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Is Canada the Switzerland of the north?

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Guest Column

The French-speaking Quebec citizens of Canada are considering taking steps to separate from Canada. Tragically their desire to separate and to establish French language and culture as supreme within the province of Quebec, without granting a similar right of separation to Indigenous Canadians, is a continuation of the old tradition of Eurocentric colonialism.

Pathways program replaced

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The federal government has signed framework agreements with three national Native organizations to establish guidelines for the delivery of human resources programs and services by and for the Aboriginal people.

The three-year agreements, which come into effect April 1, replace the Pathways to Success federal job training program that expires March 31 with community-based job training.

Pathways program replaced

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The federal government has signed framework agreements with three national Native organizations to establish guidelines for the delivery of human resources programs and services by and for the Aboriginal people.

The three-year agreements, which come into effect April 1, replace the Pathways to Success federal job training program that expires March 31 with community-based job training.

Ban equals death for Canadian trappers

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Placing animal rights above Aboriginal survival will result directly in deaths across Canada, according to an Inuit spokesman.

"The values that the animal rights groups bring with them are very threatening to our culture," said Peter Williamson, a project coordinator the with the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada. He explained that, if the Fur-Bearers Association or any other such group are successful in banning the leghold trap and trapping, then suicides, alcoholism and other social pathologies will increase nationwide in Aboriginal trapping populations.