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Dozens of Native people are continuing to blockade a road into a northern Saskatchewan logging area in a protest over forestry methods and community control

of timber harvests.

Residents of three communities were close to reaching a deal with Meadow Lake Tribal Council, shareholders in the company at the centre of the dispute. But talks broke down at the last moment, leaving the barricades in place and logging activity apparently at a standstill.

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Dozens of Native people are continuing to blockade a road into a northern Saskatchewan logging area in a protest over forestry methods and community control

of timber harvests.

Residents of three communities were close to reaching a deal with Meadow Lake Tribal Council, shareholders in the company at the centre of the dispute. But talks broke down at the last moment, leaving the barricades in place and logging activity apparently at a standstill.

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An inquest into the 1988 suicide of a 13-year-old boy from Sandy Bay, Man.,

has become a wide-ranging inquiry into a Native-run social services agency.

It began as a standard medical examiner's inquest into the death of a youth, who hanged himself while living in a foster home. But when examiners found the boy's files missing from the offices of the Dakota-Ojibway Family and Social Services offices, it set

a spark to explosive rumors of political interference in the delivery of on-reserve social services.

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An inquest into the 1988 suicide of a 13-year-old boy from Sandy Bay, Man.,

has become a wide-ranging inquiry into a Native-run social services agency.

It began as a standard medical examiner's inquest into the death of a youth, who hanged himself while living in a foster home. But when examiners found the boy's files missing from the offices of the Dakota-Ojibway Family and Social Services offices, it set

a spark to explosive rumors of political interference in the delivery of on-reserve social services.

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An inquest into the 1988 suicide of a 13-year-old boy from Sandy Bay, Man.,

has become a wide-ranging inquiry into a Native-run social services agency.

It began as a standard medical examiner's inquest into the death of a youth, who hanged himself while living in a foster home. But when examiners found the boy's files missing from the offices of the Dakota-Ojibway Family and Social Services offices, it set

a spark to explosive rumors of political interference in the delivery of on-reserve social services.

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An inquest into the 1988 suicide of a 13-year-old boy from Sandy Bay, Man.,

has become a wide-ranging inquiry into a Native-run social services agency.

It began as a standard medical examiner's inquest into the death of a youth, who hanged himself while living in a foster home. But when examiners found the boy's files missing from the offices of the Dakota-Ojibway Family and Social Services offices, it set

a spark to explosive rumors of political interference in the delivery of on-reserve social services.

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Little or no progress was made on settling the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim following Indian Affairs Minister Tom Saddon's recent visit to Little Buffalo.

And according to Lubicon spokesman, Fred Lennarson, the talks are still bogged down over when Ottawa will respond to the Lubicon proposals for ending the dispute.

"I don't see how we can settle if they (the federal government) don't look at the proposals," he said in an interview following the two-hour meeting at Little Buffalo.

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Little or no progress was made on settling the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim following Indian Affairs Minister Tom Saddon's recent visit to Little Buffalo.

And according to Lubicon spokesman, Fred Lennarson, the talks are still bogged down over when Ottawa will respond to the Lubicon proposals for ending the dispute.

"I don't see how we can settle if they (the federal government) don't look at the proposals," he said in an interview following the two-hour meeting at Little Buffalo.

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Little or no progress was made on settling the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim following Indian Affairs Minister Tom Saddon's recent visit to Little Buffalo.

And according to Lubicon spokesman, Fred Lennarson, the talks are still bogged down over when Ottawa will respond to the Lubicon proposals for ending the dispute.

"I don't see how we can settle if they (the federal government) don't look at the proposals," he said in an interview following the two-hour meeting at Little Buffalo.

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Little or no progress was made on settling the 50-year-old Lubicon land claim following Indian Affairs Minister Tom Saddon's recent visit to Little Buffalo.

And according to Lubicon spokesman, Fred Lennarson, the talks are still bogged down over when Ottawa will respond to the Lubicon proposals for ending the dispute.

"I don't see how we can settle if they (the federal government) don't look at the proposals," he said in an interview following the two-hour meeting at Little Buffalo.