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Thelma Chalifoux, former senator and Metis activist, dies in Alberta at 88

By APTN National News
Sep 25, 2017

Metis activist and retired senator Thelma Chalifoux has died. Chalifoux’s daughter, Debbie Coulter, says her mother passed away Friday evening at a care home in St. Albert, near Edmonton, and had been in declining health for some years.

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