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Aboriginal people living off reserve not seeing benefits

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The 1997 Annual Report of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, published March 24, shows that the commission is unimpressed by the federal government's response to the needs of Aboriginal people living off-reserve.

"The plight of Aboriginal people living in urban areas has historically received little attention and was not addressed in the government response to the Royal Commission," said the commission in its report.

Aboriginal people living off reserve not seeing benefits

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The 1997 Annual Report of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, published March 24, shows that the commission is unimpressed by the federal government's response to the needs of Aboriginal people living off-reserve.

"The plight of Aboriginal people living in urban areas has historically received little attention and was not addressed in the government response to the Royal Commission," said the commission in its report.

Aboriginal people living off reserve not seeing benefits

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The 1997 Annual Report of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, published March 24, shows that the commission is unimpressed by the federal government's response to the needs of Aboriginal people living off-reserve.

"The plight of Aboriginal people living in urban areas has historically received little attention and was not addressed in the government response to the Royal Commission," said the commission in its report.

Diashowa boycott may continue, says judge

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The Friends of the Lubicon were just exercising their constitutionally-protected right of free expression when they picketed or threatened to picket customers of Japanese-owned multi-national pulp and paper corporation Diashowa, Inc., an Ontario general division judge ruled on April 14.

But that court victory for the Toronto-based activist group was tempered by a loss in the other issue before the court: defamation. Mr. Justice James McPherson ruled that the use of the word "genocide" by Friends of the Lubicon picketers was too extreme.

Diashowa boycott may continue, says judge

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The Friends of the Lubicon were just exercising their constitutionally-protected right of free expression when they picketed or threatened to picket customers of Japanese-owned multi-national pulp and paper corporation Diashowa, Inc., an Ontario general division judge ruled on April 14.

But that court victory for the Toronto-based activist group was tempered by a loss in the other issue before the court: defamation. Mr. Justice James McPherson ruled that the use of the word "genocide" by Friends of the Lubicon picketers was too extreme.

Diashowa boycott may continue, says judge

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The Friends of the Lubicon were just exercising their constitutionally-protected right of free expression when they picketed or threatened to picket customers of Japanese-owned multi-national pulp and paper corporation Diashowa, Inc., an Ontario general division judge ruled on April 14.

But that court victory for the Toronto-based activist group was tempered by a loss in the other issue before the court: defamation. Mr. Justice James McPherson ruled that the use of the word "genocide" by Friends of the Lubicon picketers was too extreme.