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Canada boasts of having one of the highest living standards in the world. I guess someone should tell those people living at Davis Inlet that they're not quite making it as Canadians. The living conditions of the Innu people are absolutely appalling and it's a disgrace that it's happening in Canada. These conditions are to be expected in Third World countries. It must be very embarrassing for the Canadian government when tragedies like the Innu incident make national headlines.

Tragedy is nothing new to the Innu people of Labrador, nor is it isolated to the

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The plight of the Inn at Davis Inlet once again brought attention to the issue of Native rights and the deplorable conditions many aboriginals find themselves living in.

The conditions that the 500 residents in the remote northern community endure

are frightening.

They've been moved off their traditional hunting grounds, shunted around the province over a period of almost 50 years and now live on the edge of a desolate, rocky island where self-sufficiency is all but impossible.

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The plight of the Inn at Davis Inlet once again brought attention to the issue of Native rights and the deplorable conditions many aboriginals find themselves living in.

The conditions that the 500 residents in the remote northern community endure

are frightening.

They've been moved off their traditional hunting grounds, shunted around the province over a period of almost 50 years and now live on the edge of a desolate, rocky island where self-sufficiency is all but impossible.

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The plight of the Inn at Davis Inlet once again brought attention to the issue of Native rights and the deplorable conditions many aboriginals find themselves living in.

The conditions that the 500 residents in the remote northern community endure

are frightening.

They've been moved off their traditional hunting grounds, shunted around the province over a period of almost 50 years and now live on the edge of a desolate, rocky island where self-sufficiency is all but impossible.

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The plight of the Inn at Davis Inlet once again brought attention to the issue of Native rights and the deplorable conditions many aboriginals find themselves living in.

The conditions that the 500 residents in the remote northern community endure

are frightening.

They've been moved off their traditional hunting grounds, shunted around the province over a period of almost 50 years and now live on the edge of a desolate, rocky island where self-sufficiency is all but impossible.

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Some members of the B.C. Fishermen's Survival Coalition are upset that the federal government did not allow them to attend a meeting with Native representatives earlier this month.

Phillip Eibsvik, a spokesman for the coalition, said two members of the group showed up at the Feb. 5 meeting between Fisheries Minister John Crosbie and band chiefs of the Fraser River watershed area, but they were not allowed to enter.

The two FSC members spent about 30 minutes talking with ministry representative Colin Metcalfe before leaving.

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Some members of the B.C. Fishermen's Survival Coalition are upset that the federal government did not allow them to attend a meeting with Native representatives earlier this month.

Phillip Eibsvik, a spokesman for the coalition, said two members of the group showed up at the Feb. 5 meeting between Fisheries Minister John Crosbie and band chiefs of the Fraser River watershed area, but they were not allowed to enter.

The two FSC members spent about 30 minutes talking with ministry representative Colin Metcalfe before leaving.

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Some members of the B.C. Fishermen's Survival Coalition are upset that the federal government did not allow them to attend a meeting with Native representatives earlier this month.

Phillip Eibsvik, a spokesman for the coalition, said two members of the group showed up at the Feb. 5 meeting between Fisheries Minister John Crosbie and band chiefs of the Fraser River watershed area, but they were not allowed to enter.

The two FSC members spent about 30 minutes talking with ministry representative Colin Metcalfe before leaving.

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Some members of the B.C. Fishermen's Survival Coalition are upset that the federal government did not allow them to attend a meeting with Native representatives earlier this month.

Phillip Eibsvik, a spokesman for the coalition, said two members of the group showed up at the Feb. 5 meeting between Fisheries Minister John Crosbie and band chiefs of the Fraser River watershed area, but they were not allowed to enter.

The two FSC members spent about 30 minutes talking with ministry representative Colin Metcalfe before leaving.

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Children from the remote community of Davis Inlet are heading for Alberta to

be treated for solvent addiction.

Fourteen youths, accompanied by their parents, Elders and translators, are scheduled to begin arriving at Poundmaker's Lodge in mid-February to begin 90 days

of addiction counselling, the lodge's executive director said.

"The community is very interested in healing," said Pat Shirt.

"Our goal is to get Davis Inlet their own treatment program - get their own

people helping their own people."