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Well, it's here. That wonderfully perplexing season we all know and love as Christmas has arrived for yet another financially draining year. And like every year, I tell myself "Drew, don't get caught up in the whole buying, giving, getting, eating, burping, trying to find my jacket after the last Christmas party mess."

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It's Christmas time again.

Each year, as this time approaches, I try to plan something special for my family. This year was no exception.

As I planned for this special day, I remembered my own childhood Christmases.

In my early school years, as this time grew nearer, I used to count the days till Christmas because for me the holidays meant going home. Being in an Indian residential school all year, my brothers, sisters and I looked forward to being home with family.

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Last weeks' interim agreement between the province of B.C. and Natives in Clayoquot Sound over tree harvesting was called "a landmark" by some non-Native

press and "a political coup by Premier Mike Harcourt' by others. Coup is perhaps

more appropriate.

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Last weeks' interim agreement between the province of B.C. and Natives in Clayoquot Sound over tree harvesting was called "a landmark" by some non-Native

press and "a political coup by Premier Mike Harcourt' by others. Coup is perhaps

more appropriate.

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Last weeks' interim agreement between the province of B.C. and Natives in Clayoquot Sound over tree harvesting was called "a landmark" by some non-Native

press and "a political coup by Premier Mike Harcourt' by others. Coup is perhaps

more appropriate.

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Last weeks' interim agreement between the province of B.C. and Natives in Clayoquot Sound over tree harvesting was called "a landmark" by some non-Native

press and "a political coup by Premier Mike Harcourt' by others. Coup is perhaps

more appropriate.

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Quebec must address Native issues now before tensions between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals escalate, provincial Native Affairs Minister Christos Sirros told the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

"Relations between Natives and non-Natives are worrisome, both for the Quebec government and for the population as a whole.

"There is an urgent need to act because the residents of a number of Native communities are being held hostage and the social climate has become intolerable.

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Quebec must address Native issues now before tensions between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals escalate, provincial Native Affairs Minister Christos Sirros told the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

"Relations between Natives and non-Natives are worrisome, both for the Quebec government and for the population as a whole.

"There is an urgent need to act because the residents of a number of Native communities are being held hostage and the social climate has become intolerable.

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Quebec must address Native issues now before tensions between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals escalate, provincial Native Affairs Minister Christos Sirros told the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

"Relations between Natives and non-Natives are worrisome, both for the Quebec government and for the population as a whole.

"There is an urgent need to act because the residents of a number of Native communities are being held hostage and the social climate has become intolerable.

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Quebec must address Native issues now before tensions between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals escalate, provincial Native Affairs Minister Christos Sirros told the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

"Relations between Natives and non-Natives are worrisome, both for the Quebec government and for the population as a whole.

"There is an urgent need to act because the residents of a number of Native communities are being held hostage and the social climate has become intolerable.