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Noeline Villebrun says land claim decisions made by NWT leaders make her feel like she's lost her birthright.
A past resident of the Northwest Territories, Villebrun told Dene and Metis leaders at a meeting held in Edmonton on Wednesday that it hurts her to think organizations, which are supposed to represent her, are actually disinheriting her, because she now lives in…
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Two and a half years ago Native fashion designer Kathy Shirt was a victim of a hit and run accident. It took a long time to recuperate and she still suffers pain on her entire right side. But she used the time to reflect deeply on her life. Shirt has become more relaxed and contented and has decided to change careers; she'll no longer design fashions, instead her creativity will…
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Two and a half years ago Native fashion designer Kathy Shirt was a victim of a hit and run accident. It took a long time to recuperate and she still suffers pain on her entire right side. But she used the time to reflect deeply on her life. Shirt has become more relaxed and contented and has decided to change careers; she'll no longer design fashions, instead her creativity will…
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Two and a half years ago Native fashion designer Kathy Shirt was a victim of a hit and run accident. It took a long time to recuperate and she still suffers pain on her entire right side. But she used the time to reflect deeply on her life. Shirt has become more relaxed and contented and has decided to change careers; she'll no longer design fashions, instead her creativity will…
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Two and a half years ago Native fashion designer Kathy Shirt was a victim of a hit and run accident. It took a long time to recuperate and she still suffers pain on her entire right side. But she used the time to reflect deeply on her life. Shirt has become more relaxed and contented and has decided to change careers; she'll no longer design fashions, instead her creativity will…
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A social service coalition, which is only weeks away from obtaining joint-government funding to fight AIDS in Edmonton's inner city, should be expanded to include Native groups, says an Alberta Indian Health Care Commission member.
Anne Bird credits the seven-member coalition for trying to combat the deadly virus in the inner city, but fears it's ignoring a sizable…
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A social service coalition, which is only weeks away from obtaining joint-government funding to fight AIDS in Edmonton's inner city, should be expanded to include Native groups, says an Alberta Indian Health Care Commission member.
Anne Bird credits the seven-member coalition for trying to combat the deadly virus in the inner city, but fears it's ignoring a sizable…
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A social service coalition, which is only weeks away from obtaining joint-government funding to fight AIDS in Edmonton's inner city, should be expanded to include Native groups, says an Alberta Indian Health Care Commission member.
Anne Bird credits the seven-member coalition for trying to combat the deadly virus in the inner city, but fears it's ignoring a sizable…
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A social service coalition, which is only weeks away from obtaining joint-government funding to fight AIDS in Edmonton's inner city, should be expanded to include Native groups, says an Alberta Indian Health Care Commission member.
Anne Bird credits the seven-member coalition for trying to combat the deadly virus in the inner city, but fears it's ignoring a sizable…
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The first Native person to test positive for the AIDS virus in Alberta has taken off what he calls his mask of shame to tell others "you have to look death square in the face and help people to understand it can happen to them too."
Ken Ward, whose anonymous letter appeared in Windspeaker Feb.16 explaining his emotional hell since being confirmed HIV positive last year, is…
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The first Native person to test positive for the AIDS virus in Alberta has taken off what he calls his mask of shame to tell others "you have to look death square in the face and help people to understand it can happen to them too."
Ken Ward, whose anonymous letter appeared in Windspeaker Feb.16 explaining his emotional hell since being confirmed HIV positive last year, is…
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The first Native person to test positive for the AIDS virus in Alberta has taken off what he calls his mask of shame to tell others "you have to look death square in the face and help people to understand it can happen to them too."
Ken Ward, whose anonymous letter appeared in Windspeaker Feb.16 explaining his emotional hell since being confirmed HIV positive last year, is…
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The first Native person to test positive for the AIDS virus in Alberta has taken off what he calls his mask of shame to tell others "you have to look death square in the face and help people to understand it can happen to them too."
Ken Ward, whose anonymous letter appeared in Windspeaker Feb.16 explaining his emotional hell since being confirmed HIV positive last year, is…
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Mary Carpenter woke up the other day and decided she would make her point.
Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born governor general, would have loved it.
Mary woke up and dialed the Office of the Secretary of State of Canada.
A woman came on the line and asked, in both official languages, if she could help.
Mary asked if she might speak with the…
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Skanangohwe!
How many times have you seen a movie where the man of the house is a fat-bellied, beer-swilling, half-dresses, unshaven slob? And one day, all of a sudden, he hauls off and slugs his long-suffering wife right in the chops and screams, "Shut-Up! I'm sick and tired of your nagging!"
You get the picture, I'm sure.
I don't know how Michael Wilson…