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Lawrence Ghostkeeper spent almost half his life drinking and doing drugs.

He started sneaking drinks at the age of 13 and ended up in a juvenile detention centre at 14. He ran away at 16 and within a month he was arrested for breaking and entering, which led to his first six-month sentence in an adult jail.

When he got out, he went back to his old ways of drinking and doing drugs and committing robberies and break and enters.

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Lawrence Ghostkeeper spent almost half his life drinking and doing drugs.

He started sneaking drinks at the age of 13 and ended up in a juvenile detention centre at 14. He ran away at 16 and within a month he was arrested for breaking and entering, which led to his first six-month sentence in an adult jail.

When he got out, he went back to his old ways of drinking and doing drugs and committing robberies and break and enters.

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Lawrence Ghostkeeper spent almost half his life drinking and doing drugs.

He started sneaking drinks at the age of 13 and ended up in a juvenile detention centre at 14. He ran away at 16 and within a month he was arrested for breaking and entering, which led to his first six-month sentence in an adult jail.

When he got out, he went back to his old ways of drinking and doing drugs and committing robberies and break and enters.

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Maggie Hodgson is quitting smoking.

This will be "about the 50th time," the executive director of the Nechi Institute

has tried to quit, but Hodgson says this time will be different. This time she has her usual resolve, but she also has another, perhaps stronger incentive.

Hodgson has just been signed on as a member of Health and Welfare Canada's advisory committee on Aboriginals and Tobacco Use which will seek the ways and means to help Natives quit smoking.

The time has come, says Hodgson, to "walk my talk."

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Maggie Hodgson is quitting smoking.

This will be "about the 50th time," the executive director of the Nechi Institute

has tried to quit, but Hodgson says this time will be different. This time she has her usual resolve, but she also has another, perhaps stronger incentive.

Hodgson has just been signed on as a member of Health and Welfare Canada's advisory committee on Aboriginals and Tobacco Use which will seek the ways and means to help Natives quit smoking.

The time has come, says Hodgson, to "walk my talk."

Page 13

Maggie Hodgson is quitting smoking.

This will be "about the 50th time," the executive director of the Nechi Institute

has tried to quit, but Hodgson says this time will be different. This time she has her usual resolve, but she also has another, perhaps stronger incentive.

Hodgson has just been signed on as a member of Health and Welfare Canada's advisory committee on Aboriginals and Tobacco Use which will seek the ways and means to help Natives quit smoking.

The time has come, says Hodgson, to "walk my talk."

Page 13

Maggie Hodgson is quitting smoking.

This will be "about the 50th time," the executive director of the Nechi Institute

has tried to quit, but Hodgson says this time will be different. This time she has her usual resolve, but she also has another, perhaps stronger incentive.

Hodgson has just been signed on as a member of Health and Welfare Canada's advisory committee on Aboriginals and Tobacco Use which will seek the ways and means to help Natives quit smoking.

The time has come, says Hodgson, to "walk my talk."

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Will Johnson has been arrested 136 times. Each time, he was drunk.

"If I didn't drink, I wouldn't have a criminal record today," he says.

Many of the charges were simply for being intoxicated in a public place but quite

a few were for assault. In 1972 he was convicted of manslaughter. The sentence was suspended. Two years later he was charged with attempted murder.

It's quite a past to overcome, but 20 years after his manslaughter conviction, Johnson is dry and holding down a good job at a Winnipeg car lot.

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Will Johnson has been arrested 136 times. Each time, he was drunk.

"If I didn't drink, I wouldn't have a criminal record today," he says.

Many of the charges were simply for being intoxicated in a public place but quite

a few were for assault. In 1972 he was convicted of manslaughter. The sentence was suspended. Two years later he was charged with attempted murder.

It's quite a past to overcome, but 20 years after his manslaughter conviction, Johnson is dry and holding down a good job at a Winnipeg car lot.

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Will Johnson has been arrested 136 times. Each time, he was drunk.

"If I didn't drink, I wouldn't have a criminal record today," he says.

Many of the charges were simply for being intoxicated in a public place but quite

a few were for assault. In 1972 he was convicted of manslaughter. The sentence was suspended. Two years later he was charged with attempted murder.

It's quite a past to overcome, but 20 years after his manslaughter conviction, Johnson is dry and holding down a good job at a Winnipeg car lot.