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Saskatchewan

An agreement between Saskatchewan and a forestry company establishing a partnership for co-managing timber harvests is giving Natives greater say over logging in the province's north.

Environment and Resources Management Minister Berny Wiens and NorSask Products Inc. chairman Ray Cariou signed a memorandum of understand Dec. 20 to work as partners with forestry co-management board in five northern communities.

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Saskatchewan

An agreement between Saskatchewan and a forestry company establishing a partnership for co-managing timber harvests is giving Natives greater say over logging in the province's north.

Environment and Resources Management Minister Berny Wiens and NorSask Products Inc. chairman Ray Cariou signed a memorandum of understand Dec. 20 to work as partners with forestry co-management board in five northern communities.

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Saskatchewan

An agreement between Saskatchewan and a forestry company establishing a partnership for co-managing timber harvests is giving Natives greater say over logging in the province's north.

Environment and Resources Management Minister Berny Wiens and NorSask Products Inc. chairman Ray Cariou signed a memorandum of understand Dec. 20 to work as partners with forestry co-management board in five northern communities.

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Canadian Native leaders are planning to travel to an embittered war zone in southern Mexico in support of an Indigenous uprising against the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi hopes to pressure the Mexican government into dealing with the "Indian situation and to encourage them to resolve the issue throughout negotiations."

Mercredi and four colleagues yet to be named plan to leave for the Chiapas region in southern Mexico within the next few weeks.

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Canadian Native leaders are planning to travel to an embittered war zone in southern Mexico in support of an Indigenous uprising against the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi hopes to pressure the Mexican government into dealing with the "Indian situation and to encourage them to resolve the issue throughout negotiations."

Mercredi and four colleagues yet to be named plan to leave for the Chiapas region in southern Mexico within the next few weeks.

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Canadian Native leaders are planning to travel to an embittered war zone in southern Mexico in support of an Indigenous uprising against the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi hopes to pressure the Mexican government into dealing with the "Indian situation and to encourage them to resolve the issue throughout negotiations."

Mercredi and four colleagues yet to be named plan to leave for the Chiapas region in southern Mexico within the next few weeks.

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Canadian Native leaders are planning to travel to an embittered war zone in southern Mexico in support of an Indigenous uprising against the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi hopes to pressure the Mexican government into dealing with the "Indian situation and to encourage them to resolve the issue throughout negotiations."

Mercredi and four colleagues yet to be named plan to leave for the Chiapas region in southern Mexico within the next few weeks.

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A Native law student who butted into a conversation between a lawyer and two other people when she thought she heard racial slurs does not think she had her day in court.

Nancy Dion was given a conditional discharge by provincial Justice Percy Marshall Dec. 22 after he found her guilty of assaulting a police officer and causing a public disturbance in an Edmonton restaurant last February.

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A Native law student who butted into a conversation between a lawyer and two other people when she thought she heard racial slurs does not think she had her day in court.

Nancy Dion was given a conditional discharge by provincial Justice Percy Marshall Dec. 22 after he found her guilty of assaulting a police officer and causing a public disturbance in an Edmonton restaurant last February.

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A Native law student who butted into a conversation between a lawyer and two other people when she thought she heard racial slurs does not think she had her day in court.

Nancy Dion was given a conditional discharge by provincial Justice Percy Marshall Dec. 22 after he found her guilty of assaulting a police officer and causing a public disturbance in an Edmonton restaurant last February.