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Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.
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A tiny village located in Canada's Northwest Territories received support from an unexpected source last year. The 150 students at the Attanajuak school wrote Hulk Hogan, one of their most popular heroes, and invited him to participate in their 1989 Stop Smoking and Say No to Drugs activities.
"Although the World Wrestling Federation champion couldn't attend the week-long…
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As a manager of the band-owned Standoff Restaurant on the Blood Nation reserve in southern Alberta three years ago, Patsy Rabbit was getting fed up with her job.
"I was getting so frustrated because the band was always saying that I wasn't making enough money for them," she said. "One day I thought, I'd like to be on my own."
Problem was, even after working for the…
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As a manager of the band-owned Standoff Restaurant on the Blood Nation reserve in southern Alberta three years ago, Patsy Rabbit was getting fed up with her job.
"I was getting so frustrated because the band was always saying that I wasn't making enough money for them," she said. "One day I thought, I'd like to be on my own."
Problem was, even after working for the…
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As a manager of the band-owned Standoff Restaurant on the Blood Nation reserve in southern Alberta three years ago, Patsy Rabbit was getting fed up with her job.
"I was getting so frustrated because the band was always saying that I wasn't making enough money for them," she said. "One day I thought, I'd like to be on my own."
Problem was, even after working for the…
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As a manager of the band-owned Standoff Restaurant on the Blood Nation reserve in southern Alberta three years ago, Patsy Rabbit was getting fed up with her job.
"I was getting so frustrated because the band was always saying that I wasn't making enough money for them," she said. "One day I thought, I'd like to be on my own."
Problem was, even after working for the…
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Spoken promises about land use were traditionally ignored when it came time to write treaty agreements, the audience attending an environment conference in Edmonton heard.
The spirit and intent of Treaty 8, signed in 1899, led more than 25,000 Native people in Canada's boreal forests to mistakenly trust their traditional lifestyles would be protected, said one chief.…
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Spoken promises about land use were traditionally ignored when it came time to write treaty agreements, the audience attending an environment conference in Edmonton heard.
The spirit and intent of Treaty 8, signed in 1899, led more than 25,000 Native people in Canada's boreal forests to mistakenly trust their traditional lifestyles would be protected, said one chief.…
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Spoken promises about land use were traditionally ignored when it came time to write treaty agreements, the audience attending an environment conference in Edmonton heard.
The spirit and intent of Treaty 8, signed in 1899, led more than 25,000 Native people in Canada's boreal forests to mistakenly trust their traditional lifestyles would be protected, said one chief.…
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Spoken promises about land use were traditionally ignored when it came time to write treaty agreements, the audience attending an environment conference in Edmonton heard.
The spirit and intent of Treaty 8, signed in 1899, led more than 25,000 Native people in Canada's boreal forests to mistakenly trust their traditional lifestyles would be protected, said one chief.…
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If you're one of the thousands of Crees on waiting for subsidized housing, the news isn't good. At the current rate of housing construction, it will take until the year 2009 before every Eastern James Bay Cree who needs a new home right now get one. And that's not counting the fact that another 75 families are added to the waiting list for subsidized housing each year.
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If you're one of the thousands of Crees on waiting for subsidized housing, the news isn't good. At the current rate of housing construction, it will take until the year 2009 before every Eastern James Bay Cree who needs a new home right now get one. And that's not counting the fact that another 75 families are added to the waiting list for subsidized housing each year.
"…
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If you're one of the thousands of Crees on waiting for subsidized housing, the news isn't good. At the current rate of housing construction, it will take until the year 2009 before every Eastern James Bay Cree who needs a new home right now get one. And that's not counting the fact that another 75 families are added to the waiting list for subsidized housing each year.
"…
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If you're one of the thousands of Crees on waiting for subsidized housing, the news isn't good. At the current rate of housing construction, it will take until the year 2009 before every Eastern James Bay Cree who needs a new home right now get one. And that's not counting the fact that another 75 families are added to the waiting list for subsidized housing each year.
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Recent budget cuts by the Klein government could affect funding for Native education programs in the 1993-94 school year.
A five per cent decrease to the general education block next September, with an additional two per cent cut the following year will make it harder to maintain special programs at their current level.
"Ultimately, the decision will rest with the…
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Recent budget cuts by the Klein government could affect funding for Native education programs in the 1993-94 school year.
A five per cent decrease to the general education block next September, with an additional two per cent cut the following year will make it harder to maintain special programs at their current level.
"Ultimately, the decision will rest with the…