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Wally Rabbitskin grew up playing ice hockey in Northern Quebec but now he's a marathon runner who plays only the occasional game on blades.

"I've got a bit of a shin injury," says Rabbitskin before quietly acknowledging that he's still logging 90 to 100 kilometres a week in training.

That the 33-year-old Cree has taken to running up to 150 kilometres a week might be traced to the father he never met. From what his mother tells him, Matthew Rabbitskin was a proud provider who didn't use modern machinery for transportation.

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Wally Rabbitskin grew up playing ice hockey in Northern Quebec but now he's a marathon runner who plays only the occasional game on blades.

"I've got a bit of a shin injury," says Rabbitskin before quietly acknowledging that he's still logging 90 to 100 kilometres a week in training.

That the 33-year-old Cree has taken to running up to 150 kilometres a week might be traced to the father he never met. From what his mother tells him, Matthew Rabbitskin was a proud provider who didn't use modern machinery for transportation.

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The rodeo circuit continued to prosper over Christmas at the 15th Cowboy Christmas Rodeo in the Panee Memorial Multiplex in Hobbema. This years four-show event had the best attendance ever for one of the few rodeos held in Canada's rodeo "off season." And the crowds went home happy, having witnessed some of the country's best in top form.

The rodeo opened with an afternoon and evening show on Boxing Day, then evening shows over the next two days. Each entrant rode or roped only once.

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REVIEW

Legends: I Am An Eagles the fledging First Nations Music label's fifth release, a hefty double CD containing more than two hours of stories and music.

The recording company is a partnership between Wawatay Native Communications Society, based in Sioux Lookout, Ont. and two new companies which were established to recover lost funding due to government cutbacks.

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Legends: I Am An Eagles the fledging First Nations Music label's fifth release, a hefty double CD containing more than two hours of stories and music.

The recording company is a partnership between Wawatay Native Communications Society, based in Sioux Lookout, Ont. and two new companies which were established to recover lost funding due to government cutbacks.

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The Duwamish of the Pacific Northwest have a legend of how song came to Earth. The living creatures of Earth wanted to hear song and tried many ways in reaching skyward to catch song. Finally, little songbirds were sent on Raven's back to retrieve song from a tiny hole in the sky.

Today, we never say we wrote a song, but think of where and what gave us a song. It could be a river, a gentle breeze or even the sound of laughter that helped us catch a song. Hence the name SongCatchers, explains Lara Lavik a founding member.

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The Duwamish of the Pacific Northwest have a legend of how song came to Earth. The living creatures of Earth wanted to hear song and tried many ways in reaching skyward to catch song. Finally, little songbirds were sent on Raven's back to retrieve song from a tiny hole in the sky.

Today, we never say we wrote a song, but think of where and what gave us a song. It could be a river, a gentle breeze or even the sound of laughter that helped us catch a song. Hence the name SongCatchers, explains Lara Lavik a founding member.

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The future Nunavut Legislative Assembly may be the first in modern history to go beyond talking about gender equality in politics to delivering it through their elections.

The Nunavut Implementation Commission proposes a two-member constituency model for the new territory allowing larger representation in the assembly for the existing 10 electoral districts - with a twist. All voters in each district would elect one male and one female MLA, thereby insuring women get 50 per cent representations in the government.

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The future Nunavut Legislative Assembly may be the first in modern history to go beyond talking about gender equality in politics to delivering it through their elections.

The Nunavut Implementation Commission proposes a two-member constituency model for the new territory allowing larger representation in the assembly for the existing 10 electoral districts - with a twist. All voters in each district would elect one male and one female MLA, thereby insuring women get 50 per cent representations in the government.

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When the Elders of Arviat, an Inuit community on the west shore of Hudson Bay, were asked to contribute their ideas on housing project for seniors and people with disabilities, they drew deeply on their own traditions.

They wanted the building to be a familiar shape, like the igloo (snow house) and the quamaq (skin house), and the interior layout to resemble that of traditional shelters. This meant sleeping areas grouped together at one end of the building, a central cooking area, and plenty of room to sew skins and furs, or to carve soapstone.