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The federal government's decision to almost triple the number of

low-level training flights over Labrador has outraged the Innu who live

and hunt in the area.

The announcement is just another "sad chapter" in the history of

relations between the Innu and the Europeans, said Daniel Ashini, Innu

nation spokesman.

Defence Minister David Collenette said Ottawa will negotiate with its

NATO allies to increase the flights from the current 7,000 to 18,000 a

year.

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The federal government's decision to almost triple the number of

low-level training flights over Labrador has outraged the Innu who live

and hunt in the area.

The announcement is just another "sad chapter" in the history of

relations between the Innu and the Europeans, said Daniel Ashini, Innu

nation spokesman.

Defence Minister David Collenette said Ottawa will negotiate with its

NATO allies to increase the flights from the current 7,000 to 18,000 a

year.

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The federal government's decision to almost triple the number of

low-level training flights over Labrador has outraged the Innu who live

and hunt in the area.

The announcement is just another "sad chapter" in the history of

relations between the Innu and the Europeans, said Daniel Ashini, Innu

nation spokesman.

Defence Minister David Collenette said Ottawa will negotiate with its

NATO allies to increase the flights from the current 7,000 to 18,000 a

year.

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In a sexual abuse case the judge called the worst he'd seen in his 45

years on the bench, 77 year-old Arthur Plint was jailed for 11 years for

assaulting boys at a former residential school on Vancouver Island.

The trial brought to light harrowing tales of abuse:

How Plint, a supervisor from 1947-1968 at the federal Alberni Indian

Residential School run by the United Church, bribed children with

chocolate bars to perform oral sex on him and severely beat others late

at night, often when he was drunk.

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In a sexual abuse case the judge called the worst he'd seen in his 45

years on the bench, 77 year-old Arthur Plint was jailed for 11 years for

assaulting boys at a former residential school on Vancouver Island.

The trial brought to light harrowing tales of abuse:

How Plint, a supervisor from 1947-1968 at the federal Alberni Indian

Residential School run by the United Church, bribed children with

chocolate bars to perform oral sex on him and severely beat others late

at night, often when he was drunk.

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In a sexual abuse case the judge called the worst he'd seen in his 45

years on the bench, 77 year-old Arthur Plint was jailed for 11 years for

assaulting boys at a former residential school on Vancouver Island.

The trial brought to light harrowing tales of abuse:

How Plint, a supervisor from 1947-1968 at the federal Alberni Indian

Residential School run by the United Church, bribed children with

chocolate bars to perform oral sex on him and severely beat others late

at night, often when he was drunk.

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On the day that Gary Filmon's third-term Progressive Conservative

government opened the legislature in Manitoba, Northern and Native

Affairs Minister Darren Praznick predicted that the next five years

would bring few changes. He denied responsibility for many issues

involving Native people, saying they are a federal matter.

"I think it's important to appreciate the jurisdictional boundaries,"

Praznick said, referring to the phasing out of the federal Department of

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On the day that Gary Filmon's third-term Progressive Conservative

government opened the legislature in Manitoba, Northern and Native

Affairs Minister Darren Praznick predicted that the next five years

would bring few changes. He denied responsibility for many issues

involving Native people, saying they are a federal matter.

"I think it's important to appreciate the jurisdictional boundaries,"

Praznick said, referring to the phasing out of the federal Department of

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On the day that Gary Filmon's third-term Progressive Conservative

government opened the legislature in Manitoba, Northern and Native

Affairs Minister Darren Praznick predicted that the next five years

would bring few changes. He denied responsibility for many issues

involving Native people, saying they are a federal matter.

"I think it's important to appreciate the jurisdictional boundaries,"

Praznick said, referring to the phasing out of the federal Department of

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The Nanoose First Nation and a Vancouver Island developer have agreed

on a deal that allows construction to continue at a condominium project

on a Native burial site that's thousands of years old.

The tentative deal is the latest move in a battle between the band and

IntraWest Development Corp. over Craig Bay Estates near Parksville, a

scenic resort town north of Nanaimo on the east coast of the Island.

The builder had been given approval to build 500 housing units on the

private 70-hectare property.