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Video highlighting Lubicon struggle hits TV

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The Toronto-based rock group Syren is using the Lubicon land rights struggle as the basis for a video now appearing on Canadian television.

"The Lubicon case is the most blatant example of human rights violations in the country and so little is known about it," said Syren singer Lea Harper in an interview from Toronto.

Let Them Live, which is playing on the MuchMusic cable network, was directed by Ed Bianchi, a Toronto film-maker and Lubicon activist. It features scenes from Bianchi's hour-long Lubicon documentary of the same name.

Video highlighting Lubicon struggle hits TV

Page 24

The Toronto-based rock group Syren is using the Lubicon land rights struggle as the basis for a video now appearing on Canadian television.

"The Lubicon case is the most blatant example of human rights violations in the country and so little is known about it," said Syren singer Lea Harper in an interview from Toronto.

Let Them Live, which is playing on the MuchMusic cable network, was directed by Ed Bianchi, a Toronto film-maker and Lubicon activist. It features scenes from Bianchi's hour-long Lubicon documentary of the same name.

Youth determined to continue schooling

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Students sat patiently in an Edmonton conference hall foyer both anticipating and dreading the next round of workshops aimed at making them more productive adults.

They all took the waiting in stride.

"I know it's important -- this conference and what they're trying to do," confided 13-year-old Heart Lake School seventh-grader Curtis Cardinal. "But when I go out in the real world, I'm going to play ball -- basketball or baseball, or something."

Youth determined to continue schooling

Page 20

Students sat patiently in an Edmonton conference hall foyer both anticipating and dreading the next round of workshops aimed at making them more productive adults.

They all took the waiting in stride.

"I know it's important -- this conference and what they're trying to do," confided 13-year-old Heart Lake School seventh-grader Curtis Cardinal. "But when I go out in the real world, I'm going to play ball -- basketball or baseball, or something."

Writing play reconnects authors with heritage

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Mother tongue is a play that is both collaborative theatre and performance art.

It explores the unique and person stories of two women and their struggle with cultural identity.

The richness of story-telling is used as a vehicle to explore the parallels and contrasts between the Metis and Scots cultures: the legacy of the two artists.

It explores their struggle between childhood traditions versus society and its environment, and the fight towards reclaiming personal identity as grown women within their own cultures.

Writing play reconnects authors with heritage

Page 17

Mother tongue is a play that is both collaborative theatre and performance art.

It explores the unique and person stories of two women and their struggle with cultural identity.

The richness of story-telling is used as a vehicle to explore the parallels and contrasts between the Metis and Scots cultures: the legacy of the two artists.

It explores their struggle between childhood traditions versus society and its environment, and the fight towards reclaiming personal identity as grown women within their own cultures.

Metis woman takes aim at federal seat

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When the New Democrats put out the call for more women, more Natives and more visible minority candidates in the next federal election, Colleen Glenn thought they were calling her.

And they were. On April 23 23, the Metis woman was nominated as the ND candidate for the federal riding of Edmonton Southwest.

"The party really wants people like me - Native, a woman, a single parent - people who are not being heard from," Glenn said in an interview following her uncontested nomination.