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An Elections Canada office in southern Alberta is scrambling to sign up Blood voters for the Oct. 26 referendum after a band government decision to bar enumerators from the reserve.

"We've sort of complied with their wishes. I hope it will suffice," said Arlene Albiez, Elections Canada's chief returning officer in Lethbridge, which is responsible for compiling the voting list for the 7,000 member reserve.

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Native communities across North and South America marked the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the West with a series of protests and demonstrations.

Organized under the theme of 500 Years of Resistance, protesters, disrupted anniversary festivals, especially in the United States where Columbus is celebrated annually as a tribute to Italian-Americans.

"We're not going to celebrate Columbus. We are going to be there to mourn,"

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Native communities across North and South America marked the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the West with a series of protests and demonstrations.

Organized under the theme of 500 Years of Resistance, protesters, disrupted anniversary festivals, especially in the United States where Columbus is celebrated annually as a tribute to Italian-Americans.

"We're not going to celebrate Columbus. We are going to be there to mourn,"

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Native communities across North and South America marked the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the West with a series of protests and demonstrations.

Organized under the theme of 500 Years of Resistance, protesters, disrupted anniversary festivals, especially in the United States where Columbus is celebrated annually as a tribute to Italian-Americans.

"We're not going to celebrate Columbus. We are going to be there to mourn,"

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Native communities across North and South America marked the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the West with a series of protests and demonstrations.

Organized under the theme of 500 Years of Resistance, protesters, disrupted anniversary festivals, especially in the United States where Columbus is celebrated annually as a tribute to Italian-Americans.

"We're not going to celebrate Columbus. We are going to be there to mourn,"

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RCMP Sgt. Dan Zazulak, who was in charge of the Wilson Nepoose murder investigation, admitted to the court he lied at last year's inquiry into the case.

Nepoose claims he was framed for the 1986 murder of Marie Rose Desjarlais

and his conviction was false. Alberta's appeal court ordered a new trial after concluding his trial was unfair, but the provincial government decided to drop the charges. The Hobbema man was released from prison late in 1991.

Zazulak is on trial in Edmonton for perjury.

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RCMP Sgt. Dan Zazulak, who was in charge of the Wilson Nepoose murder investigation, admitted to the court he lied at last year's inquiry into the case.

Nepoose claims he was framed for the 1986 murder of Marie Rose Desjarlais

and his conviction was false. Alberta's appeal court ordered a new trial after concluding his trial was unfair, but the provincial government decided to drop the charges. The Hobbema man was released from prison late in 1991.

Zazulak is on trial in Edmonton for perjury.

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RCMP Sgt. Dan Zazulak, who was in charge of the Wilson Nepoose murder investigation, admitted to the court he lied at last year's inquiry into the case.

Nepoose claims he was framed for the 1986 murder of Marie Rose Desjarlais

and his conviction was false. Alberta's appeal court ordered a new trial after concluding his trial was unfair, but the provincial government decided to drop the charges. The Hobbema man was released from prison late in 1991.

Zazulak is on trial in Edmonton for perjury.

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RCMP Sgt. Dan Zazulak, who was in charge of the Wilson Nepoose murder investigation, admitted to the court he lied at last year's inquiry into the case.

Nepoose claims he was framed for the 1986 murder of Marie Rose Desjarlais

and his conviction was false. Alberta's appeal court ordered a new trial after concluding his trial was unfair, but the provincial government decided to drop the charges. The Hobbema man was released from prison late in 1991.

Zazulak is on trial in Edmonton for perjury.

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The federal government alleges Native land claims and settlements would cost at least $12 billion, and that doesn't include the cost of self-government.

According to a section of the Public Accounts of Canada, the government has budgeted for $10.7 billion for expropriation of land claimed by Natives and other claims

in a total of 85 lawsuits, a Toronto newspaper recently reported.

Native settlements and claims in the two territories will add at least another $1.2 billion, the documents show.