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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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OK, I'm confused. Maybe somebody out there can explain it to me. Canada, the great country that it is , gets very upset when Spanish trawlers invade what Canada considers to be "their territory" to fish for some fish nobody had every heard of called a turbot.
So as self-proclaimed "Custodians of the Fish Stocks," and to save the fishing industry in Eastern Canada, they…
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How does a boy growing up on a reserve in British Columbia become a member of the Senate of Canada? What seems at first glance a long an unlikely journey becomes after listening to Leonard Stephen Marchand's account, a natural process. As he puts it: "I always didn't like the way were living," Politics, however, was not his first love.
In spite of the rigors of his early…
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How does a boy growing up on a reserve in British Columbia become a member of the Senate of Canada? What seems at first glance a long an unlikely journey becomes after listening to Leonard Stephen Marchand's account, a natural process. As he puts it: "I always didn't like the way were living," Politics, however, was not his first love.
In spite of the rigors of his early…
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How does a boy growing up on a reserve in British Columbia become a member of the Senate of Canada? What seems at first glance a long an unlikely journey becomes after listening to Leonard Stephen Marchand's account, a natural process. As he puts it: "I always didn't like the way were living," Politics, however, was not his first love.
In spite of the rigors of his early…
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Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin was quoted in Windspeaker (April 1995) saying that he won't act unilaterally, but will involve Native Leaders from all across Canada: "I will ask them as I am asking you, to focus on the most archaic and objectionable provisions of the Indian Act."
I take this opportunity to accommodate the minster's suggestion for feedback concerning the…
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Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin was quoted in Windspeaker (April 1995) saying that he won't act unilaterally, but will involve Native Leaders from all across Canada: "I will ask them as I am asking you, to focus on the most archaic and objectionable provisions of the Indian Act."
I take this opportunity to accommodate the minster's suggestion for feedback concerning the…
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Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin was quoted in Windspeaker (April 1995) saying that he won't act unilaterally, but will involve Native Leaders from all across Canada: "I will ask them as I am asking you, to focus on the most archaic and objectionable provisions of the Indian Act."
I take this opportunity to accommodate the minster's suggestion for feedback concerning the…
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There's no doubt there's a problem on the mean streets of Canada's inner cities. Drug rings, violent crime, youth crime -- anyone who reads a paper is aware of it. Things are happening there that we only used to hear about from Detroit and New York.
So the Liberal government has decided to get tough with criminals. Whether Allan Rock's new gun law will help or not is…
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There's no doubt there's a problem on the mean streets of Canada's inner cities. Drug rings, violent crime, youth crime -- anyone who reads a paper is aware of it. Things are happening there that we only used to hear about from Detroit and New York.
So the Liberal government has decided to get tough with criminals. Whether Allan Rock's new gun law will help or not is…
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There's no doubt there's a problem on the mean streets of Canada's inner cities. Drug rings, violent crime, youth crime -- anyone who reads a paper is aware of it. Things are happening there that we only used to hear about from Detroit and New York.
So the Liberal government has decided to get tough with criminals. Whether Allan Rock's new gun law will help or not is…
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Gun-control laws designed to solve the southern urban problem of
escalating violent crime will turn the people of the North into
criminals, said Attawapiskat First Nation chief Ignace Gull.
The laws proposed by federal Justice Minister Allan Rock do not take
into consideration the needs and traditions of the people who live in
Canada's remote…
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Gun-control laws designed to solve the southern urban problem of
escalating violent crime will turn the people of the North into
criminals, said Attawapiskat First Nation chief Ignace Gull.
The laws proposed by federal Justice Minister Allan Rock do not take
into consideration the needs and traditions of the people who live in
Canada's remote…
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Gun-control laws designed to solve the southern urban problem of
escalating violent crime will turn the people of the North into
criminals, said Attawapiskat First Nation chief Ignace Gull.
The laws proposed by federal Justice Minister Allan Rock do not take
into consideration the needs and traditions of the people who live in
Canada's remote…
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In her dreams, Mary Ellen Turpel is a hawk soaring in an open blue sky
above the Canadian wilderness.
Soaring to great heights is something Turpel, Canada's most
accomplished Aboriginal lawyer, has done most of her 32 years.
Just check her curriculum vitae. Head legal negotiator at age 29, for
the Assembly of First Nations during the 1992 talks…
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Native leaders across the country are accusing the federal government
of orchestrating future self-government policies to suit their own
agenda.
"(The government isn't) getting the appropriate response from the fact
finder forums," says Saul Terry, president of the Union of B.C. Indian
Chiefs.
"... so (Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin)…