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Across Canada, First Nations are increasingly anxious to set up on-reserve gambling facilities to reduce chronically high levels of unemployment and to generate much-needed income and economic development.

But based on a fundamental analysis of business and market factors and trends already evident in the U.S., Native-run gambling businesses may prove to be more of a Trojan Horse than the "second coming of the buffalo" as some promoters have described it.

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Across Canada, First Nations are increasingly anxious to set up on-reserve gambling facilities to reduce chronically high levels of unemployment and to generate much-needed income and economic development.

But based on a fundamental analysis of business and market factors and trends already evident in the U.S., Native-run gambling businesses may prove to be more of a Trojan Horse than the "second coming of the buffalo" as some promoters have described it.

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Across Canada, First Nations are increasingly anxious to set up on-reserve gambling facilities to reduce chronically high levels of unemployment and to generate much-needed income and economic development.

But based on a fundamental analysis of business and market factors and trends already evident in the U.S., Native-run gambling businesses may prove to be more of a Trojan Horse than the "second coming of the buffalo" as some promoters have described it.

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Across Canada, First Nations are increasingly anxious to set up on-reserve gambling facilities to reduce chronically high levels of unemployment and to generate much-needed income and economic development.

But based on a fundamental analysis of business and market factors and trends already evident in the U.S., Native-run gambling businesses may prove to be more of a Trojan Horse than the "second coming of the buffalo" as some promoters have described it.

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A plea for increased housing on this New Brunswick reserve has met with success.

The Big Cove band has received funding for 17 housing units following the

recommendations of a recent Coroner's report into the suicide deaths of seven residents. The report was issued last fall after six residents killed themselves in as many months. Another resident committed suicide this spring.

The band was scheduled to receive funding for 10 new housing units this year, but will receive additional units following the committee's recommendations.

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A plea for increased housing on this New Brunswick reserve has met with success.

The Big Cove band has received funding for 17 housing units following the

recommendations of a recent Coroner's report into the suicide deaths of seven residents. The report was issued last fall after six residents killed themselves in as many months. Another resident committed suicide this spring.

The band was scheduled to receive funding for 10 new housing units this year, but will receive additional units following the committee's recommendations.

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A plea for increased housing on this New Brunswick reserve has met with success.

The Big Cove band has received funding for 17 housing units following the

recommendations of a recent Coroner's report into the suicide deaths of seven residents. The report was issued last fall after six residents killed themselves in as many months. Another resident committed suicide this spring.

The band was scheduled to receive funding for 10 new housing units this year, but will receive additional units following the committee's recommendations.

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A plea for increased housing on this New Brunswick reserve has met with success.

The Big Cove band has received funding for 17 housing units following the

recommendations of a recent Coroner's report into the suicide deaths of seven residents. The report was issued last fall after six residents killed themselves in as many months. Another resident committed suicide this spring.

The band was scheduled to receive funding for 10 new housing units this year, but will receive additional units following the committee's recommendations.

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A twenty-year fight to receive compensation for the destruction of their environment may end this month for the people of Pictou Landing.

The small community will vote in referendum on accepting a $35 million package from the federal government on July 5. Ottawa offered the deal in exchange for the band dropping a lawsuit over industrial pollution which changed a tidal lagoon on the reserve into a reeking mass of water, unable to support aquatic life.

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A twenty-year fight to receive compensation for the destruction of their environment may end this month for the people of Pictou Landing.

The small community will vote in referendum on accepting a $35 million package from the federal government on July 5. Ottawa offered the deal in exchange for the band dropping a lawsuit over industrial pollution which changed a tidal lagoon on the reserve into a reeking mass of water, unable to support aquatic life.