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Growing up in Northern Alberta, film-maker Loretta Todd remembers going to school and watching documentaries from the National Film Board of Canada about Native communities. She remembers the way Aboriginal people were depicted in these documentaries-demeaning and cliched representations that made other people in her class laugh. As a film-maker, Todd, who is Metis/Cree, has spent the last 15 years of her life challenging the stereotypes she believes are still deeply entrenched in today's media.

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Money makes the research world go round. It takes money to get the best researcher in the world to come up with plans and courses of action in a field of endeavor.

Dr. Lorna Williams of the University of Victoria and Dr. Mary-Ellen Kelm of Simon Fraser University are two of the best, and have been awarded research chairs by their respective institutions through the Canada Research Chairs program.

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Money makes the research world go round. It takes money to get the best researcher in the world to come up with plans and courses of action in a field of endeavor.

Dr. Lorna Williams of the University of Victoria and Dr. Mary-Ellen Kelm of Simon Fraser University are two of the best, and have been awarded research chairs by their respective institutions through the Canada Research Chairs program.

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The annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the site of one of the most important battles of the First World War was moved up to Nov. 2 this year to accommodate the presence of a group of Aboriginal veterans from Canada.

A large crowd of onlookers watched as French and Canadian veterans, soldiers and dignitaries gathered in the Canadian war cemetery at Vimy Ridge to pay tribute to the almost 20,000 dead who rest there. Thirty-five hundred Canadian soldiers fell during the April 9, 1917 assault on the ridge, including at least 35 Aboriginal soldiers.

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The annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the site of one of the most important battles of the First World War was moved up to Nov. 2 this year to accommodate the presence of a group of Aboriginal veterans from Canada.

A large crowd of onlookers watched as French and Canadian veterans, soldiers and dignitaries gathered in the Canadian war cemetery at Vimy Ridge to pay tribute to the almost 20,000 dead who rest there. Thirty-five hundred Canadian soldiers fell during the April 9, 1917 assault on the ridge, including at least 35 Aboriginal soldiers.

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The provincial and federal governments are joining forces with Union Gas and six northern colleges to increase access to training in the trades for people living in the north.

The project, designed to redress the shortage of skilled tradespeople in Northern Ontario, will provide funding for development of new training programs and infrastructure at College Boreal, Sault College, Canadore College, Confederation College, Cambrian College and Northern College.

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The provincial and federal governments are joining forces with Union Gas and six northern colleges to increase access to training in the trades for people living in the north.

The project, designed to redress the shortage of skilled tradespeople in Northern Ontario, will provide funding for development of new training programs and infrastructure at College Boreal, Sault College, Canadore College, Confederation College, Cambrian College and Northern College.

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A group of 14 Aboriginal youth were recently given the opportunity of a lifetime when they were selected to travel to Europe as part of the Aboriginal Spiritual Journey.

The journey took place from Oct. 28 to Nov. to give Aboriginal veterans a chance to return to the places where they had fought during the Second World War to pay their final respects to fallen comrades. The trip also included a spiritual ceremony conducted by Aboriginal spiritual leaders to call home the spirits of Aboriginal soldiers who died and were buried in these foreign lands.

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More than a month has passed since David Ramsay, Ontario's minister of Aboriginal Affairs, declared a medical emergency in Kashechewan First Nation and announced plans to evacuate about 1,000 of the community's 1,900 or so residents to nearby communities such as Ottawa, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timmins, Attawapiskat, Sault Ste. Marie, Peterborough and Moosonee.

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More than a month has passed since David Ramsay, Ontario's minister of Aboriginal Affairs, declared a medical emergency in Kashechewan First Nation and announced plans to evacuate about 1,000 of the community's 1,900 or so residents to nearby communities such as Ottawa, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timmins, Attawapiskat, Sault Ste. Marie, Peterborough and Moosonee.