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Toronto's SkyDome will be the place to be at the end of November, during the annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival.

The festival will run from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1, featuring all the events and activities regular festival goers are familiar with, along with a couple of new events.

One of the new additions is a fundraising dinner and concert on Nov. 29. The concert will feature performances by some of the award winners from the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, which will be handed out the evening before.

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As of Oct. 28, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network news team is on the air every day. The half-hour news show will air Monday to Friday at 6:30 p.m. Central Time (7:30 in Toronto, 4:30 in Vancouver). On Friday, Contact, the call-in show starring Rick Harp, will follow.

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British Columbia Vice-chief Satsan (Herb George) and National Chief Matthew Coon Come exchanged letters in October that reveal the strong feelings the debate over the proposed fiscal institutions act has created.

The B.C. vice-chief began the exchange with a strongly worded letter to Coon Come, dated Oct. 9. The national chief responded in writing the next day.

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Gradually, very gradually, lives are being touched. Attitudes are changing and people are finding something meaningful and deep inside themselves that they didn't know existed. The catalyst for this change is a series of cultural awareness workshops. At the heart is a most unusual chaplain in a most unusual setting-a jail.

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It was another successful year for the annual Aboriginal youth conference that brings young people from across the country and beyond to Edmonton for a weekend of fun and education.

Dreamcatcher 2002, held Oct. 18 to 20 at Grant MacEwan College's downtown campus, even attracted participants from New Zealand.

On the agenda for opening ceremonies were performances by 16-year-old country singer Crystal Anne, the Metis Cultural Dancers, and Jennifer McLeod and her dance troupe.

Weekend education sessions were designed to motivate, encourage, and inspire.

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For cowboy Kevin Langevin, a championship rodeo last weekend in Palm Springs, Calif., was his ticket to world-wide fame.

The 19-year-old Metis man from Rich Lake, Alta. is now the world champion bareback rider, taking the title at the Indian National Finals Rodeo held over the Oct. 18 weekend.

"I'm the world champ in the Indian ranks," he said with an ear-to-ear grin.

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Of the population of Saskatchewan, Aboriginal people have the most to gain monetarily from getting an education, and the most to lose by not getting one, reports a study done by University of Saskatchewan economics professor Eric Howe.

Education and Lifetime Income for Aboriginal People in Saskatchewan uses statistical information and trends in employment and wage rates for Aboriginal people to forecast the average lifetime income for Aboriginal men and women who achieve differing levels of education.

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A decision on a complaint filed against Calgary Herald columnist Ric Dolphin by an Ontario Aboriginal woman has been put over until February by the Alberta Press Council (APC). The complainant believes the reason why the decision was held over was because the council did not want to deal with it.

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Only days after Windspeaker reported that a police cover-up was being alleged in the very public beating of a Native man in Toronto, two city police officers were arrested.

After a four-month investigation by members of Internal Affairs, the officers were charged on Sept. 26 with assaulting Ramsey Whitefish on June 2 in the Bloor Street West and Borden Street area of the city.

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A national conference on fiscal relations held at the Squamish Nation Recreation Centre near Vancouver on Sept. 26 and 27, turned out to be a very civil clash between chiefs, a former chief and technicians who support the proposed fiscal institutions act and those who fear its potential effects.