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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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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…
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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…
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Education can stop the spread of AIDS but teaching people to protect themselves is a slow process, an American health educator told an Edmonton conference recently.
Joan Lewis works with the American Indian Health Care Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been involved in AIDS education since 1988. AIDS can be stopped
if people change the way they act, she…
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Education can stop the spread of AIDS but teaching people to protect themselves is a slow process, an American health educator told an Edmonton conference recently.
Joan Lewis works with the American Indian Health Care Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been involved in AIDS education since 1988. AIDS can be stopped
if people change the way they act, she…
Page 15
Education can stop the spread of AIDS but teaching people to protect themselves is a slow process, an American health educator told an Edmonton conference recently.
Joan Lewis works with the American Indian Health Care Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been involved in AIDS education since 1988. AIDS can be stopped
if people change the way they act, she…
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Education can stop the spread of AIDS but teaching people to protect themselves is a slow process, an American health educator told an Edmonton conference recently.
Joan Lewis works with the American Indian Health Care Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been involved in AIDS education since 1988. AIDS can be stopped
if people change the way they act, she…
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Alcohol and drug abuse among New Zealand's young aboriginals has reached near epidemic proportions.
But after 150 years of colonial domination, the Maori people are experiencing a resurgence of new pride and new hope for the future. And with that new-found pride they hope to overcome their substance abuse problems.
Wendy Arahanga of Auckland, New Zealand, told an…
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Alcohol and drug abuse among New Zealand's young aboriginals has reached near epidemic proportions.
But after 150 years of colonial domination, the Maori people are experiencing a resurgence of new pride and new hope for the future. And with that new-found pride they hope to overcome their substance abuse problems.
Wendy Arahanga of Auckland, New Zealand, told an…
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Alcohol and drug abuse among New Zealand's young aboriginals has reached near epidemic proportions.
But after 150 years of colonial domination, the Maori people are experiencing a resurgence of new pride and new hope for the future. And with that new-found pride they hope to overcome their substance abuse problems.
Wendy Arahanga of Auckland, New Zealand, told an…
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Alcohol and drug abuse among New Zealand's young aboriginals has reached near epidemic proportions.
But after 150 years of colonial domination, the Maori people are experiencing a resurgence of new pride and new hope for the future. And with that new-found pride they hope to overcome their substance abuse problems.
Wendy Arahanga of Auckland, New Zealand, told an…
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The defeat of the Charlottetown accord shouldn't stop work towards self-government at the community level, says leaders of some of Manitoba's Native organizations.
"The struggle continues at the community level whether the vote had gone yes
or no," said Kathy Mallet, a spokesman for Winnipeg's Original Women's Network.
"There too much time spent on this…
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The Saskatchewan government wants protesters blockading a northern logging road to dismantle their six-month-old camp. But members of the Protectors of Mother Earth organization say they are going to stay put.
Doug Cressman, the province's deputy minister of natural resources, has sent a letter to the group asking them to leave their cabins, tents and trailers on Highway…
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The Saskatchewan government wants protesters blockading a northern logging road to dismantle their six-month-old camp. But members of the Protectors of Mother Earth organization say they are going to stay put.
Doug Cressman, the province's deputy minister of natural resources, has sent a letter to the group asking them to leave their cabins, tents and trailers on Highway…
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The Saskatchewan government wants protesters blockading a northern logging road to dismantle their six-month-old camp. But members of the Protectors of Mother Earth organization say they are going to stay put.
Doug Cressman, the province's deputy minister of natural resources, has sent a letter to the group asking them to leave their cabins, tents and trailers on Highway…
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The Saskatchewan government wants protesters blockading a northern logging road to dismantle their six-month-old camp. But members of the Protectors of Mother Earth organization say they are going to stay put.
Doug Cressman, the province's deputy minister of natural resources, has sent a letter to the group asking them to leave their cabins, tents and trailers on Highway…