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Windspeaker Publication

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

  • October 20, 2001
  • Cooper Langford, Windspeaker Staff Writer, EDMONTON

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A settlement of the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim should include the hotly disputed compensation package that has dead-locked current negotiations, a former Conservative cabinet member says.

"Any settlement has to take into account the facts of the treatment to which the Lubicon have been exposed," said E. Davie Fulton, who write a mid-80s government report on the Lubicon…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

Page 1

The RCMP does not have to reveal the name of an informant on racist activities

in Saskatchewan to an inquiry into the death of Leo LaChance, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

The court refused to hear an appeal from the inquiry into the 1991 shooting of the Cree trapper by racist leader Carney Nerland, effectively upholding an earlier decision by the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

Page 1

The RCMP does not have to reveal the name of an informant on racist activities

in Saskatchewan to an inquiry into the death of Leo LaChance, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

The court refused to hear an appeal from the inquiry into the 1991 shooting of the Cree trapper by racist leader Carney Nerland, effectively upholding an earlier decision by the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

Page 1

The RCMP does not have to reveal the name of an informant on racist activities

in Saskatchewan to an inquiry into the death of Leo LaChance, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

The court refused to hear an appeal from the inquiry into the 1991 shooting of the Cree trapper by racist leader Carney Nerland, effectively upholding an earlier decision by the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Windspeaker Staff, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

Page 1

The RCMP does not have to reveal the name of an informant on racist activities

in Saskatchewan to an inquiry into the death of Leo LaChance, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

The court refused to hear an appeal from the inquiry into the 1991 shooting of the Cree trapper by racist leader Carney Nerland, effectively upholding an earlier decision by the…

  • October 20, 2001
  • John Eberlee, VANCOUVER

Page 20

A scientist at Simon Fraser University is searching through buried plant remains for signs of earthquakes and other catastrophic events from the distant past.

Rolf Mathewes uses analysis of fossil pollens to determine the frequency of seismic activity during the last few thousand years. But uncovering evidence of past earthquakes, scientists should be able to determine…

  • October 20, 2001
  • John Eberlee, VANCOUVER

Page 20

A scientist at Simon Fraser University is searching through buried plant remains for signs of earthquakes and other catastrophic events from the distant past.

Rolf Mathewes uses analysis of fossil pollens to determine the frequency of seismic activity during the last few thousand years. But uncovering evidence of past earthquakes, scientists should be able to determine…

  • October 20, 2001
  • John Eberlee, VANCOUVER

Page 20

A scientist at Simon Fraser University is searching through buried plant remains for signs of earthquakes and other catastrophic events from the distant past.

Rolf Mathewes uses analysis of fossil pollens to determine the frequency of seismic activity during the last few thousand years. But uncovering evidence of past earthquakes, scientists should be able to determine…

  • October 20, 2001
  • John Eberlee, VANCOUVER

Page 20

A scientist at Simon Fraser University is searching through buried plant remains for signs of earthquakes and other catastrophic events from the distant past.

Rolf Mathewes uses analysis of fossil pollens to determine the frequency of seismic activity during the last few thousand years. But uncovering evidence of past earthquakes, scientists should be able to determine…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 19

Enoch youth are being admitted this year into the Edmonton Minor League Hockey Association as part of a plan to give all children a fair chance at playing the game.

Enoch recreation co-ordinator Neil Morin says that reserve's minor hockey program has been dismantled while most of the players join Edmonton-based teams. Children will no longer have to "go through the back…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Contributor

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Enoch youth are being admitted this year into the Edmonton Minor League Hockey Association as part of a plan to give all children a fair chance at playing the game.

Enoch recreation co-ordinator Neil Morin says that reserve's minor hockey program has been dismantled while most of the players join Edmonton-based teams. Children will no longer have to "go through the back…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 19

Enoch youth are being admitted this year into the Edmonton Minor League Hockey Association as part of a plan to give all children a fair chance at playing the game.

Enoch recreation co-ordinator Neil Morin says that reserve's minor hockey program has been dismantled while most of the players join Edmonton-based teams. Children will no longer have to "go through the back…

  • October 20, 2001
  • Jeff Morrow, Windspeaker Contributor

Page 19

Enoch youth are being admitted this year into the Edmonton Minor League Hockey Association as part of a plan to give all children a fair chance at playing the game.

Enoch recreation co-ordinator Neil Morin says that reserve's minor hockey program has been dismantled while most of the players join Edmonton-based teams. Children will no longer have to "go through the back…

  • October 20, 2001
  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Contributor, EDMONTON

Page 17

Helping Native adult offenders beat alcohol and drug addictions means getting to the root of the problem, say counsellors at Edmonton's Grierson Centre.

The minimum security facility's seven-week-long Family Life Improvement Program is designed to help drug and alcohol abusers understand the mental and psychological causes of their addictions and replace those behaviors…

  • October 20, 2001
  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Contributor, EDMONTON

Page 17

Helping Native adult offenders beat alcohol and drug addictions means getting to the root of the problem, say counsellors at Edmonton's Grierson Centre.

The minimum security facility's seven-week-long Family Life Improvement Program is designed to help drug and alcohol abusers understand the mental and psychological causes of their addictions and replace those behaviors…