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Three Metis settlements are major players in a $90 million wood products plant proposed for the High Prairie area.
Gift Lake, Peavine and East Prairie Metis Settlement -- known collectively as the Tri-Settlement Councils -- are partners in the plant, which would be built at High Prairie.
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A Paddle Prairie resident has gone to court to declare the Jan. 18 Paddle Prairie referendum illegal and void, claiming improper procedures preceeded the vote.
Paddle resident Elmer Ghostkeeper has filed the lawsuit in provincial court against Paddle Prairie council as a concerned citizen. The lawsuit will argue that "the general public does not have the authority to direct that the council holds a referendum," said Ghostkeeper's lawyer Richard Marceau.
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A Paddle Prairie resident has gone to court to declare the Jan. 18 Paddle Prairie referendum illegal and void, claiming improper procedures preceeded the vote.
Paddle resident Elmer Ghostkeeper has filed the lawsuit in provincial court against Paddle Prairie council as a concerned citizen. The lawsuit will argue that "the general public does not have the authority to direct that the council holds a referendum," said Ghostkeeper's lawyer Richard Marceau.
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A Paddle Prairie resident has gone to court to declare the Jan. 18 Paddle Prairie referendum illegal and void, claiming improper procedures preceeded the vote.
Paddle resident Elmer Ghostkeeper has filed the lawsuit in provincial court against Paddle Prairie council as a concerned citizen. The lawsuit will argue that "the general public does not have the authority to direct that the council holds a referendum," said Ghostkeeper's lawyer Richard Marceau.
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A Paddle Prairie resident has gone to court to declare the Jan. 18 Paddle Prairie referendum illegal and void, claiming improper procedures preceeded the vote.
Paddle resident Elmer Ghostkeeper has filed the lawsuit in provincial court against Paddle Prairie council as a concerned citizen. The lawsuit will argue that "the general public does not have the authority to direct that the council holds a referendum," said Ghostkeeper's lawyer Richard Marceau.
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The United Nations has declared 1990 International Year of Literacy.
The aims for the year are to increase government action in addressing literacy problems; increasing public awareness and participation in projects and using the year of literacy towards launching a plan of action to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000.
The idea behind having an International Year of Literacy has been discussed since 1984, according to Mariette Houge, program officer at UNESCO (United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization) Canada.
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The United Nations has declared 1990 International Year of Literacy.
The aims for the year are to increase government action in addressing literacy problems; increasing public awareness and participation in projects and using the year of literacy towards launching a plan of action to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000.
The idea behind having an International Year of Literacy has been discussed since 1984, according to Mariette Houge, program officer at UNESCO (United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization) Canada.
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The United Nations has declared 1990 International Year of Literacy.
The aims for the year are to increase government action in addressing literacy problems; increasing public awareness and participation in projects and using the year of literacy towards launching a plan of action to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000.
The idea behind having an International Year of Literacy has been discussed since 1984, according to Mariette Houge, program officer at UNESCO (United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization) Canada.
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The United Nations has declared 1990 International Year of Literacy.
The aims for the year are to increase government action in addressing literacy problems; increasing public awareness and participation in projects and using the year of literacy towards launching a plan of action to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000.
The idea behind having an International Year of Literacy has been discussed since 1984, according to Mariette Houge, program officer at UNESCO (United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization) Canada.
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When the book, The Miss Hobbema Pageant written by W.P. Kinsella hit the bookstores last year, it opened would causing cries of prejudice from Hobbema residents.
Many residents called the book 'racist' and demeaning to Indians although Kinsella maintained it was strictly fiction.
Now David Small Face, an Indian from the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta, is protesting against another book of Kinsella fictional writing by suing him.