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There's going to be a showdown between the MAA and Metis Self-determination Society of Alberta.

The two groups have been squabbling since last summer when the Metis Association of Alberta suspended four officials of the association's Zone 3 Regional Council.

The suspended officials went on to form the self-determination society, taking with them the names of Locals 1,2 and 3 of the MAA.

The MAA recently won one skirmish, convincing the Court of Queen's Bench, a least temporarily, that it had sole right to use the names Local 1, Local 2 and Local 3.

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There's going to be a showdown between the MAA and Metis Self-determination Society of Alberta.

The two groups have been squabbling since last summer when the Metis Association of Alberta suspended four officials of the association's Zone 3 Regional Council.

The suspended officials went on to form the self-determination society, taking with them the names of Locals 1,2 and 3 of the MAA.

The MAA recently won one skirmish, convincing the Court of Queen's Bench, a least temporarily, that it had sole right to use the names Local 1, Local 2 and Local 3.

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There's going to be a showdown between the MAA and Metis Self-determination Society of Alberta.

The two groups have been squabbling since last summer when the Metis Association of Alberta suspended four officials of the association's Zone 3 Regional Council.

The suspended officials went on to form the self-determination society, taking with them the names of Locals 1,2 and 3 of the MAA.

The MAA recently won one skirmish, convincing the Court of Queen's Bench, a least temporarily, that it had sole right to use the names Local 1, Local 2 and Local 3.

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There's going to be a showdown between the MAA and Metis Self-determination Society of Alberta.

The two groups have been squabbling since last summer when the Metis Association of Alberta suspended four officials of the association's Zone 3 Regional Council.

The suspended officials went on to form the self-determination society, taking with them the names of Locals 1,2 and 3 of the MAA.

The MAA recently won one skirmish, convincing the Court of Queen's Bench, a least temporarily, that it had sole right to use the names Local 1, Local 2 and Local 3.

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It's now written in the pages of Canadian judicial history that Nova Scotia Micmac Indian Donal Marshall Jr. was a victim of Canadian injustice -- almost a decade after he was sent to prison for 11 years for a murder he did not commit.

The damning contents of a Nova Scotia Royal Commission report attest to that.

But while the conclusions and recommendations of the government-sponsored panel provide a disturbing picture of severe oppression and racial intolerance by a government, it also gives the general public something to be outraged about.

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The whooping cough epidemic in Hobbema and outlying Indian communities in north and central Alberta highlights a very serious problem in Native communities throughout Canada.

That problem is whether the health care system is adequately serving the needs of native people, particularly on Indian reserves.

Hobbema residents have found out firsthand how inadequate that health care system is.

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The whooping cough epidemic in Hobbema and outlying Indian communities in north and central Alberta highlights a very serious problem in Native communities throughout Canada.

That problem is whether the health care system is adequately serving the needs of native people, particularly on Indian reserves.

Hobbema residents have found out firsthand how inadequate that health care system is.

Viewpoint

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The whooping cough epidemic in Hobbema and outlying Indian communities in north and central Alberta highlights a very serious problem in Native communities throughout Canada.

That problem is whether the health care system is adequately serving the needs of native people, particularly on Indian reserves.

Hobbema residents have found out firsthand how inadequate that health care system is.

Viewpoint

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The whooping cough epidemic in Hobbema and outlying Indian communities in north and central Alberta highlights a very serious problem in Native communities throughout Canada.

That problem is whether the health care system is adequately serving the needs of native people, particularly on Indian reserves.

Hobbema residents have found out firsthand how inadequate that health care system is.

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Benjamin Gordon Courtrille, pioneer for many Alberta Native social service organizations passed away Monday, January 15, 1990 at the age of 57.

Before becoming involved with the Native/Metis community Courtrille joined Alcoholics Anonymous on November 6, 1964.

In 1989, he marked his 25th year of sobriety.

In the earliest years of his recovery, Courtrille established a restaurant in the Boyle Street district of Edmonton with Father Mark Barrier.