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The time for talk is over. It's now time for action on Aboriginal education.

That was the major theme coming out of a three-day conference held July 7, 8 and 9 in Ottawa.

Verna Kirkness, director of the First Nations' House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, told delegates the educational needs of Aboriginal people have been studied to death.

"What we need is action," she told the National Round Table on Education, organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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The time for talk is over. It's now time for action on Aboriginal education.

That was the major theme coming out of a three-day conference held July 7, 8 and 9 in Ottawa.

Verna Kirkness, director of the First Nations' House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, told delegates the educational needs of Aboriginal people have been studied to death.

"What we need is action," she told the National Round Table on Education, organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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The time for talk is over. It's now time for action on Aboriginal education.

That was the major theme coming out of a three-day conference held July 7, 8 and 9 in Ottawa.

Verna Kirkness, director of the First Nations' House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, told delegates the educational needs of Aboriginal people have been studied to death.

"What we need is action," she told the National Round Table on Education, organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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The time for talk is over. It's now time for action on Aboriginal education.

That was the major theme coming out of a three-day conference held July 7, 8 and 9 in Ottawa.

Verna Kirkness, director of the First Nations' House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, told delegates the educational needs of Aboriginal people have been studied to death.

"What we need is action," she told the National Round Table on Education, organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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When the gasoline-sniffing kids of Davis Inlet made headlines earlier this year, Ruth Morin knew their recovery would be a challenge. Like everyone else, she saw the images of despondent, gasoline-stoned children rolling around in an unheated fallen-down shack. She heard them cry out in Innu "We want to die. We want to die."

The desperate images shocked the country. But Morin, director of Poundmaker's Adolescent Centre, says the deplorable situation is not all that unusual.

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Leaders of the remote village of Davis Inlet will not turn to the justice system to deal with recent allegations of child sexual abuse.

"We decided we didn't need to go through the system, the courts and all, because justice would not be done," Chief Katie Rich said. "In the white man's system, there would be one winner and one loser. Nothing is gained for the victim. We will deal with the problem. You have to keep in mind that both the victim and the abuser need help. The abuser is sick and needs help."

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Leaders of the remote village of Davis Inlet will not turn to the justice system to deal with recent allegations of child sexual abuse.

"We decided we didn't need to go through the system, the courts and all, because justice would not be done," Chief Katie Rich said. "In the white man's system, there would be one winner and one loser. Nothing is gained for the victim. We will deal with the problem. You have to keep in mind that both the victim and the abuser need help. The abuser is sick and needs help."

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Leaders of the remote village of Davis Inlet will not turn to the justice system to deal with recent allegations of child sexual abuse.

"We decided we didn't need to go through the system, the courts and all, because justice would not be done," Chief Katie Rich said. "In the white man's system, there would be one winner and one loser. Nothing is gained for the victim. We will deal with the problem. You have to keep in mind that both the victim and the abuser need help. The abuser is sick and needs help."

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Leaders of the remote village of Davis Inlet will not turn to the justice system to deal with recent allegations of child sexual abuse.

"We decided we didn't need to go through the system, the courts and all, because justice would not be done," Chief Katie Rich said. "In the white man's system, there would be one winner and one loser. Nothing is gained for the victim. We will deal with the problem. You have to keep in mind that both the victim and the abuser need help. The abuser is sick and needs help."

Ottawa's move angers non-Native commercial fishermen

Ottawa is allocating a larger catch of fish to West Coast Natives this year.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced July 9 it will allocate additional amounts of the coveted sockeye salmon catch to Native groups under its Aboriginal Fishing Strategy.

Under Ottawa's pilot sales program, bands of the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority between Tsawwassen and Sawmill Creek were awarded a license to catch 430,000 sockeye salmon.