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The editor of a northern Native newspaper is being forced to testify at trials of people charged at a picket line riot and fears the court appearances could send a chill over future coverage.

"I certainly think this could have the effect of muzzling the press," said Lee Selleck, editor of the western Arctic Press Independent newspaper.

"I'm going to spend a lot of time in court that I can't spend covering this story."

Selleck has been subpoenaed to testify in several cases stemming from a June

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The editor of a northern Native newspaper is being forced to testify at trials of people charged at a picket line riot and fears the court appearances could send a chill over future coverage.

"I certainly think this could have the effect of muzzling the press," said Lee Selleck, editor of the western Arctic Press Independent newspaper.

"I'm going to spend a lot of time in court that I can't spend covering this story."

Selleck has been subpoenaed to testify in several cases stemming from a June

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The editor of a northern Native newspaper is being forced to testify at trials of people charged at a picket line riot and fears the court appearances could send a chill over future coverage.

"I certainly think this could have the effect of muzzling the press," said Lee Selleck, editor of the western Arctic Press Independent newspaper.

"I'm going to spend a lot of time in court that I can't spend covering this story."

Selleck has been subpoenaed to testify in several cases stemming from a June

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The editor of a northern Native newspaper is being forced to testify at trials of people charged at a picket line riot and fears the court appearances could send a chill over future coverage.

"I certainly think this could have the effect of muzzling the press," said Lee Selleck, editor of the western Arctic Press Independent newspaper.

"I'm going to spend a lot of time in court that I can't spend covering this story."

Selleck has been subpoenaed to testify in several cases stemming from a June

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Inuit in the Northwest Territories overwhelmingly supported their land claim in a ratification vote on the agreement which will eventually lead to the creation of an Inuit homeland called Nunavut.

Almost 70 per cent of the largely Inuit populatin voted in favor of the deal, which will give them surface rights to 350,000 square kilometres of land and more than $1 billion in compensation over 14 years.

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Inuit in the Northwest Territories overwhelmingly supported their land claim in a ratification vote on the agreement which will eventually lead to the creation of an Inuit homeland called Nunavut.

Almost 70 per cent of the largely Inuit populatin voted in favor of the deal, which will give them surface rights to 350,000 square kilometres of land and more than $1 billion in compensation over 14 years.

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Inuit in the Northwest Territories overwhelmingly supported their land claim in a ratification vote on the agreement which will eventually lead to the creation of an Inuit homeland called Nunavut.

Almost 70 per cent of the largely Inuit populatin voted in favor of the deal, which will give them surface rights to 350,000 square kilometres of land and more than $1 billion in compensation over 14 years.

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Inuit in the Northwest Territories overwhelmingly supported their land claim in a ratification vote on the agreement which will eventually lead to the creation of an Inuit homeland called Nunavut.

Almost 70 per cent of the largely Inuit populatin voted in favor of the deal, which will give them surface rights to 350,000 square kilometres of land and more than $1 billion in compensation over 14 years.

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A settlement of the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim should include the hotly disputed compensation package that has dead-locked current negotiations, a former Conservative cabinet member says.

"Any settlement has to take into account the facts of the treatment to which the Lubicon have been exposed," said E. Davie Fulton, who write a mid-80s government report on the Lubicon for then Indian Affairs Minister John Crombie.

"I'm dreadfully sorry about this instance. I hope it's the only one in the history

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A settlement of the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim should include the hotly disputed compensation package that has dead-locked current negotiations, a former Conservative cabinet member says.

"Any settlement has to take into account the facts of the treatment to which the Lubicon have been exposed," said E. Davie Fulton, who write a mid-80s government report on the Lubicon for then Indian Affairs Minister John Crombie.

"I'm dreadfully sorry about this instance. I hope it's the only one in the history