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LEGOFF - A dynamic plan to end the long-standing housing and employment problems at the Cold Lake First Nations reserve has resulted in the band taking the first steps towards establishing First Nations Forest Products, a wood-processing facility that will process raw lumber down to finished form.

The on-reserve lumber business has the potential of supplying all the existing and future housing needs plus could employ virtually all unemployed residents. It could establish a sound economic base and be a catalyst for individuals to develop spin-off cottage industries.

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The Metis foster care program, which was formed by the Metis Children's Services Society this year, assist Alberta Social Services in finding suitable homes for Metis children who have been apprehended. Most of the programs efforts go towards children who are still in temporary wardship (less than two years in care.)

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The 1st annual Metis Children's Services Society (MCS) meeting was held on November 24 at the Chateau Lacombe Hotel in Edmonton.

Since establishing and incorporating the society in April 1985 through Metis Local 1885, a yearly budget of $198,000 has been spent on much needed programs, research and development for the organization and the Metis community in Edmonton.

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What do you call an Indian in a sleeping bag underneath a tree on Lyall Island?

The answer: A Haida bed.

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SADDLE LAKE - Treaty Indians called for Canada to renew the bilateral relationship it has with Indian governments at the Treaty Six Assembly held here November 14 and 15.

The meeting saw about 75 chiefs, Elders and delegates from several Alberta and Saskatchewan Indian bands gather to review and talk on Indian matters.

The meeting indicated a firm resolve to press for a nation-to-nation relationship based on the spirit and intent of Treaty 6 made in 1876.

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Lawrence Boucher and his wife Diane are very angry over the "sheer neglect" that they are receiving from their landlord and Rubin Management in regards to their bachelor apartment not being fit to live in.

The Bouchers paid their rent and damage deposit on October 27, but when they were ready to move in, a new rug was put on the floor of their apartment and, according to Lawrence, the fumes from it made both of them sick.

They decided to wait a week until they moved it, but still, when the radiator turns on, they say, they become sick again.

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CALGARY - A former Department of Indian Affairs employee has accused the department to deliberately trying to "break" the Blood Band housing company, Kainai Industries.

Former Economic Development Co-ordinator Robert Laboucane said in an interview this week that a letter sent to chiefs and councillors of bands across the west inviting them to purchase housing built by Atco for the Calgary Winter Olympic Games was deliberately undermining the small constructin company located near Standoff on the Blood Reserve.

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A recent article in our Windspeaker newspaper reported that the situation at Heart Lake Indian Reserve, approximately 80 km north of Lac La Biche, is an inside problem and should be left at that.

The article quoted Chief Peter Francis as saying that the controversy is indeed a local matter in that the reserve operated under band custom and, therefore, these kinds of issues are internal in nature.

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Ahneen, hello and tansi to you. You know, whenever I head down to the corner liquor store this same social problem reaches out for me. It starts in the cashier lineup. They go, "and that's $18.70. From twenty? A dollar thirty is your change. Have a nice weekend, sir." When my turn comes they just shove my booze in a bag, shove the bag and change in my direction without a smile or a word. Sometimes, I feel like saying, "here, keep the bag, I'm gonna go drink this in the alley back there anyway."

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Chief Walter and Catherine Twinn's visit to the reserve of Fox Lake, without the involvement of the Little Red River Band's Chief Johnson Sewepagaham, was the result of a request from the people of Fox Lake, "because they are quite desperate," said lawyer Catherine Twinn.