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One way I like to relax and relieve stress is when I'm on the internet, or as most people would call it . . . the worldwide web. The number of teenagers who surf the web on a daily basis is amazing. You could be on a 'Teen Chat' website and be talking to other teenagers from around…
DEAR AUNTIE
Dear Auntie:
The deadline for the Common Experience Payment is almost here. For the past year I’ve been trying to get my dad to apply. He spent a lot of time in residential school, and he should get the money that is owing to him. But he refuses to take part. He said he…
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One way I like to relax and relieve stress is when I'm on the internet, or as most people would call it . . . the worldwide web. The number of teenagers who surf the web on a daily basis is amazing. You could be on a 'Teen Chat' website and be talking to other teenagers from around…
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One of the world's largest producers of uranium has a northern preference for hiring and the vast majority of its staff are Aboriginal.
Cogema Resources Inc., with headquarters in Saskatoon, operates the McClean Lake and Cluff Lake uranium mine sites in Northern…
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One of the world's largest producers of uranium has a northern preference for hiring and the vast majority of its staff are Aboriginal.
Cogema Resources Inc., with headquarters in Saskatoon, operates the McClean Lake and Cluff Lake uranium mine sites in Northern…
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An alliance of seven Shuswap bands met together in Williams Lake just before Christmas to sign an agreement with Dennis Elias, vice-president of regulatory services for Duke Energy Gas Transmission's B.C. Pipeline & Field Services Division. The bands represented were Canoe…
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An alliance of seven Shuswap bands met together in Williams Lake just before Christmas to sign an agreement with Dennis Elias, vice-president of regulatory services for Duke Energy Gas Transmission's B.C. Pipeline & Field Services Division. The bands represented were Canoe…
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Well-known and highly respected Elder Wilna "Willy" Hodgson was notified recently that she has received an appointment to the Order of Canada. The Saskatchewan woman is one of 65 Canadians to be recognized as a member of the Order of Canada for her volunteer work and for a long…
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The Amiskwaciy Academy, located at 101 Airport Road in Edmonton, is expanding. It will now be offering junior high classes, as well as grades 10, 11 and 12.
Principal Dr. Phyllis Cardinal said the idea that the school should offer the extra grades came from the Edmonton…
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Three residents of Saskatchewan have been named among the 14 recipients of this year's National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, which will be handed out at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on March 28.
John Arcand is a ninth generation Metis fiddler. With 250 original…
“There’s some wicked things that come out of the nuclear industry,” said Kirstin Scansen. She was speaking Dec. 12 at an event called Radioactive Colonialism: Uranium and the Dispossession of the Nehithaw Cree and Denesuline Peoples. The evening, attended by about 60 people, was organized by…
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Kristen Francis and Katherine Delorme know their business.
The two students from Miller Comprehensive school in Regina recently took top honors in E-Spirit 2002, a national-wide business plan competition for Aboriginal youth.
E-Spirit is an internet-based business…
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Sixteen-year-old Alika LaFontaine seems to have it all together for his age: a close and loving family, a solid record of academic achievement, a career goal, community and peer support for just about everything he does, and to top it all off, he is recognized this year as the…
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PRO BONO
Dear Tuma:
I am trying to help my cousin register her kids to our band, but am having a great deal of difficulty as the band registry says that the kids are non-Native. I believe that this is wrong.
Years ago when a woman married a non-Native she lost…
The 13th annual report on Aboriginal participation in mining in Canada was released on April 19. The document, prepared by the Intergovernmental Working Group Sub-committee on Aboriginal Participation in Mining, focuses on ways in which Aboriginal communities benefit from mining and on what the…