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Preventing diabetes by creating healthier communities will be the focus of a conference being held in Saskatoon from February 12 to 14, 2002.

Building Better Tomorrows- Work Together on the Determinants of Health, is a conference being organized by the Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre, funded jointly by Health Canada and Saskatchewan Health.

The conference is being held to increase people's understanding of population health promotion approaches, with a specific emphasis on how such approaches can help in the prevention of diabetes.

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Preventing diabetes by creating healthier communities will be the focus of a conference being held in Saskatoon from February 12 to 14, 2002.

Building Better Tomorrows- Work Together on the Determinants of Health, is a conference being organized by the Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre, funded jointly by Health Canada and Saskatchewan Health.

The conference is being held to increase people's understanding of population health promotion approaches, with a specific emphasis on how such approaches can help in the prevention of diabetes.

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Preventing diabetes by creating healthier communities will be the focus of a conference being held in Saskatoon from February 12 to 14, 2002.

Building Better Tomorrows- Work Together on the Determinants of Health, is a conference being organized by the Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre, funded jointly by Health Canada and Saskatchewan Health.

The conference is being held to increase people's understanding of population health promotion approaches, with a specific emphasis on how such approaches can help in the prevention of diabetes.

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Preventing diabetes by creating healthier communities will be the focus of a conference being held in Saskatoon from February 12 to 14, 2002.

Building Better Tomorrows- Work Together on the Determinants of Health, is a conference being organized by the Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre, funded jointly by Health Canada and Saskatchewan Health.

The conference is being held to increase people's understanding of population health promotion approaches, with a specific emphasis on how such approaches can help in the prevention of diabetes.

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Relentless and potentially devastating addictions can shake a family tree and cause havoc in a community.

Canada's 2001 National Addiction Awareness Week (NAAW), Nov. 18 to 24, is a time for Canadians to unite and fight against this common enemy.

Families suffering and learning to cope with the challenges of fetal alcohol syndrome/fetal alcohol effects, a result of substance abuse during pregnancy, will be honored during this year's event.

Interim event co-ordinator Jean Fulkner said the effects are among the "very tangible results of alcohol abuse."

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Relentless and potentially devastating addictions can shake a family tree and cause havoc in a community.

Canada's 2001 National Addiction Awareness Week (NAAW), Nov. 18 to 24, is a time for Canadians to unite and fight against this common enemy.

Families suffering and learning to cope with the challenges of fetal alcohol syndrome/fetal alcohol effects, a result of substance abuse during pregnancy, will be honored during this year's event.

Interim event co-ordinator Jean Fulkner said the effects are among the "very tangible results of alcohol abuse."

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Relentless and potentially devastating addictions can shake a family tree and cause havoc in a community.

Canada's 2001 National Addiction Awareness Week (NAAW), Nov. 18 to 24, is a time for Canadians to unite and fight against this common enemy.

Families suffering and learning to cope with the challenges of fetal alcohol syndrome/fetal alcohol effects, a result of substance abuse during pregnancy, will be honored during this year's event.

Interim event co-ordinator Jean Fulkner said the effects are among the "very tangible results of alcohol abuse."

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As November 11 rolls around and the nation gets ready to honor its living and dead war veterans, First Nation veterans are still waiting for the same compensation from the federal government that their non-Aboriginal colleagues received over 50 years ago.

"We've got nothing concrete in the sense of, they gave us offers, but they're very low, " said Grand Chief Howard Anderson, who has been leading the effort for First Nations veterans to receive their outstanding compensation.

Anderson can see the tactics that are being used to thwart their efforts.

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A new Web site dedicated to First Nations Veterans in Saskatchewan is up and running in time for Remembrance Day.

The site, Remembering Our Heroes: Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans, was created by the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre in partnership with the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association and Canada's Digital Collections.

The Web site contains interviews with and photographs of a number of First Nations veterans, as well as articles on Indian treaties, the Indian Act, and the federal government's treatment of First Nations veterans.

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A new Web site dedicated to First Nations Veterans in Saskatchewan is up and running in time for Remembrance Day.

The site, Remembering Our Heroes: Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans, was created by the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre in partnership with the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association and Canada's Digital Collections.

The Web site contains interviews with and photographs of a number of First Nations veterans, as well as articles on Indian treaties, the Indian Act, and the federal government's treatment of First Nations veterans.