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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.

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Two Native women being moved from the Edmonton Remand Centre to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario are claiming their treatment is discriminatory and racially motivated.

Other federally sentenced white women in the province - those serving sentences longer than two years -- are being allowed to stay in Alberta in provincial institutions, said Helen (not her real name).

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Two Native women being moved from the Edmonton Remand Centre to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario are claiming their treatment is discriminatory and racially motivated.

Other federally sentenced white women in the province - those serving sentences longer than two years -- are being allowed to stay in Alberta in provincial institutions, said Helen (not her real name).

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Two Native women being moved from the Edmonton Remand Centre to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario are claiming their treatment is discriminatory and racially motivated.

Other federally sentenced white women in the province - those serving sentences longer than two years -- are being allowed to stay in Alberta in provincial institutions, said Helen (not her real name).

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Two Native women being moved from the Edmonton Remand Centre to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario are claiming their treatment is discriminatory and racially motivated.

Other federally sentenced white women in the province - those serving sentences longer than two years -- are being allowed to stay in Alberta in provincial institutions, said Helen (not her real name).

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Whether urban-self government should recognize distinctive Native groups or

be "status-blind" will be a key issue in off-reserve constitutional development. And the debate promises to be long and hard.

More than 100 delegates met recently in Edmonton to discuss the needs of Canada's growing off-reserve population around round table meetings sponsored by

the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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Whether urban-self government should recognize distinctive Native groups or

be "status-blind" will be a key issue in off-reserve constitutional development. And the debate promises to be long and hard.

More than 100 delegates met recently in Edmonton to discuss the needs of Canada's growing off-reserve population around round table meetings sponsored by

the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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Whether urban-self government should recognize distinctive Native groups or

be "status-blind" will be a key issue in off-reserve constitutional development. And the debate promises to be long and hard.

More than 100 delegates met recently in Edmonton to discuss the needs of Canada's growing off-reserve population around round table meetings sponsored by

the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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Whether urban-self government should recognize distinctive Native groups or

be "status-blind" will be a key issue in off-reserve constitutional development. And the debate promises to be long and hard.

More than 100 delegates met recently in Edmonton to discuss the needs of Canada's growing off-reserve population around round table meetings sponsored by

the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.