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Governments are resisting the new reality of Aboriginal title and they're getting away with it because Aboriginal people aren't being aggressive enough, a British Columbia chief says.

Chief Ray Hance, a Tsilhot'in National Government co-ordinator, believes it's make-it-or-break-it time for First Nations. His tribal group of six British Columbia Interior First Nation communities, with offices in Williams Lake, B.C., is making plans to turn up the heat on the provincial and federal governments.

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Governments are resisting the new reality of Aboriginal title and they're getting away with it because Aboriginal people aren't being aggressive enough, a British Columbia chief says.

Chief Ray Hance, a Tsilhot'in National Government co-ordinator, believes it's make-it-or-break-it time for First Nations. His tribal group of six British Columbia Interior First Nation communities, with offices in Williams Lake, B.C., is making plans to turn up the heat on the provincial and federal governments.

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The Assembly of First Nations wants British Columbia publishing magnate David Black to make some room on his mantel for an annual journalistic "booby prize."

Black, who owns three companies that control 60 newspapers in British Columbia and one Alberta newspaper, has told his editors that any editorials and opinions in their papers on the Nisga'a Final Agreement can only contain anti-treaty sentiment.

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The Assembly of First Nations wants British Columbia publishing magnate David Black to make some room on his mantel for an annual journalistic "booby prize."

Black, who owns three companies that control 60 newspapers in British Columbia and one Alberta newspaper, has told his editors that any editorials and opinions in their papers on the Nisga'a Final Agreement can only contain anti-treaty sentiment.

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The Assembly of First Nations wants British Columbia publishing magnate David Black to make some room on his mantel for an annual journalistic "booby prize."

Black, who owns three companies that control 60 newspapers in British Columbia and one Alberta newspaper, has told his editors that any editorials and opinions in their papers on the Nisga'a Final Agreement can only contain anti-treaty sentiment.

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A dual-track school offering Cree immersion, and English and basic Cree, plans to open its doors in Thompson this September.

Eastwood School will be converted into a Cree bilingual community school. Cree language programming will be offered for kindergarten only for the 2001-2002 school year, but the intent is to add such programming at successive grade levels each year.

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A dual-track school offering Cree immersion, and English and basic Cree, plans to open its doors in Thompson this September.

Eastwood School will be converted into a Cree bilingual community school. Cree language programming will be offered for kindergarten only for the 2001-2002 school year, but the intent is to add such programming at successive grade levels each year.

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Peggy Smith is excited about seeing more Aboriginal people involved in forestry practices in Canada, she said. Their voices will have a tremendous impact on the way the industry conducts itself in the future.

Smith is with the faculty of forestry and the forest environment at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. There she examines the roles and responsibilities of Aboriginal groups, the forest industry, the provincial government and environmental non-governmental organizations in northwestern Ontario.

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Peggy Smith is excited about seeing more Aboriginal people involved in forestry practices in Canada, she said. Their voices will have a tremendous impact on the way the industry conducts itself in the future.

Smith is with the faculty of forestry and the forest environment at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. There she examines the roles and responsibilities of Aboriginal groups, the forest industry, the provincial government and environmental non-governmental organizations in northwestern Ontario.

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Smoking meat has long been a tradition for the Metis and in particular the Bennett family.

"My mother was an expert at it," said Art Yancey Bennett.

That's why the smoked meat business was an obvious choice for Bennett when he found himself without a job when the mines at Elliott Lake in northern Ontario closed a decade ago.

Armed with his severance pay and his life savings, Bennett bought a building and began to renovate it to turn it into a facility where he could apply the skills he had learned from his mother.