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Canada will pay 70 per cent of the total damage amounts owing to victims of physical and sexual abuse in residential schools, but only if the victims get involved in an out-of-court settlement or an alternative dispute resolution process.

The decision was announced on Oct. 29 by Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray. Gray was appointed to head a government body that was created especially to deal with residential school compensation issues-the Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution-in September 2000.

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All sides have to change the way they look at things if treaty talks are to accelerate to an acceptable pace.

That's the message that emerged after two days of high level discussion about ideas that might be able to drive treaty negotiations towards reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interests in Canada and around the world.

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All sides have to change the way they look at things if treaty talks are to accelerate to an acceptable pace.

That's the message that emerged after two days of high level discussion about ideas that might be able to drive treaty negotiations towards reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interests in Canada and around the world.

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All sides have to change the way they look at things if treaty talks are to accelerate to an acceptable pace.

That's the message that emerged after two days of high level discussion about ideas that might be able to drive treaty negotiations towards reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interests in Canada and around the world.

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All sides have to change the way they look at things if treaty talks are to accelerate to an acceptable pace.

That's the message that emerged after two days of high level discussion about ideas that might be able to drive treaty negotiations towards reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interests in Canada and around the world.

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The Indigenous Bar Association's 13th annual conference, hosted at downtown Vancouver's scenic waterfront district on Oct. 19 and 20, gave the country's leading Aboriginal practitioners of the art of treaty making a chance to update Aboriginal lawyers on the latest news and trends in their field.

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The Indigenous Bar Association's 13th annual conference, hosted at downtown Vancouver's scenic waterfront district on Oct. 19 and 20, gave the country's leading Aboriginal practitioners of the art of treaty making a chance to update Aboriginal lawyers on the latest news and trends in their field.

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The Indigenous Bar Association's 13th annual conference, hosted at downtown Vancouver's scenic waterfront district on Oct. 19 and 20, gave the country's leading Aboriginal practitioners of the art of treaty making a chance to update Aboriginal lawyers on the latest news and trends in their field.

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The Indigenous Bar Association's 13th annual conference, hosted at downtown Vancouver's scenic waterfront district on Oct. 19 and 20, gave the country's leading Aboriginal practitioners of the art of treaty making a chance to update Aboriginal lawyers on the latest news and trends in their field.

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The chiefs of the Okanagan Nation Alliance say it is the first time they can remember the federal government keeping a promise, but now that the seven non-treaty bands have had their sacred lake returned to them they are commending federal negotiators for a job well done.

The federal government will pay $720,000 to purchase Spotted Lake, near the town of Osoyoos, on behalf of the Alliance. The deal was announced on Oct. 26, said Osoyoos Chief Clarence Louie.