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Pikiskwe

The climate for aboriginal business is changing. Last week I attended the Ovide Mercredi dinner in support of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO). The theme for the dinner was "doing business in aboriginal communities."

I was mildly surprised. Usually, one attends these dinners to find out what everyone else has been up to since the last time one attended these dinners. This time there were a lot of non-Natives and they were there to find out about "doing business in aboriginal communities."

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Pikiskwe

The climate for aboriginal business is changing. Last week I attended the Ovide Mercredi dinner in support of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO). The theme for the dinner was "doing business in aboriginal communities."

I was mildly surprised. Usually, one attends these dinners to find out what everyone else has been up to since the last time one attended these dinners. This time there were a lot of non-Natives and they were there to find out about "doing business in aboriginal communities."

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Pikiskwe

The climate for aboriginal business is changing. Last week I attended the Ovide Mercredi dinner in support of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO). The theme for the dinner was "doing business in aboriginal communities."

I was mildly surprised. Usually, one attends these dinners to find out what everyone else has been up to since the last time one attended these dinners. This time there were a lot of non-Natives and they were there to find out about "doing business in aboriginal communities."

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Pikiskwe

The climate for aboriginal business is changing. Last week I attended the Ovide Mercredi dinner in support of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO). The theme for the dinner was "doing business in aboriginal communities."

I was mildly surprised. Usually, one attends these dinners to find out what everyone else has been up to since the last time one attended these dinners. This time there were a lot of non-Natives and they were there to find out about "doing business in aboriginal communities."

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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples unearthed an interesting fact during their round-table discussion on Native just last week.

A study prepared for the three-day hearing found that roughly 30 studies on first nations and the law have been completed in the last 25 years.

That's more than a study a year for more than two decades. The shelf where these efforts have finally come to rest must be creaking under the weight of the collected dust.

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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples unearthed an interesting fact during their round-table discussion on Native just last week.

A study prepared for the three-day hearing found that roughly 30 studies on first nations and the law have been completed in the last 25 years.

That's more than a study a year for more than two decades. The shelf where these efforts have finally come to rest must be creaking under the weight of the collected dust.

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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples unearthed an interesting fact during their round-table discussion on Native just last week.

A study prepared for the three-day hearing found that roughly 30 studies on first nations and the law have been completed in the last 25 years.

That's more than a study a year for more than two decades. The shelf where these efforts have finally come to rest must be creaking under the weight of the collected dust.

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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples unearthed an interesting fact during their round-table discussion on Native just last week.

A study prepared for the three-day hearing found that roughly 30 studies on first nations and the law have been completed in the last 25 years.

That's more than a study a year for more than two decades. The shelf where these efforts have finally come to rest must be creaking under the weight of the collected dust.

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Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper ended his career in provincial politics last week with hints he may move into the federal arena as a national candidate for the New Democratic Party.

"When the time comes, if the Great Spirit is willing for me to run in that forum, I'll do so," Harper told reporters at a press conference ending an illustrious 11-year career in the Manitoba house.

The 42-year-old New Democrat representative for the northern Rupertland riding said he was leaving active politics to spend more time with his family and mourn his mother's recent death.

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Elections of a new chief and council on Canada's largest reserve passed peacefully despite earlier rumors of violence from a splinter group upset with the band's management.

Former chief Roy Fox was soundly defeated at the polls, ending his 10-year career as leader of the southern Alberta reserve, gaining a mere 10 per cent of the popular vote.

Harley Frank, 43, was elected chief of the 7,000-member band and began his tenure reaching out to the Mohk-e-saun breakaway group.