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Campaign for sobriety growing yearly

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Some might call it the little campaign that grew.

Hundreds of communities across Canada celebrated National Addictions Awareness Week with dances, talent shows, powwows and open houses.

The five-year-old campaign has grown in leaps and bounds since 1987, when

a handful of communities agreed to set aside the third week in November for activities promoting a sober lifestyle.

Campaign for sobriety growing yearly

Page 7

Some might call it the little campaign that grew.

Hundreds of communities across Canada celebrated National Addictions Awareness Week with dances, talent shows, powwows and open houses.

The five-year-old campaign has grown in leaps and bounds since 1987, when

a handful of communities agreed to set aside the third week in November for activities promoting a sober lifestyle.

Campaign for sobriety growing yearly

Page 7

Some might call it the little campaign that grew.

Hundreds of communities across Canada celebrated National Addictions Awareness Week with dances, talent shows, powwows and open houses.

The five-year-old campaign has grown in leaps and bounds since 1987, when

a handful of communities agreed to set aside the third week in November for activities promoting a sober lifestyle.

Campaign for sobriety growing yearly

Page 7

Some might call it the little campaign that grew.

Hundreds of communities across Canada celebrated National Addictions Awareness Week with dances, talent shows, powwows and open houses.

The five-year-old campaign has grown in leaps and bounds since 1987, when

a handful of communities agreed to set aside the third week in November for activities promoting a sober lifestyle.

Self-government undermined by negative publicity

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Pikiskwe

The Charlottetown Accord has come and gone. Canadians across this country,

for whatever reasons, have clearly rejected the proposals. The debates are over, but the effects of the arguments will continue to be felt in this country for a long time.

What I found most disturbing about the debates was the lack of confidence some sectors of Native and non-Native society have in Native self-government.

Newspapers, television and radio carried some pretty strong messages against self-government.

Police power being misused

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In a more perfect world, the police are in place to protect society from its criminal element. This, however, is not a perfect world.

And a recent court decision in Ottawa and police actions in Yellowknife have served notice that police can and will use their legal power to protect themselves from the public they serve and harass citizens leading their lives within the law.