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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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Demonstrators attempting to pressure the non-status woman elected chief of their northern Alberta reserve vowed to continue their protest despite a court order keeping them out of the band hall.
"Everything has been affected by this," said one member of the protest camp at Sturgeon Lake, about 350 km northwest of Edmonton. "Don't make this sound like a petty argument...…
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The logging blockade in northern Saskatchewan has forced one forest-related business to lay off all 40 of its employees because protesters won't allow company trucks into the area for cutting.
"We tried to talk to (the protesters) to let us go in and they told us 'nobody goes in'," said Lamont Heppner, president of Heppner and Sons Pulp Ltd., a pulp delivery contractor for…
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The logging blockade in northern Saskatchewan has forced one forest-related business to lay off all 40 of its employees because protesters won't allow company trucks into the area for cutting.
"We tried to talk to (the protesters) to let us go in and they told us 'nobody goes in'," said Lamont Heppner, president of Heppner and Sons Pulp Ltd., a pulp delivery contractor for…
Page 3
The logging blockade in northern Saskatchewan has forced one forest-related business to lay off all 40 of its employees because protesters won't allow company trucks into the area for cutting.
"We tried to talk to (the protesters) to let us go in and they told us 'nobody goes in'," said Lamont Heppner, president of Heppner and Sons Pulp Ltd., a pulp delivery contractor for…
Page 3
The logging blockade in northern Saskatchewan has forced one forest-related business to lay off all 40 of its employees because protesters won't allow company trucks into the area for cutting.
"We tried to talk to (the protesters) to let us go in and they told us 'nobody goes in'," said Lamont Heppner, president of Heppner and Sons Pulp Ltd., a pulp delivery contractor for…
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RCMP are investigating a string a sexual abuse allegations on the Sandy Bay reserve, the site of a recent inquiry into political interference in abuse investigations.
Sgt. Robert McAffee said officers are sorting details of the case, which emerged
as some 50 children and adults came forward with allegations dating back dozens of years.
So far a teenager and…
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RCMP are investigating a string a sexual abuse allegations on the Sandy Bay reserve, the site of a recent inquiry into political interference in abuse investigations.
Sgt. Robert McAffee said officers are sorting details of the case, which emerged
as some 50 children and adults came forward with allegations dating back dozens of years.
So far a teenager and…
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RCMP are investigating a string a sexual abuse allegations on the Sandy Bay reserve, the site of a recent inquiry into political interference in abuse investigations.
Sgt. Robert McAffee said officers are sorting details of the case, which emerged
as some 50 children and adults came forward with allegations dating back dozens of years.
So far a teenager and…
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RCMP are investigating a string a sexual abuse allegations on the Sandy Bay reserve, the site of a recent inquiry into political interference in abuse investigations.
Sgt. Robert McAffee said officers are sorting details of the case, which emerged
as some 50 children and adults came forward with allegations dating back dozens of years.
So far a teenager and…
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The flooded graves at the old Cheslatta reserve in northern British Columbia are only the tip of the damage created by a government's negligence of Native land rights. They are a deep insult resting on top of a very deep injury.
The sight of the quiet white houses tilting into the waters of Cheslatta Lake is also highly symbolic. What are cemeteries if not a place where…
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The flooded graves at the old Cheslatta reserve in northern British Columbia are only the tip of the damage created by a government's negligence of Native land rights. They are a deep insult resting on top of a very deep injury.
The sight of the quiet white houses tilting into the waters of Cheslatta Lake is also highly symbolic. What are cemeteries if not a place where…
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The flooded graves at the old Cheslatta reserve in northern British Columbia are only the tip of the damage created by a government's negligence of Native land rights. They are a deep insult resting on top of a very deep injury.
The sight of the quiet white houses tilting into the waters of Cheslatta Lake is also highly symbolic. What are cemeteries if not a place where…
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The flooded graves at the old Cheslatta reserve in northern British Columbia are only the tip of the damage created by a government's negligence of Native land rights. They are a deep insult resting on top of a very deep injury.
The sight of the quiet white houses tilting into the waters of Cheslatta Lake is also highly symbolic. What are cemeteries if not a place where…
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There's not a lot the federal government can do about the protest at Sturgeon Lake, where Darlene Desjarlais, a non-status Native from Sakatchewan, was elected
chief. Indeed, department officials in Edmonton described the dispute as an internal matter.
But while it can do little in the way of direct intervention, the department - the politicians it informs,…
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There's not a lot the federal government can do about the protest at Sturgeon Lake, where Darlene Desjarlais, a non-status Native from Sakatchewan, was elected
chief. Indeed, department officials in Edmonton described the dispute as an internal matter.
But while it can do little in the way of direct intervention, the department - the politicians it informs,…