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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 Government of the NorthWest Territories has designed a program to encourage sterilization victims to come forward.
About 2,800 women were sterilized without their permission under the Sexual Sterilization Act between 1928 and 1972. Another 400 women were sterilized in British Columbia under the same law. The act was then repelled.
The procedure was performed if…
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The Government of the NorthWest Territories has designed a program to encourage sterilization victims to come forward.
About 2,800 women were sterilized without their permission under the Sexual Sterilization Act between 1928 and 1972. Another 400 women were sterilized in British Columbia under the same law. The act was then repelled.
The procedure was performed if…
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The Government of the NorthWest Territories has designed a program to encourage sterilization victims to come forward.
About 2,800 women were sterilized without their permission under the Sexual Sterilization Act between 1928 and 1972. Another 400 women were sterilized in British Columbia under the same law. The act was then repelled.
The procedure was performed if…
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After spending almost 10 years fighting rape and indecent assault charges, Roman Catholic Bishop Hubert O'Connor publicly confessed and apologized for his crimes on June 15.
The 70-year-old bishop, charged with sexually abusing an Aboriginal woman in a residential school, escaped criminal prosecution by agreeing to participate in a traditional Aboriginal healing circle.…
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After spending almost 10 years fighting rape and indecent assault charges, Roman Catholic Bishop Hubert O'Connor publicly confessed and apologized for his crimes on June 15.
The 70-year-old bishop, charged with sexually abusing an Aboriginal woman in a residential school, escaped criminal prosecution by agreeing to participate in a traditional Aboriginal healing circle.…
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After spending almost 10 years fighting rape and indecent assault charges, Roman Catholic Bishop Hubert O'Connor publicly confessed and apologized for his crimes on June 15.
The 70-year-old bishop, charged with sexually abusing an Aboriginal woman in a residential school, escaped criminal prosecution by agreeing to participate in a traditional Aboriginal healing circle.…
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First Nations people in Quebec refuse to accept the Quebec government's guarantee that a recent change on how tobacco taxes are collected in the province will not infringe on their rights.
Andre Corivelau, spokesperson for the Quebec minister of Finance, insists the change in the administration of the province's tobacco tax law is merely a way of ending tax evasion…
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First Nations people in Quebec refuse to accept the Quebec government's guarantee that a recent change on how tobacco taxes are collected in the province will not infringe on their rights.
Andre Corivelau, spokesperson for the Quebec minister of Finance, insists the change in the administration of the province's tobacco tax law is merely a way of ending tax evasion…
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First Nations people in Quebec refuse to accept the Quebec government's guarantee that a recent change on how tobacco taxes are collected in the province will not infringe on their rights.
Andre Corivelau, spokesperson for the Quebec minister of Finance, insists the change in the administration of the province's tobacco tax law is merely a way of ending tax evasion…
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Some residential school survivors say Canada's apology for physical and sexual abuse, supposedly a gesture of reconciliation to Indigenous people, has made their lives even harder.
For many, the dizzying landscape of complex choices surrounding the entire compensation issue - to sue or not to sue, negotiation and mediation versus litigation, class actions versus individual…
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Some residential school survivors say Canada's apology for physical and sexual abuse, supposedly a gesture of reconciliation to Indigenous people, has made their lives even harder.
For many, the dizzying landscape of complex choices surrounding the entire compensation issue - to sue or not to sue, negotiation and mediation versus litigation, class actions versus individual…
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Some residential school survivors say Canada's apology for physical and sexual abuse, supposedly a gesture of reconciliation to Indigenous people, has made their lives even harder.
For many, the dizzying landscape of complex choices surrounding the entire compensation issue - to sue or not to sue, negotiation and mediation versus litigation, class actions versus individual…
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The staff and contributors of Windspeaker, Canada's National Aboriginal News Source, have something to celebrate this month. Windspeaker has won first place for General Excellence in the monthly publications category at this year's Native American Journalists Association's annual assembly. The Circle, last year's winner, and Arizona Native Scene, won honorable mentions.
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The staff and contributors of Windspeaker, Canada's National Aboriginal News Source, have something to celebrate this month. Windspeaker has won first place for General Excellence in the monthly publications category at this year's Native American Journalists Association's annual assembly. The Circle, last year's winner, and Arizona Native Scene, won honorable mentions.
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The staff and contributors of Windspeaker, Canada's National Aboriginal News Source, have something to celebrate this month. Windspeaker has won first place for General Excellence in the monthly publications category at this year's Native American Journalists Association's annual assembly. The Circle, last year's winner, and Arizona Native Scene, won honorable mentions.
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