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CALGARY-Actor Tom Jackson was presented with the David Billington Award Oct. 30, acknowledging his contribution to the Alberta film business. He was the unanimous choice for the award, selected by the Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association. Jackson is know for his starring role on North of 60 and for his annual Huron Carole benefit concerts...

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Alberta musical artists have been particularly blessed with nominations for the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards to be presented in Toronto on Nov. 26.

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The two conventional approaches used to fight obesity just don't work well, said Noreen Willows, an assistant professor of community nutrition at the University of Alberta (U of A).

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Something's been missing from the Fort McMurray theatre scene-Aboriginal content. But no more. For its 25th anniversary season, Keyano Theatre is doing something it's never done before. They'll have a Native play in the line-up.

"With a name like Keyano you'd think it's about time," said Paul Gelineau, the artistic director for Keyano Theatre. Keyano is Cree for yours, mine and ours.

The theatre will present the critically acclaimed Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor.

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After 28 years, Constable Wesley Steinhauer retired. He was the longest serving First Nation member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Alberta.

Steinhauer has mixed feelings about putting the job behind him.

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Now that the federal court has ruled that off-reserve Aboriginal people have been discriminated against when it comes to skills and training funding, what has the federal government done to remedy that discrimination?

Pit on-reserve people against off-reserve people in a scrap over money, say two women associated with a Toronto Aboriginal employment and training agency.

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The story of Louis Riel and the resistance he led in the 1880s against government encroachment on Metis lands and settlements is a well-known tale.

This turbulent time in Canadian history is taught in high schools across the country. But not much is said about what happened to those same Metis people in the 50 years after their defeat at Batoche, after Riel was hanged for his "treasonous" ways, after the European settlers flooded into the West.

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First Denver, Colorado in 2006, then Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island in 2008. That's the line-up for the next two North American Indigenous Games (NAIG).

British Columbia officials are thrilled Cowichan Valley, with a population of 75,000 people found in 11 small communities, has been selected to host. The official announcement was made Oct. 22 following a NAIG council meeting in Connecticut.

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"Trust yourself" was the message students Harley Berland Cardinal and Leslie McGilvery heard from Inuk singer/songwriter Susan Aglukark during her visit to Kihew Asiniy school in Saddle Lake on Oct. 22.

They were important words for both. Berland Cardinal, 13, wants to be a doctor. McGilvery, 14, wants to be a veterinarian.

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He was born Harold Jay Smith and later changed his name to Jay Silverheels, but to many he will always be remembered as Tonto.

Silverheels was born June 26, 1912 on the Six Nations reserve in Ohsweken, Ont.

The Lone Ranger, which told the tale of a mysterious masked man and his faithful Indian companion as they fought to bring peace and justice to the Old West, was a highly successful radio program in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. When the story made the move to television in 1949, Silverheels was cast as Tonto, the Commanche sidekick of the title character.