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Evan Adams (Smoke Signals, Buffalo Tracks) guest on These Arms of Mine on CBC Television as a gay street vendor who finds himself in an unlikely pairing with show regular Steven played by Conrad Coates.

Adams is Coast Salish from the Sliammon Band near Powell River and has been seen most recently in Da Vinci's Inquest, Just Watch Me, and Canada: A People's History.

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Evan Adams (Smoke Signals, Buffalo Tracks) guest on These Arms of Mine on CBC Television as a gay street vendor who finds himself in an unlikely pairing with show regular Steven played by Conrad Coates.

Adams is Coast Salish from the Sliammon Band near Powell River and has been seen most recently in Da Vinci's Inquest, Just Watch Me, and Canada: A People's History.

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Teachers from Aboriginal communities will be able to attend workshops about mining and minerals thanks to $60,000 in government funding that will cover the cost of transportation, accommodation, per diems and salaries of substitute teachers for 25 program participants.

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Teachers from Aboriginal communities will be able to attend workshops about mining and minerals thanks to $60,000 in government funding that will cover the cost of transportation, accommodation, per diems and salaries of substitute teachers for 25 program participants.

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Ellen Melcosky's home-based business Little Miss Chief Gourmet Products Inc. has been chosen to participate at the First Peoples Pavilion at the Montreal International Food and Beverages Exhibition held at the Palais des Congres on March 4 to 6.

It is anticipated that the exposure the exhibition will provide will increase export markets beyond the business's current markets in Spain and the United States.

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Ellen Melcosky's home-based business Little Miss Chief Gourmet Products Inc. has been chosen to participate at the First Peoples Pavilion at the Montreal International Food and Beverages Exhibition held at the Palais des Congres on March 4 to 6.

It is anticipated that the exposure the exhibition will provide will increase export markets beyond the business's current markets in Spain and the United States.

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PITCH-IN CANADA is inviting schools, youth and community groups and local governments to lend a hand to clean our land during the 2001 PITCH-IN CANADA week taking place May 7 to 13.

Groups that register projects will receive free litter collection/recycling bags and other free materials.

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PITCH-IN CANADA is inviting schools, youth and community groups and local governments to lend a hand to clean our land during the 2001 PITCH-IN CANADA week taking place May 7 to 13.

Groups that register projects will receive free litter collection/recycling bags and other free materials.

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One of seven large fires burning in Alberta last December came within three kilometres of the Peigan First Nation town-site in southern Alberta, and within two kilometres of the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Historical Site.

The fire, measuring more than 20 km. in diameter ran through dried grass fields from the foothills west of the First Nation and the nearby historical site.

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When Connie Cunningham discovered she had talked two male friends out of suicide without even knowing it, she knew her career lay in social work.

"I was already doing it all the time," said the former Peace River Metis woman now living in Fort St. John, B.C. "Those guys thanked me later."