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  • Windspeaker Staff, OTTAWA

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The federal government should fund more shelters and counselling services for abused women and children, especially in Native communities, said a panel investigating violence against women.

An interim report by the Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women, issued after a cross-country tour of community meetings, concluded abuse of women is higher than most Canadians…

  • Windspeaker Staff, OTTAWA

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The federal government should fund more shelters and counselling services for abused women and children, especially in Native communities, said a panel investigating violence against women.

An interim report by the Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women, issued after a cross-country tour of community meetings, concluded abuse of women is higher than most Canadians…

  • Cooper Langford, Windspeaker Staff Writer, CANOE LAKE SASK.

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Members of the three-month-old logging blockade in northern Saskatchewan are building cabins and a school so they can continue their protests into the winter.

"They'll probably start up a village," said Bernice Iron, a supporter of the blockade that went up in May to protest clear-cutting around the Meadow Lake Tribal Council's nine-member communities.

Protesters…

  • Cooper Langford, Windspeaker Staff Writer, CANOE LAKE SASK.

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Members of the three-month-old logging blockade in northern Saskatchewan are building cabins and a school so they can continue their protests into the winter.

"They'll probably start up a village," said Bernice Iron, a supporter of the blockade that went up in May to protest clear-cutting around the Meadow Lake Tribal Council's nine-member communities.

Protesters…

  • Cooper Langford, Windspeaker Staff Writer, CANOE LAKE SASK.

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Members of the three-month-old logging blockade in northern Saskatchewan are building cabins and a school so they can continue their protests into the winter.

"They'll probably start up a village," said Bernice Iron, a supporter of the blockade that went up in May to protest clear-cutting around the Meadow Lake Tribal Council's nine-member communities.

Protesters…

  • Cooper Langford, Windspeaker Staff Writer, CANOE LAKE SASK.

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Members of the three-month-old logging blockade in northern Saskatchewan are building cabins and a school so they can continue their protests into the winter.

"They'll probably start up a village," said Bernice Iron, a supporter of the blockade that went up in May to protest clear-cutting around the Meadow Lake Tribal Council's nine-member communities.

Protesters…

  • Windspeaker Staff, OTTAWA

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Canada's premier's and Native constitutional negotiators arrived at a final agreement on how self-government will be written into Canada's fundamental law.

But the deal achieved after months of negotiation and consultation is getting

mixed reactions - even strong opposition - from some local and provincial Native organizations.

Kahnawake Mohawk chief Billy…

  • Windspeaker Staff, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

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A secret informant on racist activities in Saskatchewan is being investigated by the inquiry into the shooting death of Leo LaChance, the inquiry panel announced in a surprise move.

Prince Albert city police made the admission during a closed-door meeting with the three-member commission investigating the slaying of the 48-year-old Cree trapper.

At a brief…

  • Windspeaker Staff, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

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A secret informant on racist activities in Saskatchewan is being investigated by the inquiry into the shooting death of Leo LaChance, the inquiry panel announced in a surprise move.

Prince Albert city police made the admission during a closed-door meeting with the three-member commission investigating the slaying of the 48-year-old Cree trapper.

At a brief…

  • Windspeaker Staff, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

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A secret informant on racist activities in Saskatchewan is being investigated by the inquiry into the shooting death of Leo LaChance, the inquiry panel announced in a surprise move.

Prince Albert city police made the admission during a closed-door meeting with the three-member commission investigating the slaying of the 48-year-old Cree trapper.

At a brief…

  • Windspeaker Staff, PRINCE ALBERT SASK.

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A secret informant on racist activities in Saskatchewan is being investigated by the inquiry into the shooting death of Leo LaChance, the inquiry panel announced in a surprise move.

Prince Albert city police made the admission during a closed-door meeting with the three-member commission investigating the slaying of the 48-year-old Cree trapper.

At a brief…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Thompson Manitoba

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The wife of deceased Shamattawa, Manitoba chief Noah Redhead has been granted bail and ordered to take alcohol counselling.

Jessie Redhead, 23, was charged with second-degree murder following the stabbing death of her husband last month. She has been ordered to stay away from the reserve.

Noah Redhead's death has focused attention on the troubled northern reserve,…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Thompson Manitoba

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The wife of deceased Shamattawa, Manitoba chief Noah Redhead has been granted bail and ordered to take alcohol counselling.

Jessie Redhead, 23, was charged with second-degree murder following the stabbing death of her husband last month. She has been ordered to stay away from the reserve.

Noah Redhead's death has focused attention on the troubled northern reserve,…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Thompson Manitoba

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The wife of deceased Shamattawa, Manitoba chief Noah Redhead has been granted bail and ordered to take alcohol counselling.

Jessie Redhead, 23, was charged with second-degree murder following the stabbing death of her husband last month. She has been ordered to stay away from the reserve.

Noah Redhead's death has focused attention on the troubled northern reserve,…

  • Windspeaker Staff, Thompson Manitoba

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The wife of deceased Shamattawa, Manitoba chief Noah Redhead has been granted bail and ordered to take alcohol counselling.

Jessie Redhead, 23, was charged with second-degree murder following the stabbing death of her husband last month. She has been ordered to stay away from the reserve.

Noah Redhead's death has focused attention on the troubled northern reserve,…