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Oki. How is everyone, in this slow-to-thaw spring? A friend of mine, Joanne, had a good point about this 1997 spring. She said that Mother Earth and Old Man Winter are having an affair, and they don't want to part ways. Actually, I can't say that it's only happening in Alberta - I heard that Manitoba was another place they'd taken a liking to.

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Oki. How is everyone, in this slow-to-thaw spring? A friend of mine, Joanne, had a good point about this 1997 spring. She said that Mother Earth and Old Man Winter are having an affair, and they don't want to part ways. Actually, I can't say that it's only happening in Alberta - I heard that Manitoba was another place they'd taken a liking to.

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Chief Walter Twinn, on behalf of the Sawridge Band and First Nation and its members, is suing the Town of Slave Lake, Northwestern Utilities Limited, as well as the federal and provincial governments, for more than $5 billion. This was revealed by a statement of claim registered with the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in Edmonton.

"It's really just a notice to negotiate" an agreement for land that's owed to the band, he said. "The town has owed us land for 25 years, and so has the province, and we just filed [the court documents] to give notice."

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Chief Walter Twinn, on behalf of the Sawridge Band and First Nation and its members, is suing the Town of Slave Lake, Northwestern Utilities Limited, as well as the federal and provincial governments, for more than $5 billion. This was revealed by a statement of claim registered with the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in Edmonton.

"It's really just a notice to negotiate" an agreement for land that's owed to the band, he said. "The town has owed us land for 25 years, and so has the province, and we just filed [the court documents] to give notice."

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Chief Walter Twinn, on behalf of the Sawridge Band and First Nation and its members, is suing the Town of Slave Lake, Northwestern Utilities Limited, as well as the federal and provincial governments, for more than $5 billion. This was revealed by a statement of claim registered with the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in Edmonton.

"It's really just a notice to negotiate" an agreement for land that's owed to the band, he said. "The town has owed us land for 25 years, and so has the province, and we just filed [the court documents] to give notice."

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The Saddle Lake Warriors fell at the final hurdle to the North Eastern Alberta Junior "B" Hockey League champion Lloydminster Bandits, losing games five and six of the best-of-seven final by scores of 5-4 and 6-5. The Bandits had taken a two-game lead with wins of 9-6 and 4-3 in the first two games, but the Warriors stormed back into it with a huge 8-1 win in game three and a 6-3 victory in game four.

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The Saddle Lake Warriors fell at the final hurdle to the North Eastern Alberta Junior "B" Hockey League champion Lloydminster Bandits, losing games five and six of the best-of-seven final by scores of 5-4 and 6-5. The Bandits had taken a two-game lead with wins of 9-6 and 4-3 in the first two games, but the Warriors stormed back into it with a huge 8-1 win in game three and a 6-3 victory in game four.

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The Saddle Lake Warriors fell at the final hurdle to the North Eastern Alberta Junior "B" Hockey League champion Lloydminster Bandits, losing games five and six of the best-of-seven final by scores of 5-4 and 6-5. The Bandits had taken a two-game lead with wins of 9-6 and 4-3 in the first two games, but the Warriors stormed back into it with a huge 8-1 win in game three and a 6-3 victory in game four.

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History was made March 7 as the Kapawe'no First Nation in Grouard became the first First Nation in Alberta to operate a First Nations drug and alcohol treatment centre. The agreement, signed by representatives from the federal government's Medical Services Branch in Edmonton, the Kapown Centre and the Kapawe'no First Nations in front of about 50 band members in the Kapawe'no hall, gives the band control over the Kapown Rehabilitation Centre, a 30-bed residential centre for those suffering from drug and alcohol addictions.

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History was made March 7 as the Kapawe'no First Nation in Grouard became the first First Nation in Alberta to operate a First Nations drug and alcohol treatment centre. The agreement, signed by representatives from the federal government's Medical Services Branch in Edmonton, the Kapown Centre and the Kapawe'no First Nations in front of about 50 band members in the Kapawe'no hall, gives the band control over the Kapown Rehabilitation Centre, a 30-bed residential centre for those suffering from drug and alcohol addictions.