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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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Guest Column
In the report To The Source, released by the Assembly of First Nations, there was a recommendation to now allow the charter to override aboriginal law. This has caused a flurry of protest from women's groups, civil libertarians and others. Several national print columnists have also subscribed to the view that Native leaders are off-side with this request.…
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Guest Column
In the report To The Source, released by the Assembly of First Nations, there was a recommendation to now allow the charter to override aboriginal law. This has caused a flurry of protest from women's groups, civil libertarians and others. Several national print columnists have also subscribed to the view that Native leaders are off-side with this request.…
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After more than a year of public pressure, Saskatchewan's inquiry into the death
of Cree trapper Leo Lachance at the hands of white supremacist Carney Nerland is underway.
And testimony arising from the first week of the summer-long investigation is likely confirming hard suspicions that there was more to the Lachance shooting than met the public eye.
Police…
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After more than a year of public pressure, Saskatchewan's inquiry into the death
of Cree trapper Leo Lachance at the hands of white supremacist Carney Nerland is underway.
And testimony arising from the first week of the summer-long investigation is likely confirming hard suspicions that there was more to the Lachance shooting than met the public eye.
Police…
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The rate of cervical cancer among Native women is six times higher than that of the general female population, says researchers at the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Kue Young said fewer Native women take pap smear tests to detect cervical cancer, which is linked with the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus.
As a result, the disease usually isn't detected in its…
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The rate of cervical cancer among Native women is six times higher than that of the general female population, says researchers at the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Kue Young said fewer Native women take pap smear tests to detect cervical cancer, which is linked with the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus.
As a result, the disease usually isn't detected in its…
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A federal government decision allowing completion of the Oldman River dam sparked a series of veiled threats by one of the dam's most outspoken opponents.
Milton Born With A Tooth said he will use any means he can to continue fighting the diversion of the river into a reservoir at the southern Alberta irrigation project.
"I'm not afraid," he said. "If that's what it…
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A federal government decision allowing completion of the Oldman River dam sparked a series of veiled threats by one of the dam's most outspoken opponents.
Milton Born With A Tooth said he will use any means he can to continue fighting the diversion of the river into a reservoir at the southern Alberta irrigation project.
"I'm not afraid," he said. "If that's what it…
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Ottawa will allow the Oldman River dam to proceed even though a federal environmental review recommended shutting down the $350-million mega-project.
"We are rejecting the option of decommissioning the dam," federal Transport Minister Jean Corbeil said in a media statement after the release of the review committee anti-dam report.
"We are confident, based on the…
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Ottawa will allow the Oldman River dam to proceed even though a federal environmental review recommended shutting down the $350-million mega-project.
"We are rejecting the option of decommissioning the dam," federal Transport Minister Jean Corbeil said in a media statement after the release of the review committee anti-dam report.
"We are confident, based on the…
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Alberta bands from the Treaty 6 and 8 regions have left the Assembly of First Nations in a dispute over how grand chief Ovide Mercredi is handling constitutional negotiations.
"Effectively immediately, we are no longer members of the Assembly of First Nations," officials from the Indian Association of Alberta said in a prepared statement.
"Neither the national chief…
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Alberta bands from the Treaty 6 and 8 regions have left the Assembly of First Nations in a dispute over how grand chief Ovide Mercredi is handling constitutional negotiations.
"Effectively immediately, we are no longer members of the Assembly of First Nations," officials from the Indian Association of Alberta said in a prepared statement.
"Neither the national chief…
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Native leaders walked away from last week's constitutional talks with a tentative deal on the recognition of the inherent right to self-government.
The agreement, which has enough support from the premiers to be accepted into the constitution, makes the inherent right legally enforceable on condition no court action is taken for three years.
Assembly of First…
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Native leaders walked away from last week's constitutional talks with a tentative deal on the recognition of the inherent right to self-government.
The agreement, which has enough support from the premiers to be accepted into the constitution, makes the inherent right legally enforceable on condition no court action is taken for three years.
Assembly of First…
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Carney Nerland refused to let a passer-by telephone an ambulance from his Prince Albert gun shop from the Native man shot by the white-power leader, an inquiry heard.
Kim Korroll, who was driving past Nerland's store just after the shooting of Leo Lachance, testified he saw the 48-year-old Cree trapper "go down violently" after being shot through the door.
"He went…