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Solutions impractical

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It took five years, more than $50 million and countless hours to produce the five-volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Never has the Aboriginal reality in Canada been so well articulated.

Let it be said that the report is so unwieldy that any criticism must be done on what amounts to a glance.

A report such as this one comes out of the real world, and must be implemented in it. We don't believe that many of the hopeful solutions are based on an understanding of what actually can come to pass over the next 20 years.

Solutions impractical

Page 6

It took five years, more than $50 million and countless hours to produce the five-volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Never has the Aboriginal reality in Canada been so well articulated.

Let it be said that the report is so unwieldy that any criticism must be done on what amounts to a glance.

A report such as this one comes out of the real world, and must be implemented in it. We don't believe that many of the hopeful solutions are based on an understanding of what actually can come to pass over the next 20 years.

Solutions impractical

Page 6

It took five years, more than $50 million and countless hours to produce the five-volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Never has the Aboriginal reality in Canada been so well articulated.

Let it be said that the report is so unwieldy that any criticism must be done on what amounts to a glance.

A report such as this one comes out of the real world, and must be implemented in it. We don't believe that many of the hopeful solutions are based on an understanding of what actually can come to pass over the next 20 years.

Alberta should put people before profits

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The Swan Hills sit in central northern Alberta, and water from the hills flows down through the traditional and reserve lands of a dozen or so First Nations. In the centre of the Swan Hills is the misleadingly renamed Swan Hills Treatment Centre, which sounds more like a mental health facility than what it really is, a hazardous waste treatment centre (as it used to be called).

Alberta should put people before profits

Page 6

The Swan Hills sit in central northern Alberta, and water from the hills flows down through the traditional and reserve lands of a dozen or so First Nations. In the centre of the Swan Hills is the misleadingly renamed Swan Hills Treatment Centre, which sounds more like a mental health facility than what it really is, a hazardous waste treatment centre (as it used to be called).

Alberta should put people before profits

Page 6

The Swan Hills sit in central northern Alberta, and water from the hills flows down through the traditional and reserve lands of a dozen or so First Nations. In the centre of the Swan Hills is the misleadingly renamed Swan Hills Treatment Centre, which sounds more like a mental health facility than what it really is, a hazardous waste treatment centre (as it used to be called).

Mission Possible

PAge 6

Inserted into this issue of Windspeaker, you'll find two supplements. We consider them so important that we're taking this space (where we usually get the opportunity to correct the world in 300 words) to explain why we think they're important. The two special sections are our third Classroom Edition and our supplement to celebrate the fourth National Aboriginal Achievement Awards.

It seems singularly appropriate that, this year, they're being published in the same month.

Mission Possible

PAge 6

Inserted into this issue of Windspeaker, you'll find two supplements. We consider them so important that we're taking this space (where we usually get the opportunity to correct the world in 300 words) to explain why we think they're important. The two special sections are our third Classroom Edition and our supplement to celebrate the fourth National Aboriginal Achievement Awards.

It seems singularly appropriate that, this year, they're being published in the same month.

Mission Possible

PAge 6

Inserted into this issue of Windspeaker, you'll find two supplements. We consider them so important that we're taking this space (where we usually get the opportunity to correct the world in 300 words) to explain why we think they're important. The two special sections are our third Classroom Edition and our supplement to celebrate the fourth National Aboriginal Achievement Awards.

It seems singularly appropriate that, this year, they're being published in the same month.

Eagle feather held aloft

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It's hard to figure what was going on in a security guard's imagination when he considered an eagle feather a "potentially dangerous weapon."

It's an incident that the security guards at the House of Commons would rather forget. And, despite the round of apologies from the guard, the Speaker of the House and the Minister of Indian Affairs, the fact that a young Mi'kmaw woman was barred from entering the House of Commons because she carried an eagle feather is still a cause for concern.