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It's old news now, but the Reform Party of Canada released a 59-page report on how they would improve the collective lot of First Nations people by making us all happy Canadians. The report was unavailable to me, so I had to rely on the executive summary that was posted on the Reform Party's Internet site.

Mike Scott is the Aboriginal Affairs critic for the Reform Party and the author of this report. I don't doubt his good intentions. There are indeed many problems plaguing reserve communities - suicide, high unemployment and substance abuse are just a few.

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It's old news now, but the Reform Party of Canada released a 59-page report on how they would improve the collective lot of First Nations people by making us all happy Canadians. The report was unavailable to me, so I had to rely on the executive summary that was posted on the Reform Party's Internet site.

Mike Scott is the Aboriginal Affairs critic for the Reform Party and the author of this report. I don't doubt his good intentions. There are indeed many problems plaguing reserve communities - suicide, high unemployment and substance abuse are just a few.

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It's old news now, but the Reform Party of Canada released a 59-page report on how they would improve the collective lot of First Nations people by making us all happy Canadians. The report was unavailable to me, so I had to rely on the executive summary that was posted on the Reform Party's Internet site.

Mike Scott is the Aboriginal Affairs critic for the Reform Party and the author of this report. I don't doubt his good intentions. There are indeed many problems plaguing reserve communities - suicide, high unemployment and substance abuse are just a few.

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Birke Stonefish held a copy of the August Windspeaker up against the glass in the visitors' cubicle at the Edmonton Remand Centre. The front-page story about the sentence imposed on Ontario Provincial Police Acting-Sgt. Kenneth Deane was dotted with marks made by a yellow highlighter, each mark represented a section that outraged the Aboriginal prisoner.

"Is this justice?" he asked.

That's a question that was asked by Aboriginal people all across the country when Judge Hugh Fraser pronounced sentence on July 3.

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Birke Stonefish held a copy of the August Windspeaker up against the glass in the visitors' cubicle at the Edmonton Remand Centre. The front-page story about the sentence imposed on Ontario Provincial Police Acting-Sgt. Kenneth Deane was dotted with marks made by a yellow highlighter, each mark represented a section that outraged the Aboriginal prisoner.

"Is this justice?" he asked.

That's a question that was asked by Aboriginal people all across the country when Judge Hugh Fraser pronounced sentence on July 3.

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Birke Stonefish held a copy of the August Windspeaker up against the glass in the visitors' cubicle at the Edmonton Remand Centre. The front-page story about the sentence imposed on Ontario Provincial Police Acting-Sgt. Kenneth Deane was dotted with marks made by a yellow highlighter, each mark represented a section that outraged the Aboriginal prisoner.

"Is this justice?" he asked.

That's a question that was asked by Aboriginal people all across the country when Judge Hugh Fraser pronounced sentence on July 3.

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Representatives of Toronto's Native community met with Metro Police Chief David Boothby in September to discuss the role of the police in the city's Aboriginal community.

The meeting was planned by the Aboriginal Peace Keeping Unit, the only urban Native police force in Canada. It gives city Natives the chance to deal with their own people when problems arise.

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Representatives of Toronto's Native community met with Metro Police Chief David Boothby in September to discuss the role of the police in the city's Aboriginal community.

The meeting was planned by the Aboriginal Peace Keeping Unit, the only urban Native police force in Canada. It gives city Natives the chance to deal with their own people when problems arise.

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Representatives of Toronto's Native community met with Metro Police Chief David Boothby in September to discuss the role of the police in the city's Aboriginal community.

The meeting was planned by the Aboriginal Peace Keeping Unit, the only urban Native police force in Canada. It gives city Natives the chance to deal with their own people when problems arise.

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Rivalries - jurisdictional and otherwise - between off-reserve police services and the local Peacekeepers foiled a raid on a warehouse on the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in early September, a Kahnawake councillor says.