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A multi-media CD-Rom project is intended to help Elders in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Ont. pass the ancient Ojibway language and culture on to their grandchildren.

Elders felt powerless as English replaced Ojibway as the first language of local children over the past 20 years, said Roger Fobister, director of education for the Grassy Narrows Education Authority. With the new CD-Rom installed on the Sakatcheway-Anishinabe school computer network, Elders are in position to speak daily to 250 students with the click of a mouse on a computer icon.

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A multi-media CD-Rom project is intended to help Elders in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Ont. pass the ancient Ojibway language and culture on to their grandchildren.

Elders felt powerless as English replaced Ojibway as the first language of local children over the past 20 years, said Roger Fobister, director of education for the Grassy Narrows Education Authority. With the new CD-Rom installed on the Sakatcheway-Anishinabe school computer network, Elders are in position to speak daily to 250 students with the click of a mouse on a computer icon.

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Workfare became a reality in Ontario on New Year's Day.

From now on, welfare recipients in the province will have to work for their benefits, performing a variety of public service or make-work jobs in programs that will be administered locally.

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Workfare became a reality in Ontario on New Year's Day.

From now on, welfare recipients in the province will have to work for their benefits, performing a variety of public service or make-work jobs in programs that will be administered locally.

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Workfare became a reality in Ontario on New Year's Day.

From now on, welfare recipients in the province will have to work for their benefits, performing a variety of public service or make-work jobs in programs that will be administered locally.

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It's going to be hard to keep Terry Littlechild Muskwa home on the rez now that he's seen the bright lights of Paree.

The 22-year-old Hobbema band member returned home to Alberta late this fall after spending almost a year as a Disney Corp. employee at Disneyland Paris' Wild West Show.

"It was a great experience," he said.

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It's going to be hard to keep Terry Littlechild Muskwa home on the rez now that he's seen the bright lights of Paree.

The 22-year-old Hobbema band member returned home to Alberta late this fall after spending almost a year as a Disney Corp. employee at Disneyland Paris' Wild West Show.

"It was a great experience," he said.

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It's going to be hard to keep Terry Littlechild Muskwa home on the rez now that he's seen the bright lights of Paree.

The 22-year-old Hobbema band member returned home to Alberta late this fall after spending almost a year as a Disney Corp. employee at Disneyland Paris' Wild West Show.

"It was a great experience," he said.

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Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Phil Fontaine travelled to the steel and concrete heart of corporate Canada recently, but the message he delivered was aimed squarely back at Ottawa.

During an address at a Royal Bank symposium on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Fontaine demanded an apology from the federal government for the widespread abuse inflicted on Native people in the residential school system.

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Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Phil Fontaine travelled to the steel and concrete heart of corporate Canada recently, but the message he delivered was aimed squarely back at Ottawa.

During an address at a Royal Bank symposium on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Fontaine demanded an apology from the federal government for the widespread abuse inflicted on Native people in the residential school system.