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Editorial

You know what's unreasonable?

Cultural genocide is unreasonable. Pretending to be a modern, post-colonial nation while still practising colonialism is unreasonable.

Let us clear up a couple of things about Canada's history.

In the beginning...of Canada... the people of Europe moved into somebody else's homeland and took everything they could get their hands on. They relied on the kindness of the people whose home this land was and had been for thousands and thousands of years, and took their help to survive and flourish.

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It was slow to build but it is now clear that the best is yet to come for one business owned and operated by Ric and Rose Richardson.

The Metis couple has now finished their second year in business at Keewatin

Junction Station, a restaurant and museum operation that has received accolades for creativity from many people, including Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert and Metis Nation president Clem Chartier.

The business is situated in Green Lake, population 500, Saskatchewan's third oldest community located 50 km east of Meadow Lake.

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There's a new set of videotapes on the market created to get people off their couches and involved in a more active, healthier lifestyle as a way to control or prevent diabetes.

But what makes these tapes different from all other exercise videos already out there is that they were made by Native people for Native people and are being given away, free of charge.

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Established in 1996, the White Buffalo Youth Inhalant Treatment Centre is a nationally recognized residential facility that treats youth who have addictions to solvents. Located on Sturgeon Lake First Nation, the centre is open to youth 12 to 17 from across Canada who come to take part in a six-month residential program.

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The Metis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan Incorporated (MACSI) is hosting its sixth annual Sober Walk in Regina on Nov. 21 and organizers are excited.

"This walk gets bigger every year and the participation from the community has been phenomenal," said Albert Delaire, minister of health for the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan and a MACSI staff member.

Delaire said the walk will begin at the Regina detox centre at Victoria and Retallack Streets at 12:15 p.m.

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Phillip Favel has quite the job ahead of him. The 81-year-old Second World War veteran is the new Grand Chief of the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association (SFNVA). Favel was elected grand chief on April 30, taking over from former grand chief Howard Anderson.

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For most of us, what we know about D-Day we learned from reading books or watching movies. For George Horse, that knowledge was earned first hand, on the beaches of Normandy.

Horse was a member of the Elite Sapper Battalion, a Canadian regiment of combat engineers who helped to smash the grip of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. He survived the horrors of the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944, but his military career ended that October, when he was severely wounded on the front in Holland.

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The Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) wants to know how it can attract more Aboriginal students and staff, and is looking to the province's Aboriginal community for the answers.

The institute is consulting with Aboriginal groups within SIAST and across the province about how to better meet the needs of Aboriginal students and staff.

The consultation process was officially launched with a sacred bundle ceremony conducted as part of SIAST's annual Aboriginal student conference held at Cedar Lodge south of Saskatoon on Oct. 18.

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After spending 12 days in Canada in September, the United Nations'special rapporteur on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance wants to send a message to Canada's federal and provincial governments.

Racism is alive and flourishing in this country, which boasts internationally of its progressive attitudes towards multiculturalism.

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The shortlist of nominees for this year's Saskatchewan Book Awards have been announced, with three books vying for the award in the First Peoples Publishing category. The awards will be handed out in Regina Nov. 29.

Garry Gottfriedson, a writer from Kamloops, B.C. whose previous works include In Honour of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival and One Hundred Years of Contact., is nominated for his book Glass Tepees, a collection of poems published by Thistledown Press.