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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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The British Columbia government slapped a quota on the amount of tax-free cigarettes retailers can sell to status Natives following a provincial appeal court ruling.
Retailers will now be limited to 1,000 cartons of cigarettes per month for tax-free sale, the B.C. government announced. Finance Minister Glen Clark said the measure will stem the $3.9 million monthly tax loss…
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Thirty people blockading a northern Saskatchewan highway to protest clear-cut logging were arrested in a late-night RCMP raid involving 80 officers in riot gear.
Organizer Brian Ratt said the protesters, including some Native elders, were "aghast" at the show of force by the RCMP.
According to RCMP press statements, the arrests were peaceful and calm prevailed…
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Thirty people blockading a northern Saskatchewan highway to protest clear-cut logging were arrested in a late-night RCMP raid involving 80 officers in riot gear.
Organizer Brian Ratt said the protesters, including some Native elders, were "aghast" at the show of force by the RCMP.
According to RCMP press statements, the arrests were peaceful and calm prevailed…
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Thirty people blockading a northern Saskatchewan highway to protest clear-cut logging were arrested in a late-night RCMP raid involving 80 officers in riot gear.
Organizer Brian Ratt said the protesters, including some Native elders, were "aghast" at the show of force by the RCMP.
According to RCMP press statements, the arrests were peaceful and calm prevailed…
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Thirty people blockading a northern Saskatchewan highway to protest clear-cut logging were arrested in a late-night RCMP raid involving 80 officers in riot gear.
Organizer Brian Ratt said the protesters, including some Native elders, were "aghast" at the show of force by the RCMP.
According to RCMP press statements, the arrests were peaceful and calm prevailed…
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Two Native women being moved from the Edmonton Remand Centre to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario are claiming their treatment is discriminatory and racially motivated.
Other federally sentenced white women in the province - those serving sentences longer than two years -- are being allowed to stay in Alberta in provincial institutions, said Helen (not her real…
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Two Native women being moved from the Edmonton Remand Centre to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario are claiming their treatment is discriminatory and racially motivated.
Other federally sentenced white women in the province - those serving sentences longer than two years -- are being allowed to stay in Alberta in provincial institutions, said Helen (not her real…
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Two Native women being moved from the Edmonton Remand Centre to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario are claiming their treatment is discriminatory and racially motivated.
Other federally sentenced white women in the province - those serving sentences longer than two years -- are being allowed to stay in Alberta in provincial institutions, said Helen (not her real…
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Two Native women being moved from the Edmonton Remand Centre to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario are claiming their treatment is discriminatory and racially motivated.
Other federally sentenced white women in the province - those serving sentences longer than two years -- are being allowed to stay in Alberta in provincial institutions, said Helen (not her real…
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Whether urban-self government should recognize distinctive Native groups or
be "status-blind" will be a key issue in off-reserve constitutional development. And the debate promises to be long and hard.
More than 100 delegates met recently in Edmonton to discuss the needs of Canada's growing off-reserve population around round table meetings sponsored by
the…
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Whether urban-self government should recognize distinctive Native groups or
be "status-blind" will be a key issue in off-reserve constitutional development. And the debate promises to be long and hard.
More than 100 delegates met recently in Edmonton to discuss the needs of Canada's growing off-reserve population around round table meetings sponsored by
the…
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Whether urban-self government should recognize distinctive Native groups or
be "status-blind" will be a key issue in off-reserve constitutional development. And the debate promises to be long and hard.
More than 100 delegates met recently in Edmonton to discuss the needs of Canada's growing off-reserve population around round table meetings sponsored by
the…
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Whether urban-self government should recognize distinctive Native groups or
be "status-blind" will be a key issue in off-reserve constitutional development. And the debate promises to be long and hard.
More than 100 delegates met recently in Edmonton to discuss the needs of Canada's growing off-reserve population around round table meetings sponsored by
the…
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Peigan Lonefighter leader Milton Born With A Tooth believes all aboriginal peoples should guard against the diversion of waterways and developments which may affect the environment.
"All Indian people should be in the front lines against unnecessary development. We are a people connected to the rivers...water is our life, our ceremonies, our spirit.
"We should not…
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Peigan Lonefighter leader Milton Born With A Tooth believes all aboriginal peoples should guard against the diversion of waterways and developments which may affect the environment.
"All Indian people should be in the front lines against unnecessary development. We are a people connected to the rivers...water is our life, our ceremonies, our spirit.
"We should not…