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Attawapiskat is a small sub-arctic community in Canada with an Elementary School with 400 students.
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Just ask the kids in Attawapiskat, trying to get themselves a school but effectively being given the finger by Indian and Northen Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, who has let it be known that he simply doesn't care about First Nations people.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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He then made reference to that family, that that family can’t visit him in Attawapiskat because he doesn’t have a home.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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He alluded to Attawapiskat, which is excellent, and he mentions the apology and what it should mean.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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He alluded to Attawapiskat, which is excellent, and he mentions the apology and what it should mean.
BC Bloggers 2008
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Video: Rae dubs Attawapiskat Canada's 'Third World'
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Video: Rae dubs Attawapiskat Canada's 'Third World'
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The people of Kenora are poorly served by Con MP Greg Rickford, who ridiculed the desperate cry by residents of Attawapiskat First Nation for a school for their kids and attacked the local NDP MP, Charlie Angus, for making such a fuss about it.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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For 8 years, Attawapiskat children have had no school.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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To Rickford, educating Aboriginal youth is a zero-sum game: if Attawapiskat gets a school, some other community will suffer.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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