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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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Alberta Senator and Sawridge First Nation Chief Walter Twinn was a large factor in the push to appeal Bill C-31. Since the senator's death on Oct. 30, many questions remain about the continued support of the wealthy northern Alberta First Nation regarding the controversial issue.
Interview requests to the Sawridge band have not been answered as it attempts to re-structure…
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Alberta Senator and Sawridge First Nation Chief Walter Twinn was a large factor in the push to appeal Bill C-31. Since the senator's death on Oct. 30, many questions remain about the continued support of the wealthy northern Alberta First Nation regarding the controversial issue.
Interview requests to the Sawridge band have not been answered as it attempts to re-structure…
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Alberta Senator and Sawridge First Nation Chief Walter Twinn was a large factor in the push to appeal Bill C-31. Since the senator's death on Oct. 30, many questions remain about the continued support of the wealthy northern Alberta First Nation regarding the controversial issue.
Interview requests to the Sawridge band have not been answered as it attempts to re-structure…
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The federal government is not willing to accept a Federal Court decision which recognized the rights of the Mohawks of Akwesasne to cross the Canada-United States border without paying customs duties.
On Sept. 25, lawyers working for the Ministry of National Revenue filed a notice of appeal of Judge William P. McKeown's 105-page decision in favor of Mohawk Chief Mike…
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The federal government is not willing to accept a Federal Court decision which recognized the rights of the Mohawks of Akwesasne to cross the Canada-United States border without paying customs duties.
On Sept. 25, lawyers working for the Ministry of National Revenue filed a notice of appeal of Judge William P. McKeown's 105-page decision in favor of Mohawk Chief Mike…
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The federal government is not willing to accept a Federal Court decision which recognized the rights of the Mohawks of Akwesasne to cross the Canada-United States border without paying customs duties.
On Sept. 25, lawyers working for the Ministry of National Revenue filed a notice of appeal of Judge William P. McKeown's 105-page decision in favor of Mohawk Chief Mike…
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An Ontario radio station owner tried to invest almost $2 million towards establishing a national Aboriginal radio network but he couldn't get a broadcasting license from the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission.
Doug Bingley, controlling shareholder of Barrie's Rock 95 FM, said he learned a lot about the frustrations that Aboriginal people encounter when…
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It took five years, more than $50 million and countless hours to produce the five-volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Never has the Aboriginal reality in Canada been so well articulated.
Let it be said that the report is so unwieldy that any criticism must be done on what amounts to a glance.
A report such as this one comes out of the real…
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It took five years, more than $50 million and countless hours to produce the five-volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Never has the Aboriginal reality in Canada been so well articulated.
Let it be said that the report is so unwieldy that any criticism must be done on what amounts to a glance.
A report such as this one comes out of the real…
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It took five years, more than $50 million and countless hours to produce the five-volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Never has the Aboriginal reality in Canada been so well articulated.
Let it be said that the report is so unwieldy that any criticism must be done on what amounts to a glance.
A report such as this one comes out of the real…
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The Swan Hills sit in central northern Alberta, and water from the hills flows down through the traditional and reserve lands of a dozen or so First Nations. In the centre of the Swan Hills is the misleadingly renamed Swan Hills Treatment Centre, which sounds more like a mental health facility than what it really is, a hazardous waste treatment centre (as it used to be called).…
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The Swan Hills sit in central northern Alberta, and water from the hills flows down through the traditional and reserve lands of a dozen or so First Nations. In the centre of the Swan Hills is the misleadingly renamed Swan Hills Treatment Centre, which sounds more like a mental health facility than what it really is, a hazardous waste treatment centre (as it used to be called).…
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The Swan Hills sit in central northern Alberta, and water from the hills flows down through the traditional and reserve lands of a dozen or so First Nations. In the centre of the Swan Hills is the misleadingly renamed Swan Hills Treatment Centre, which sounds more like a mental health facility than what it really is, a hazardous waste treatment centre (as it used to be called).…
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Inserted into this issue of Windspeaker, you'll find two supplements. We consider them so important that we're taking this space (where we usually get the opportunity to correct the world in 300 words) to explain why we think they're important. The two special sections are our third Classroom Edition and our supplement to celebrate the fourth National Aboriginal Achievement…
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Inserted into this issue of Windspeaker, you'll find two supplements. We consider them so important that we're taking this space (where we usually get the opportunity to correct the world in 300 words) to explain why we think they're important. The two special sections are our third Classroom Edition and our supplement to celebrate the fourth National Aboriginal Achievement…