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Ottawa will ask Canadians to vote on the national unity package Oct. 26 in a national referendum.

The federal government is looking for a simple answer - either a yes or a no.

But the process people will have to follow to arrive at one of those two words is long

and complicated.

And it is not being made easier by the doom-sayers who want your vote. On

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The Indian Association of Alberta has been forced to lay off staff and cut salaries as it faces a growing deficit crunch stemming from a re-organization of government funding.

"It's going to hurt," said association president Regena Crowchild. "But we have a mandate to keep going and we will."

The association's financial woes began in 1991 when Ottawa slashed its $1 million annual budget to fund treaty chiefs directly at the regional level.

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The Indian Association of Alberta has been forced to lay off staff and cut salaries as it faces a growing deficit crunch stemming from a re-organization of government funding.

"It's going to hurt," said association president Regena Crowchild. "But we have a mandate to keep going and we will."

The association's financial woes began in 1991 when Ottawa slashed its $1 million annual budget to fund treaty chiefs directly at the regional level.

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The Indian Association of Alberta has been forced to lay off staff and cut salaries as it faces a growing deficit crunch stemming from a re-organization of government funding.

"It's going to hurt," said association president Regena Crowchild. "But we have a mandate to keep going and we will."

The association's financial woes began in 1991 when Ottawa slashed its $1 million annual budget to fund treaty chiefs directly at the regional level.

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The Indian Association of Alberta has been forced to lay off staff and cut salaries as it faces a growing deficit crunch stemming from a re-organization of government funding.

"It's going to hurt," said association president Regena Crowchild. "But we have a mandate to keep going and we will."

The association's financial woes began in 1991 when Ottawa slashed its $1 million annual budget to fund treaty chiefs directly at the regional level.

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In a chilly, windswept field federal officials and members of the Samson Cree Nation gathered last week to break the hard ground where Canada's first Native-run federal prison will be built.

"I want to see the bulldozer pull up right behind us as we leave. I want to see bricks and mortar," said federal Solicitor General Doug Lewis, who announced the

project in January.

In a speech that started out as a plug for the unity agreement that will be the subject of a national referendum Oct. 26, Lewis called the prison project "bold and unique."

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In a chilly, windswept field federal officials and members of the Samson Cree Nation gathered last week to break the hard ground where Canada's first Native-run federal prison will be built.

"I want to see the bulldozer pull up right behind us as we leave. I want to see bricks and mortar," said federal Solicitor General Doug Lewis, who announced the

project in January.

In a speech that started out as a plug for the unity agreement that will be the subject of a national referendum Oct. 26, Lewis called the prison project "bold and unique."

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In a chilly, windswept field federal officials and members of the Samson Cree Nation gathered last week to break the hard ground where Canada's first Native-run federal prison will be built.

"I want to see the bulldozer pull up right behind us as we leave. I want to see bricks and mortar," said federal Solicitor General Doug Lewis, who announced the

project in January.

In a speech that started out as a plug for the unity agreement that will be the subject of a national referendum Oct. 26, Lewis called the prison project "bold and unique."

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In a chilly, windswept field federal officials and members of the Samson Cree Nation gathered last week to break the hard ground where Canada's first Native-run federal prison will be built.

"I want to see the bulldozer pull up right behind us as we leave. I want to see bricks and mortar," said federal Solicitor General Doug Lewis, who announced the

project in January.

In a speech that started out as a plug for the unity agreement that will be the subject of a national referendum Oct. 26, Lewis called the prison project "bold and unique."

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Decades of alleged mistreatment at the hands of governments and police will be the subject of a soon-to-be announced public inquiry in British Columbia.

Final arrangements are being hammered out between the provincial government and three interior bands, who say they have received rough and unequal treatment for the last 20 years.

"This is the first overall investigation," said Francis Lacesse, chief of the Chilcotin Toosey band.

"Our people want to get this out of the way once and for all."