonton's Grierson Center Oct. 12.
Throughout the seven weeks each individual was encouraged to take that first step, to take a chance and to speak out about what was on their minds. The majority of students weren't sure what to expect or what was expected of them.
For the most part they were…
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Gov.Gen. Ray Hnatyshyn recognized Siksika's coat of arms in a recent ceremony at the Siksika Nation commercial complex.
"This badge will be the first entry in a special first people section, volume one of the public register of flags and badges of Canada. It will be a permanent reminder of the particular relationship between Siksika Nation and Her Majesty the Queen. The…
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Alberta New Democrats are reaching out to Native people to get them more involved in the party.
"We're a Native development party. We want to consult with Natives and listen to the advice they can give us," said party leader Ray Martin.
He said two outreach conferences are being organized between the party and treaty Indians. The first meeting will be held in…
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A 10-fold increase in Native students by the year 2000 is the goal of the University of Alberta's new aboriginal student policy.
It's part of a recently adopted policy developed by the university's Aboriginal Student Council (ASC).
And it's a president Dexter Young, the ASC's immediate past president, hopes other universities across the country will also adopt. The…
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The treatment of Native people in Canada is shabby and unjust, says a former Liberal member of Parliament.
Keith Penner, who chaired a 1983 parliamentary committee on Native self-government, want an end to the withering away of aboriginal rights. He is calling on the federal government to stop "the century old habit of alternating between two ridiculous policies that have…
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Is racism on the rise in this country?
I believe the answer is yes. Just ask retired broadcaster Keigh Rutherford who was beaten and partially blinded in one eye when two neo-Nazi skinheads attacked him outside his home near Edmonton because of a broadcast he id in 1960 on alleged Nazi war criminals.
It's been 30 years since his broadcast and he's attacked by young…
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Prime Minister Brian Mulroney brushed aside concerns about Canada's international image during the summer of Native discontent.
Canada's international reputation was just fine, he said: the government's abdication of leadership in the Oka crisis wasn't a factor in a "law and order" problem.
Now that the United Nations human rights committee has censured Canada's…
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A letter circulating in Lethbridge calling for the murder of aboriginal people is hardly a lark.
Fil Fraser, head of Alberta's Human Rights Commission, says insulting racial minorities is turning into the fad of the 1990s.
It's replaced things like mooning and streaking, he says.
Some people get a "cheap thrill" by making racial slurs, he says.
C'mon,…
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A plan to slaughter 4,200 bisons in Wood Buffalo National Park ha been quashed.
The likely alternative, said the grand chief of Treaty 8, is a proposal by Treaty 8 chiefs to quarantine the bison in the 44,800 km park, which straddles the border between Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
Frank Halcrow, after meeting with federal Environment Minister Robert de…
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Alberta Metis settlements will receive 1.25 million acres of land as part of a $310 million land settlement signed by Premier Don Getty Nov. 1.
The move also paves the way for increasing self-determination for the eight Metis settlements.
"The legislation provides the base we can build on and the tools to make and meet our own destiny," said Randy Hardy, president…
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The Lubicon Lake band will stop a High Prairie lumber band will stop a High Prairie limber company from building an access road to timber-cutting areas, says the Lubicon chief.
"We're not going to stand by and watch them. We're not going to allow any more logging," said Bernard Ominayak.
Buchanan Lumber is preparing a logging road which the Lubicons claim infringes…