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"Some are chosen, some choose to be chosen and some are never chosen. Many are called but few are chosen because few want it."

These are the words which echoed in my mind as I left Howard Rainer's positive self-development workshop held development workshop held Feb. 22-23 at the Terrace Inn in Edmonton. Each day since, those words have kept coming back to haunt me. I, like more than 95 other participants from Hobbema, Alexander, Alexis and Siksika, returned from the two-day, intensive self-esteem and positive self-development workshop feeling refreshed.

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Medical student John Brisebois never misses a chance to encourage Native students to consider a career in the health sciences. So he was pleased when asked to participate in the recent Native Awareness Days at the University of Alberta since it gave him a chance to talk about the rewards of such a career.

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Dr. Anne Anderson, well known linguist, teacher and writer of the Cree language, has received a Heritage Language Development Award from the Alberta Multiculturalism Commission.

"I am very happy about this most recent award. I want the world to know we, the Metis people, can accomplish great things," she says.

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When Sandra Courterielle walked forward to receive her certificate after finishing an eight-week life skills course, little did she realize her baby son Nicolas would also receive a certificate.

"Nicolas was right there in the group along with Sandra. He's the first life skills baby to complete the course," laughed life skills coach Arnold Kootenay.

Certificates were given to 13 happy graduates at a March 13 banquet on the Alexander reserve, 50 km north of Edmonton.

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Natives are being urged to take part in public meetings dealing with the proposed expansion of the Swan Hills treatment plant.

Doris Ronnenberg, president of the Native Council of Canada (Alberta), said it's important for Natives living near the plant, 170 km northwest of Edmonton, to educate themselves on toxic wastes.

Ronnenberg said many Natives are affected by the plant making it essential for them to participate in its future.

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A proposal for a Native affairs committee got the thumbs up from Edmonton city council Tuesday.

Kathy Vandergrift, executive assistant to Mayor Jan Reimer, said the committee was proposed two years ago and since "Reimer's coming we've been going full steam ahead with it."

Larry Desmeules, president of the Metis Nation of Alberta, said the idea has taken awhile to set up "because of lack of push on our part."

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Northern Native fleeing the desperate conditions of reserve life won't find life in Edmonton any more rewarding, says a report on the city's Native population.

The report prepared by the Edmonton Social Planning Council, said employment is the main reason Natives move to the city.

The income of most Native families living on reserves is well below the poverty line.

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Northern Native fleeing the desperate conditions of reserve life won't find life in Edmonton any more rewarding, says a report on the city's Native population.

The report prepared by the Edmonton Social Planning Council, said employment is the main reason Natives move to the city.

The income of most Native families living on reserves is well below the poverty line.

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Northern Native fleeing the desperate conditions of reserve life won't find life in Edmonton any more rewarding, says a report on the city's Native population.

The report prepared by the Edmonton Social Planning Council, said employment is the main reason Natives move to the city.

The income of most Native families living on reserves is well below the poverty line.

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Northern Native fleeing the desperate conditions of reserve life won't find life in Edmonton any more rewarding, says a report on the city's Native population.

The report prepared by the Edmonton Social Planning Council, said employment is the main reason Natives move to the city.

The income of most Native families living on reserves is well below the poverty line.