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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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Managing a running club proved to be too much responsibility for one coach, who says he abandoned a group of hopefuls on route to New Zealand because the pressure was too great.
Tom Wesley failed to meet a group young athletes of the First Nations Running Club on the eve of their journey to a sacred run in New Zealand Oct. 29, 1993. The eight teenagers were stranded…
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Author's home in southern Saskatchewan a welcome sight after a long absence.
During the years I lived off reserve I always had a growing sense of anticipation when I returned, especially when the reserve came into sight.
The boundaries of the reserve are clear. Pasqua Lake is on the north with the southern border having a tree-line where adjacent farm land have…
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Author's home in southern Saskatchewan a welcome sight after a long absence.
During the years I lived off reserve I always had a growing sense of anticipation when I returned, especially when the reserve came into sight.
The boundaries of the reserve are clear. Pasqua Lake is on the north with the southern border having a tree-line where adjacent farm land have…
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Author's home in southern Saskatchewan a welcome sight after a long absence.
During the years I lived off reserve I always had a growing sense of anticipation when I returned, especially when the reserve came into sight.
The boundaries of the reserve are clear. Pasqua Lake is on the north with the southern border having a tree-line where adjacent farm land have…
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Author's home in southern Saskatchewan a welcome sight after a long absence.
During the years I lived off reserve I always had a growing sense of anticipation when I returned, especially when the reserve came into sight.
The boundaries of the reserve are clear. Pasqua Lake is on the north with the southern border having a tree-line where adjacent farm land have…
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It's a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Vancouver. I've just received a phone call from Windspeaker asking if I would like to do a story on an Elder for this issue.
"Great," I say, "when's the deadline.?"
"Monday," said the voice on the other end.
"Oh," I say. Kind of a tight deadline, I think to myself. Well, it can't be that difficult to find an Elder to…
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It's a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Vancouver. I've just received a phone call from Windspeaker asking if I would like to do a story on an Elder for this issue.
"Great," I say, "when's the deadline.?"
"Monday," said the voice on the other end.
"Oh," I say. Kind of a tight deadline, I think to myself. Well, it can't be that difficult to find an Elder to…
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It's a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Vancouver. I've just received a phone call from Windspeaker asking if I would like to do a story on an Elder for this issue.
"Great," I say, "when's the deadline.?"
"Monday," said the voice on the other end.
"Oh," I say. Kind of a tight deadline, I think to myself. Well, it can't be that difficult to find an Elder to…
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It's a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Vancouver. I've just received a phone call from Windspeaker asking if I would like to do a story on an Elder for this issue.
"Great," I say, "when's the deadline.?"
"Monday," said the voice on the other end.
"Oh," I say. Kind of a tight deadline, I think to myself. Well, it can't be that difficult to find an Elder to…
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An intense vaccination campaign aimed at stopping an outbreak of meningitis on Manitoba reserves and communities has wrapped up successfully.
"We've come pretty close to achieving a 95 per cent vaccination rate in the communities," said Dr. Ted Rosenberg, community medical consultant with Health Canada in Winnipeg.
Approximately 24,000 children between the ages of…
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An intense vaccination campaign aimed at stopping an outbreak of meningitis on Manitoba reserves and communities has wrapped up successfully.
"We've come pretty close to achieving a 95 per cent vaccination rate in the communities," said Dr. Ted Rosenberg, community medical consultant with Health Canada in Winnipeg.
Approximately 24,000 children between the ages of…
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An intense vaccination campaign aimed at stopping an outbreak of meningitis on Manitoba reserves and communities has wrapped up successfully.
"We've come pretty close to achieving a 95 per cent vaccination rate in the communities," said Dr. Ted Rosenberg, community medical consultant with Health Canada in Winnipeg.
Approximately 24,000 children between the ages of…
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An intense vaccination campaign aimed at stopping an outbreak of meningitis on Manitoba reserves and communities has wrapped up successfully.
"We've come pretty close to achieving a 95 per cent vaccination rate in the communities," said Dr. Ted Rosenberg, community medical consultant with Health Canada in Winnipeg.
Approximately 24,000 children between the ages of…
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First Nations in Manitoba should take over their child welfare systems, states a major report released last month in Winnipeg.
Prepared by the First Nations Child and Family Task Force, the report outlines a three-stage action plan in which full jurisdiction over child and family services would be transferred to First Nations communities within a period of about five…
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First Nations in Manitoba should take over their child welfare systems, states a major report released last month in Winnipeg.
Prepared by the First Nations Child and Family Task Force, the report outlines a three-stage action plan in which full jurisdiction over child and family services would be transferred to First Nations communities within a period of about five…