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The effects of global warming are no longer just fodder for theoretical debate among scientists. They are already being felt, and are affecting the lives of people around the world.
This is the message delivered to delegates of the Sixth Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-6), held in The Hague,…
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The effects of global warming are no longer just fodder for theoretical debate among scientists. They are already being felt, and are affecting the lives of people around the world.
This is the message delivered to delegates of the Sixth Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-6), held in The Hague,…
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Concerns voiced by the First Nations Summit in British Columbia are being addressed on two different fronts, with a panel struck to look at controversial murals hanging in the provincial legislature, and a number of place names viewed as offensive being eliminated across the province.
The future of four murals hanging in the rotunda of the legislature is to be decided by…
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Concerns voiced by the First Nations Summit in British Columbia are being addressed on two different fronts, with a panel struck to look at controversial murals hanging in the provincial legislature, and a number of place names viewed as offensive being eliminated across the province.
The future of four murals hanging in the rotunda of the legislature is to be decided by…
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Despite a strict injunction granted to Peigan chief and council blocking Peigan Nation members from protesting the construction of an RCMP building in Brocket, the general population endorsed Chief Peter Strikes With A Gun in tribal elections held Nov. 30.
Strikes With A Gun was returned for his third term as chief, only two months after successfully obtaining an…
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Despite a strict injunction granted to Peigan chief and council blocking Peigan Nation members from protesting the construction of an RCMP building in Brocket, the general population endorsed Chief Peter Strikes With A Gun in tribal elections held Nov. 30.
Strikes With A Gun was returned for his third term as chief, only two months after successfully obtaining an…
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More than 220 chiefs, treaty negotiators, spectators and media members jammed into the Hyatt Regency?s ballroom in downtown Vancouver on Dec. 11 to witness the formal Nuu-chah-nulth treaty offer exchange.
British Columbia?s Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, David Zirnhelt, billed the government?s offer as the largest in the province?s treaty-making history, the event also…
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More than 220 chiefs, treaty negotiators, spectators and media members jammed into the Hyatt Regency?s ballroom in downtown Vancouver on Dec. 11 to witness the formal Nuu-chah-nulth treaty offer exchange.
British Columbia?s Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, David Zirnhelt, billed the government?s offer as the largest in the province?s treaty-making history, the event also…
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, representatives from the federal government came to Nuu-chah-nulth territory to offer an apology from Canada for the horrors the Nuu-chah-nulth people experienced at government- and church-operated residential schools.
?If we expect to move forward as a nation, we have to address the issues related to the effects that the Indian residential…
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, representatives from the federal government came to Nuu-chah-nulth territory to offer an apology from Canada for the horrors the Nuu-chah-nulth people experienced at government- and church-operated residential schools.
?If we expect to move forward as a nation, we have to address the issues related to the effects that the Indian residential…
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Writers and children?s advocates Melanie Mark and Cherry Kingsley have completed a remarkable study on commercial sexual exploitation of Canadian Aboriginal children and youth in 22 communities. Their report, Sacred Lives, documents five months of meetings that gave a voice to youth on all issues arising out of the sex trade, including abuse, exploitation, prevention, healing,…
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Writers and children?s advocates Melanie Mark and Cherry Kingsley have completed a remarkable study on commercial sexual exploitation of Canadian Aboriginal children and youth in 22 communities. Their report, Sacred Lives, documents five months of meetings that gave a voice to youth on all issues arising out of the sex trade, including abuse, exploitation, prevention, healing,…
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The File Hills Qu?Appelle Tribal Council has a new weapon to battle the child sex trade.
At a release party Dec. 8 in Regina, the tribal council and Birdsong Productions, a Regina-based film and video production company, introduced Lives Worth Living, a video designed to be shown to school children to warn them about the dangers of becoming prostitutes, and to give them…
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The File Hills Qu?Appelle Tribal Council has a new weapon to battle the child sex trade.
At a release party Dec. 8 in Regina, the tribal council and Birdsong Productions, a Regina-based film and video production company, introduced Lives Worth Living, a video designed to be shown to school children to warn them about the dangers of becoming prostitutes, and to give them…
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First Nations reserves may not have a visible child prostitution problem, but they are fertile ground for the sexual exploitation of children, said Bev Poitras, director of justice for File Hills Qu?Appelle Tribal Council.
Poitras was presenting the video Lives Worth Living to the Special Committee to Prevent the Abuse and Exploitation of Children Through the Sex Trade.…