More First Nations students to get driver ed
CBC News
The Saskatchewan government says it will make sure driver education is provided to all eligible high school students — including those who go to school on reserve.
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CBC News
The Saskatchewan government says it will make sure driver education is provided to all eligible high school students — including those who go to school on reserve.
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Winnipeg Free Press
The annual budget for Aboriginal and Northern Development Canada is $300 million in Manitoba alone. If this money was deposited in an interest-bearing account at the beginning of each year instead of being doled out in pieces, an additional $15 million would be available for First Nations programs.
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Rotarians' efforts on Penelakut Island have provided a model for Rotary clubs' involvement with other First Nations communities
Like most big things, the British Columbia First Nations literacy project began with a small conversation.
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Metro Winnipeg
Manitoba’s largest freshwater lake has won a dubious distinction.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Ottawa and Manitoba have a deal to split the cost of getting homes and church built on higher ground, an agreement that could see the first evacuees headed home two years after they were flooded out.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Ottawa will appoint a mediator in a dispute over unpaid hotel bills for flood evacuees and it has made the agency that’s withholding funds pay some of its debt to the lodge that went public with its hotel tab.
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The focus on colonialism in Canada for all these years has been on the Aboriginal Affairs department or Colonial Office - a vestige of Victorian times that continues to function long after the sun has set on the British Empire.
Write comment (0 Comments)Dauphin River First Nation suit brings number of lawsuits over 2011 flood to 4
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The Dauphin River First Nation is suing the Manitoba government for damages stemming from the flood of 2011, which has made much of the community uninhabitable.
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Leaders from 11 First Nations in the Qu'Appelle valley — a forecasted flood-zone this year — declared a state of emergency in their communities on Monday.
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