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Twice as many Native infants die as non-Native babies, according to a report by the Canadian Institute of Child Health. The mortality rate is also twice a high in poor families as in rich ones. Death rates from injuries are four times higher among status Indian children at all ages than the national average. The report prompted the Assembly of First Nations to challenge the…
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Twice as many Native infants die as non-Native babies, according to a report by the Canadian Institute of Child Health. The mortality rate is also twice a high in poor families as in rich ones. Death rates from injuries are four times higher among status Indian children at all ages than the national average. The report prompted the Assembly of First Nations to challenge the…
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Twice as many Native infants die as non-Native babies, according to a report by the Canadian Institute of Child Health. The mortality rate is also twice a high in poor families as in rich ones. Death rates from injuries are four times higher among status Indian children at all ages than the national average. The report prompted the Assembly of First Nations to challenge the…
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Eight out of every 10 aboriginal women in Ontario have been battered, threatened or sexually abused by a family member, according to a recent study. That's eight times the Canadian average. Husbands were cited as the abuser by 84 per cent of victims. Almost all of the victims--82 per cent--want charges laid. The Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA) study also found four of…
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Eight out of every 10 aboriginal women in Ontario have been battered, threatened or sexually abused by a family member, according to a recent study. That's eight times the Canadian average. Husbands were cited as the abuser by 84 per cent of victims. Almost all of the victims--82 per cent--want charges laid. The Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA) study also found four of…
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Eight out of every 10 aboriginal women in Ontario have been battered, threatened or sexually abused by a family member, according to a recent study. That's eight times the Canadian average. Husbands were cited as the abuser by 84 per cent of victims. Almost all of the victims--82 per cent--want charges laid. The Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA) study also found four of…
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Eight out of every 10 aboriginal women in Ontario have been battered, threatened or sexually abused by a family member, according to a recent study. That's eight times the Canadian average. Husbands were cited as the abuser by 84 per cent of victims. Almost all of the victims--82 per cent--want charges laid. The Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA) study also found four of…
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The royal commission into the wrongful murder conviction of MicMac Indian Donald Marshall has blasted police, lawyers and bureaucrats in Nova Scotia for their role in his unjust imprisonment. "The criminal justice system failed Donald Marshall Jr. at virtually every turn from his arrest and wrongful conviction for murder in 1971 up to and even beyond his acquittal by the Court of…
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Hobbema boxer Danny Stonewalker punched his way to the top, grabbing the Canadian light-heavyweight title Jan. 29.
The 28-year-old Metis won a unanimous decision over Dave 'Machine Gun' Fiddler of Edmonton for the vacant title before 1,600 spectators at Red Deer's Westerner Exposition Altaplex.
Three judges awarded Stonewalker a unanimous decision in the 12-round…
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Hobbema boxer Danny Stonewalker punched his way to the top, grabbing the Canadian light-heavyweight title Jan. 29.
The 28-year-old Metis won a unanimous decision over Dave 'Machine Gun' Fiddler of Edmonton for the vacant title before 1,600 spectators at Red Deer's Westerner Exposition Altaplex.
Three judges awarded Stonewalker a unanimous decision in the 12-round…
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Hobbema boxer Danny Stonewalker punched his way to the top, grabbing the Canadian light-heavyweight title Jan. 29.
The 28-year-old Metis won a unanimous decision over Dave 'Machine Gun' Fiddler of Edmonton for the vacant title before 1,600 spectators at Red Deer's Westerner Exposition Altaplex.
Three judges awarded Stonewalker a unanimous decision in the 12-round…
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Hobbema boxer Danny Stonewalker punched his way to the top, grabbing the Canadian light-heavyweight title Jan. 29.
The 28-year-old Metis won a unanimous decision over Dave 'Machine Gun' Fiddler of Edmonton for the vacant title before 1,600 spectators at Red Deer's Westerner Exposition Altaplex.
Three judges awarded Stonewalker a unanimous decision in the 12-round…
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The Samson Band has closed its schools because of a whooping cough epidemic that has hit 250 Hobbema residents.
One day care, a kindergarten facility and a private school have closed in order for parents to have their children immunized and treated, said Samson Band Councilor Larron Northwest last week.
On Jan. 18 the Hobbema Health Center staff had 100 children…
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The Samson Band has closed its schools because of a whooping cough epidemic that has hit 250 Hobbema residents.
One day care, a kindergarten facility and a private school have closed in order for parents to have their children immunized and treated, said Samson Band Councilor Larron Northwest last week.
On Jan. 18 the Hobbema Health Center staff had 100 children…
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The Samson Band has closed its schools because of a whooping cough epidemic that has hit 250 Hobbema residents.
One day care, a kindergarten facility and a private school have closed in order for parents to have their children immunized and treated, said Samson Band Councilor Larron Northwest last week.
On Jan. 18 the Hobbema Health Center staff had 100 children…