For the second straight year many of the country’s top Aboriginal teenaged hockey players will be deciding national bragging rights in Saskatoon.

The National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) are scheduled for May 7 through 12. All matches will be held at Jemini, a Saskatoon-based four-pad facility.

Sixteen teams representing eight provinces, territories or regions will compete at the tournament, which will include both female and male divisions.

Did you know that Aboriginal Canadian or Native American students between the ages of nine and 11 years old could win free tuition to Space Camp just by sending in a short 30 second video and telling why they want to go?

Did you know that if you won one of 12 scholarships for Aboriginal or Native American students you will be invited to be an extra on a major box office family-oriented feature film about Space Camp?

The Northwest Territories is taking the lead in educating its students about Indian residential schools. N.W.T. Deputy Premier Jackson Lafferty accepted the historical report They Came for the Children from Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Marie Wilson and pledged to use it as part of the school curriculum.

Over the past decade, North America and western Europe have seen an alarming resurgence of bedbugs in homes, university dormitories, apartments and hotels.  Although the reason for the proliferation of bedbugs is not clear, some attribute this to the increase in international travel, use of narrower spectrum insecticides targeting other insect pests (that don’t work on bedbugs) and resistance of these parasites to pesticides.

Artist—Robbie Antone's Blues Machine
Song—Red Road Blues
Album—Red Road Blues

The first days of February 2012 was a special time for blues out of Canada and Aboriginal directed music.

Artist—Jimmy & The Sleepers
Song—Devil In Me
Album—Self-titled EP

The first days of February 2012 was a special time for blues out of Canada and Aboriginal directed music.

Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?
Wesley French: Honesty.

W: What is it that really makes you mad?
W.F.: Injustice.

W: When are you at your happiest?
W.F.: When I’m with my family.

W: What one word best describes you when you are at your worst?
W.F.: Manic.

W: What one person do you most admire and why?
W.F.: Hunter S Thompson. He tried to tell the truth. His words sent me on a path of discovery. He defined our culture but affected it as well. For good or ill he became more than a man, but a force.

Members of the Musqueam First Nation are embroiled in talks with a Vancouver condo developer, the province and the city following a dispute over a parcel of land where protesters say ancestral remains were unearthed.

In the early morning hours of March 12, about 50 Musqueam band members gathered at the 1300 block of Southwest Marine Drive demanding that the developer of the South Vancouver property call off construction after workers discovered intact human remains on the land late in January.

In its interim report released Feb. 24, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended that the federal government ensure the commission had “adequate funds to complete its mandate on time.”

But there has been no formal request made for additional funding.

While the TRC has been given another year to accomplish its tasks, additional funding has not been received and getting additional dollars will not be an easy task.

The “general language” used by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its recently released interim report is a disappointment to Clement Chartier, president of the Métis National Council.

“The report itself speaks in general terms. When one reads it, one would not think that Métis generally were excluded (from the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement),” said Chartier. “Canadians, I don’t think, would understand the specifics of this.”