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Now an Ojibway penal reformer can work from within the system During his 17 years as a lawyer, Leonard Stephen 'Tony' Mandamin, an Ojibway Indian, campaigned hard for alternative methods [...]

While government largesse for the Metis expands, elective action shrinks Both provincial and federal governments consider the Metis Nation of Alberta (MNA) as the official voice for the 43,000 mixed [...]

Alberta's treasurer apologizes to the lawyer of a child molester Last March, Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day grabbed the national spotlight when he delivered a surplus budget that included tax reform [...]

A Whitecourt chopper pilot with a criminal record is nominated for heroism On May 4, 1998, firefighter Damon Deacon was constructing a fireguard to help contain a widespread forest fire [...]

Beat cops ask Canada's auditor general to review the gun registry The federal government has repeatedly justified its expensive and logistically challenged universal gun registry by reminding Canadians that it [...]

Vietnamese gangs open fire in Edmonton as the police plead for calm In the wake of five recent shootings linked to two Vietnamese gangs struggling over Edmonton's drug trade, Mayor [...]

Canada's two right-wing party leaders finally square off Reform Party leader Preston Manning does not lack critics, but even his harshest antagonists would be hard pressed to prove him a [...]

The Blood band is awash in allegations of theft and fraud by tribal Administrators As Floyd Many Fingers surveys the Blood First Nation reserve, a vast expanse of prairie twice [...]

Press lord Conrad Black sues the prime minister when his barony blocked Canadian billionaire news magnate Conrad Black is an unabashed Anglophile, and has the papers to prove it. He [...]

Even some of the timid have-not premiers are starting to acknowledge it The plain truth of Canadian federalism is that Ottawa is only as powerful as the provinces allow it [...]

The tainted blood probe now stretches from there to Canada's cabinet It is perhaps fitting that Canada's tainted-blood scandal should be painful and lingering, like a chronic disease. Almost 22 [...]

And insiders see the leaked federal report as an Allan Rock power play For two years, federal Finance Minister Paul Martin and Health Minister Allan Rock have quietly battled to [...]

Prison guards say native gangs are booming under the soft regime at the Edmonton Max The most dangerous criminals in the prairie region of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) [...]