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The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN), which represents about 8,000 nurses across the province, has become the latest group to sign a partnership agreement with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) and the provincial government's Aboriginal Employment Development Program (AEDP).

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The list of Aboriginal business education programs offered by the University of Saskatchewan's College of Commerce will soon be expanded, with a new masters of business administration (MBA) in Indigenous management program starting up in September.

Indigenous management is one of five areas of specialization available to students in the college's revamped MBA program. The other areas of study are agribusiness, biotechnology management, health services management, and international business.

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Each yea,,more than 1,300 Canadians do not survive drinking and driving accidents. Organizers of the Canadian Youth Against Impaired Driving (CYAID) 13th annual conference collected 1,300 pairs of shoes to bring home the point -don't drink and drive. Over 600 students met in Regina, March 20 to 22, chanting "friends don't let friends drive drunk" so loudly that their message should carry back to their homes across Canada, from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.

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For the third consecutive year since the inception of the Lawrence Weenie Cup for 35-and-older players in North Battleford, Louis Gardiner has been on the winning team. And although it's been 30 years since he played in the Western Hockey League, the 47-year old still possesses some of the skills that took him to the highest level of junior hockey.

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The third annual Lawrence Weenie Cup was held March 27 to 29 in North Battleford, hosting 16 teams made up of players 35 years and older. For the first time, four of those squads were for those 40-and-older.

"Partly due to the demographics, a lot of older hockey players are still active and now we're seeing them with a (continued) passion for hockey," said Milt Tootoosis, the tournament's co-ordinator and Lawrence Weenie's son.

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Two goals in the final eight minutes turned the tide for the Flying Dust Young Guns, allowing them to secure the championship in the 39th annual All Native Hockey Tournament, held in North Battleford March 28 to 30.

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The final report of the Advisory Group on Suicide Prevention has been released, and is available online on the Health Canada Web site.

Acting on What We Know: Preventing Youth Suicide in First Nations puts forward a number of short-term and long- term recommendations aimed at addressing the high suicide rate among First Nations youth, which is five to six times higher than the rate among the general Canadian population.

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Thousands of women die every year from breast cancer. A woman has a one-in-nine chance of having breast cancer sometime in her lifetime.

Who's at risk?

Your risk of getting breast cancer increases as you get older or if your mother, sister, or maternal grandmother had breast cancer. Sometimes the family risk is inherited in a breast cancer gene called BRCA1 and BRCA2. There is a test for these genes, however, it is not practical to test all women as only a small number of women with breast cancer have BRCA1 or BRCA2.

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Stephen LaRose, Sage Writer, Standing Buffalo, Dakota Nation

The Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation has ratified a land claim deal that resolves a six-decade long grievance against the federal government.

In a March 1 plebiscite, band members voted to accept a $3.6 million settlement, resolving a dispute between the First Nation and the federal government that began in the early 1940s.

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Saskatchewan Liberal Member of Parliament Rick Laliberte says he will propose an amendment to the First Nations governance act (FNGA) after the consultation committee wraps up its cross-country tour and the bill returns to Parliament for second and third reading.

"The amendment is the definition of First Nations," he said during an interview on March 10. "And the definition of First Nations that I will be presenting will be to try and represent all the actual nations that do exist in Canada-by name."