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The Government of the NorthWest Territories has designed a program to encourage sterilization victims to come forward.

About 2,800 women were sterilized without their permission under the Sexual Sterilization Act between 1928 and 1972. Another 400 women were sterilized in British Columbia under the same law. The act was then repelled.

The procedure was performed if the patients were diagnosed with mental deficiencies. It was ordered by a eugenics board that believed sterilization was the best way to prevent producing defective children.

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The Government of the NorthWest Territories has designed a program to encourage sterilization victims to come forward.

About 2,800 women were sterilized without their permission under the Sexual Sterilization Act between 1928 and 1972. Another 400 women were sterilized in British Columbia under the same law. The act was then repelled.

The procedure was performed if the patients were diagnosed with mental deficiencies. It was ordered by a eugenics board that believed sterilization was the best way to prevent producing defective children.

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The Government of the NorthWest Territories has designed a program to encourage sterilization victims to come forward.

About 2,800 women were sterilized without their permission under the Sexual Sterilization Act between 1928 and 1972. Another 400 women were sterilized in British Columbia under the same law. The act was then repelled.

The procedure was performed if the patients were diagnosed with mental deficiencies. It was ordered by a eugenics board that believed sterilization was the best way to prevent producing defective children.

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After spending almost 10 years fighting rape and indecent assault charges, Roman Catholic Bishop Hubert O'Connor publicly confessed and apologized for his crimes on June 15.

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After spending almost 10 years fighting rape and indecent assault charges, Roman Catholic Bishop Hubert O'Connor publicly confessed and apologized for his crimes on June 15.

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After spending almost 10 years fighting rape and indecent assault charges, Roman Catholic Bishop Hubert O'Connor publicly confessed and apologized for his crimes on June 15.

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First Nations people in Quebec refuse to accept the Quebec government's guarantee that a recent change on how tobacco taxes are collected in the province will not infringe on their rights.

Andre Corivelau, spokesperson for the Quebec minister of Finance, insists the change in the administration of the province's tobacco tax law is merely a way of ending tax evasion associated with the illegal trade in tobacco products. She said it will not interfere with the tax-exemption right of Aboriginal people stated in Section 87 of the federal Indian Act.

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First Nations people in Quebec refuse to accept the Quebec government's guarantee that a recent change on how tobacco taxes are collected in the province will not infringe on their rights.

Andre Corivelau, spokesperson for the Quebec minister of Finance, insists the change in the administration of the province's tobacco tax law is merely a way of ending tax evasion associated with the illegal trade in tobacco products. She said it will not interfere with the tax-exemption right of Aboriginal people stated in Section 87 of the federal Indian Act.

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First Nations people in Quebec refuse to accept the Quebec government's guarantee that a recent change on how tobacco taxes are collected in the province will not infringe on their rights.

Andre Corivelau, spokesperson for the Quebec minister of Finance, insists the change in the administration of the province's tobacco tax law is merely a way of ending tax evasion associated with the illegal trade in tobacco products. She said it will not interfere with the tax-exemption right of Aboriginal people stated in Section 87 of the federal Indian Act.

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Some residential school survivors say Canada's apology for physical and sexual abuse, supposedly a gesture of reconciliation to Indigenous people, has made their lives even harder.

For many, the dizzying landscape of complex choices surrounding the entire compensation issue - to sue or not to sue, negotiation and mediation versus litigation, class actions versus individual lawsuits, healing issues confused with civil law issues confused with criminal matters - is just too much to deal with.