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July 15. Mark it on your calendars. That's the deadline Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has set for the provinces to agree to a set of constitutional reform proposals.

If the day passes without a deal, Ottawa is going to pick up the unity ball and run on its own. It will draft its own solution to the country's constitutional woes, which may or may not reflect the past year of negotiations.

The scenario is becoming increasingly likely with the bargaining table deadlock over Senate reform.

That could spell trouble for the First Nations.

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July 15. Mark it on your calendars. That's the deadline Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has set for the provinces to agree to a set of constitutional reform proposals.

If the day passes without a deal, Ottawa is going to pick up the unity ball and run on its own. It will draft its own solution to the country's constitutional woes, which may or may not reflect the past year of negotiations.

The scenario is becoming increasingly likely with the bargaining table deadlock over Senate reform.

That could spell trouble for the First Nations.

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July 15. Mark it on your calendars. That's the deadline Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has set for the provinces to agree to a set of constitutional reform proposals.

If the day passes without a deal, Ottawa is going to pick up the unity ball and run on its own. It will draft its own solution to the country's constitutional woes, which may or may not reflect the past year of negotiations.

The scenario is becoming increasingly likely with the bargaining table deadlock over Senate reform.

That could spell trouble for the First Nations.

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July 15. Mark it on your calendars. That's the deadline Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has set for the provinces to agree to a set of constitutional reform proposals.

If the day passes without a deal, Ottawa is going to pick up the unity ball and run on its own. It will draft its own solution to the country's constitutional woes, which may or may not reflect the past year of negotiations.

The scenario is becoming increasingly likely with the bargaining table deadlock over Senate reform.

That could spell trouble for the First Nations.

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The British Columbia government slapped a quota on the amount of tax-free cigarettes retailers can sell to status Natives following a provincial appeal court ruling.

Retailers will now be limited to 1,000 cartons of cigarettes per month for tax-free sale, the B.C. government announced. Finance Minister Glen Clark said the measure will stem the $3.9 million monthly tax loss on tax-exempt items.

The decision reverses a 1991 B.C. supreme court ruling involving a Port Alberni band that had given retailers the right to sell unlimited quantities of gas and tobacco.

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The British Columbia government slapped a quota on the amount of tax-free cigarettes retailers can sell to status Natives following a provincial appeal court ruling.

Retailers will now be limited to 1,000 cartons of cigarettes per month for tax-free sale, the B.C. government announced. Finance Minister Glen Clark said the measure will stem the $3.9 million monthly tax loss on tax-exempt items.

The decision reverses a 1991 B.C. supreme court ruling involving a Port Alberni band that had given retailers the right to sell unlimited quantities of gas and tobacco.

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The British Columbia government slapped a quota on the amount of tax-free cigarettes retailers can sell to status Natives following a provincial appeal court ruling.

Retailers will now be limited to 1,000 cartons of cigarettes per month for tax-free sale, the B.C. government announced. Finance Minister Glen Clark said the measure will stem the $3.9 million monthly tax loss on tax-exempt items.

The decision reverses a 1991 B.C. supreme court ruling involving a Port Alberni band that had given retailers the right to sell unlimited quantities of gas and tobacco.

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The British Columbia government slapped a quota on the amount of tax-free cigarettes retailers can sell to status Natives following a provincial appeal court ruling.

Retailers will now be limited to 1,000 cartons of cigarettes per month for tax-free sale, the B.C. government announced. Finance Minister Glen Clark said the measure will stem the $3.9 million monthly tax loss on tax-exempt items.

The decision reverses a 1991 B.C. supreme court ruling involving a Port Alberni band that had given retailers the right to sell unlimited quantities of gas and tobacco.

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Thirty people blockading a northern Saskatchewan highway to protest clear-cut logging were arrested in a late-night RCMP raid involving 80 officers in riot gear.

Organizer Brian Ratt said the protesters, including some Native elders, were "aghast" at the show of force by the RCMP.

According to RCMP press statements, the arrests were peaceful and calm prevailed throughout the next day.

"Things have been quiet today...Nobody has been hurt and that's the important thing," said Meadow Lake RCMP Sgt. Doug Urquhart.

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Thirty people blockading a northern Saskatchewan highway to protest clear-cut logging were arrested in a late-night RCMP raid involving 80 officers in riot gear.

Organizer Brian Ratt said the protesters, including some Native elders, were "aghast" at the show of force by the RCMP.

According to RCMP press statements, the arrests were peaceful and calm prevailed throughout the next day.

"Things have been quiet today...Nobody has been hurt and that's the important thing," said Meadow Lake RCMP Sgt. Doug Urquhart.