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Windspeaker Publication

Windspeaker Publication

Established in 1983 to serve the needs of northern Alberta, Windspeaker became a national newspaper on its 10th anniversary in 1993.

  • October 21, 2001
  • Marlena Dolan, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 4

Canada boasts of having one of the highest living standards in the world. I guess someone should tell those people living at Davis Inlet that they're not quite making it as Canadians. The living conditions of the Innu people are absolutely appalling and it's a disgrace that it's happening in Canada. These conditions are to be expected in Third World countries. It must be very…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Marlena Dolan, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 4

Canada boasts of having one of the highest living standards in the world. I guess someone should tell those people living at Davis Inlet that they're not quite making it as Canadians. The living conditions of the Innu people are absolutely appalling and it's a disgrace that it's happening in Canada. These conditions are to be expected in Third World countries. It must be very…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Marlena Dolan, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 4

Canada boasts of having one of the highest living standards in the world. I guess someone should tell those people living at Davis Inlet that they're not quite making it as Canadians. The living conditions of the Innu people are absolutely appalling and it's a disgrace that it's happening in Canada. These conditions are to be expected in Third World countries. It must be very…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Marlena Dolan, Windspeaker Columnist

Page 4

Canada boasts of having one of the highest living standards in the world. I guess someone should tell those people living at Davis Inlet that they're not quite making it as Canadians. The living conditions of the Innu people are absolutely appalling and it's a disgrace that it's happening in Canada. These conditions are to be expected in Third World countries. It must be very…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

The plight of the Inn at Davis Inlet once again brought attention to the issue of Native rights and the deplorable conditions many aboriginals find themselves living in.

The conditions that the 500 residents in the remote northern community endure

are frightening.

They've been moved off their traditional hunting grounds, shunted around the province over a…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

The plight of the Inn at Davis Inlet once again brought attention to the issue of Native rights and the deplorable conditions many aboriginals find themselves living in.

The conditions that the 500 residents in the remote northern community endure

are frightening.

They've been moved off their traditional hunting grounds, shunted around the province over a…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

The plight of the Inn at Davis Inlet once again brought attention to the issue of Native rights and the deplorable conditions many aboriginals find themselves living in.

The conditions that the 500 residents in the remote northern community endure

are frightening.

They've been moved off their traditional hunting grounds, shunted around the province over a…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

The plight of the Inn at Davis Inlet once again brought attention to the issue of Native rights and the deplorable conditions many aboriginals find themselves living in.

The conditions that the 500 residents in the remote northern community endure

are frightening.

They've been moved off their traditional hunting grounds, shunted around the province over a…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Vancouver

Page 3

Some members of the B.C. Fishermen's Survival Coalition are upset that the federal government did not allow them to attend a meeting with Native representatives earlier this month.

Phillip Eibsvik, a spokesman for the coalition, said two members of the group showed up at the Feb. 5 meeting between Fisheries Minister John Crosbie and band chiefs of the Fraser River…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Vancouver

Page 3

Some members of the B.C. Fishermen's Survival Coalition are upset that the federal government did not allow them to attend a meeting with Native representatives earlier this month.

Phillip Eibsvik, a spokesman for the coalition, said two members of the group showed up at the Feb. 5 meeting between Fisheries Minister John Crosbie and band chiefs of the Fraser River…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Vancouver

Page 3

Some members of the B.C. Fishermen's Survival Coalition are upset that the federal government did not allow them to attend a meeting with Native representatives earlier this month.

Phillip Eibsvik, a spokesman for the coalition, said two members of the group showed up at the Feb. 5 meeting between Fisheries Minister John Crosbie and band chiefs of the Fraser River…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Vancouver

Page 3

Some members of the B.C. Fishermen's Survival Coalition are upset that the federal government did not allow them to attend a meeting with Native representatives earlier this month.

Phillip Eibsvik, a spokesman for the coalition, said two members of the group showed up at the Feb. 5 meeting between Fisheries Minister John Crosbie and band chiefs of the Fraser River…

  • October 21, 2001
  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, St. Albert Alberta

Page 3

Children from the remote community of Davis Inlet are heading for Alberta to

be treated for solvent addiction.

Fourteen youths, accompanied by their parents, Elders and translators, are scheduled to begin arriving at Poundmaker's Lodge in mid-February to begin 90 days

of addiction counselling, the lodge's executive director said.

"The community is…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Prince Albert Saskatchewan

Page 2

Ironically, two decisions concerning the fate of white supremacist Carney Nerland were both made on the second anniversary of Nerland's shooting of Cree trapper Leo LaChance.

Nerland, currently serving a four-year sentence for manslaughter in Manitoba's Stony Mountain prison, was ordered returned to Saskatchewan to testify at the Hughes Inquiry, which is investigating the…

  • October 21, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, Prince Albert Saskatchewan

Page 2

Ironically, two decisions concerning the fate of white supremacist Carney Nerland were both made on the second anniversary of Nerland's shooting of Cree trapper Leo LaChance.

Nerland, currently serving a four-year sentence for manslaughter in Manitoba's Stony Mountain prison, was ordered returned to Saskatchewan to testify at the Hughes Inquiry, which is investigating the…