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Making a difference in the community of Cranberry Portage is what the Child/Family Resource Centre is all about.

Executive Director Wendy Trylinski said the centre's programs and services are open to everyone in the community.

Trylinski added before funding from Health and Welfare Canada was approved through the Community Action Program for Children, the committee researched the community of approximately 860 people to see if the need existed and if they would be eligible for the grant.

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Making a difference in the community of Cranberry Portage is what the Child/Family Resource Centre is all about.

Executive Director Wendy Trylinski said the centre's programs and services are open to everyone in the community.

Trylinski added before funding from Health and Welfare Canada was approved through the Community Action Program for Children, the committee researched the community of approximately 860 people to see if the need existed and if they would be eligible for the grant.

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Two Brandon University professors have been awarded a $45,500 grant to research Metis political organizations.

Over three years, Gerard Ens of the history department and Joe Sawchuk of the Native studies department will collect and analyze 20th century materials related to Metis political organizations. The research will focus on organizations which were instrumental in redefining Metis identity in Canada and the United States.

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Two Brandon University professors have been awarded a $45,500 grant to research Metis political organizations.

Over three years, Gerard Ens of the history department and Joe Sawchuk of the Native studies department will collect and analyze 20th century materials related to Metis political organizations. The research will focus on organizations which were instrumental in redefining Metis identity in Canada and the United States.

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There is a new sense of urgency in Bill Sanderson's voice when he talks about the necessity for a provincial Aboriginal school division in Winnipeg.

"We've got a whole new generation of kids that are going to be lost if we don't get this school division up and running by this fall."

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There is a new sense of urgency in Bill Sanderson's voice when he talks about the necessity for a provincial Aboriginal school division in Winnipeg.

"We've got a whole new generation of kids that are going to be lost if we don't get this school division up and running by this fall."

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Native and business leaders held a conference in April to open lines of communication between the two groups. It's been a long time coming but there are some big changes in the works for resource development.

The Focusing our Resources conference in Calgary united 450 people, both from bands across the country and from oil and gas companies hoping to make some money on Canada's 2,200 reserves. There's a lot of money to be made.

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Native and business leaders held a conference in April to open lines of communication between the two groups. It's been a long time coming but there are some big changes in the works for resource development.

The Focusing our Resources conference in Calgary united 450 people, both from bands across the country and from oil and gas companies hoping to make some money on Canada's 2,200 reserves. There's a lot of money to be made.

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Embrace technology as a way to create work independent of the large corporate studios, innovative recording star Buffy Sainte-Marie told about 100 potential converts as a high-tech workshop during this month's Dreamspeakers Festival in Edmonton.

"(A computer) makes it possible for you to be a recording artist or film-maker at home, which is really about blowing people's minds," says the two-time Juno award winner.

"This is causing social upheavals because for a long time it was the big guys who controlled artists and the medium.

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Embrace technology as a way to create work independent of the large corporate studios, innovative recording star Buffy Sainte-Marie told about 100 potential converts as a high-tech workshop during this month's Dreamspeakers Festival in Edmonton.

"(A computer) makes it possible for you to be a recording artist or film-maker at home, which is really about blowing people's minds," says the two-time Juno award winner.

"This is causing social upheavals because for a long time it was the big guys who controlled artists and the medium.