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Indigenous veteran reflects on family's military service dating back to War of 1812

Retired sergeant Wendy Jocko, who is also a former chief of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, reflects on her family's generations of military service, including her own and that of her late son.

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Indigenous soldiers determined to carry on family legacies - The Turtle Island News

Indigenous soldiers determined to carry on family legacies - The Turtle Island News
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Indigenous soldiers determined to carry on family legacies

Indigenous soldiers determined to carry on family legacies
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Developer gave little warning ahead of Tewin tree cutting, emails show

Ottawa city planning staff were not expecting dozens of hectares of trees to be clear-cut in February at the site of the future Tewin suburb because developer Taggart had made only one inquiry seven months prior to the cutting, documents show.

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Algonquin College Pembroke Campus honours graduates

Algonquin College Pembroke Campus honours graduates
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Community builder: Algonquin College to grant honorary degree to construction, real estate icon Jim Taggart – Ottawa Business Journal

One of the capital’s leading construction and real estate executives is heading back to school – albeit briefly.

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Great Reads: Freeing Lolita; kinship after a kidnapping; Dominion Voting CEO on fighting lies

In this issue, the challenges of returning a whale held in captivity to the ocean; a journalist shares the bond she feels with survivors of Boko Haram; Dominion Voting Systems CEO speaks out

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An Algonquin service-member was a UN peacekeeper in Croatia. Thirty years later, she's being honoured in a portrait by a prominent war artist

Wendy Jocko joined the Canadian Forces when she was 19 and served for 23 years, before taking up other vocations, including as the chief of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation

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Adam: After the clear-cutting of 25,000 trees, Council must act

Thanks to the Tewin precedent, other landowners now have a the blueprint on how to circumvent the rules and put their lands in contention for future…

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Jocko: Attacks on the Tewin development are unwarranted

The Algonquins of Ontario and partner Taggart have respected all the rules while preparing lands adjacent to the project for farming use.

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