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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.

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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.

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A long-anticipated agreement has been reached between the Nisga'a Tribal Council, and the governments of British Columbia and Canada. The agreement will be used as the basis for negotiations of the first modern-day treaty in the province and ends over 100-years of waiting for the northern B.C. Natives.

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A long-anticipated agreement has been reached between the Nisga'a Tribal Council, and the governments of British Columbia and Canada. The agreement will be used as the basis for negotiations of the first modern-day treaty in the province and ends over 100-years of waiting for the northern B.C. Natives.

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Clear, unfettered authority over the management of reserve lands is how Chief Robert Louie describes the power given to the 13 First Nations involved in the new framework agreement on First Nation land management.

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Clear, unfettered authority over the management of reserve lands is how Chief Robert Louie describes the power given to the 13 First Nations involved in the new framework agreement on First Nation land management.

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The continuing hearings into the proposed BHP diamond mine in the central Northwest Territories threaten to separate the parties who must agree to give the mine a go-ahead. Environmentalists, local business boosters, mine proponents and the region's First Nations all bring differing expectations to the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Panel. Only time will tell whether they can reach some kind of agreement.

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The continuing hearings into the proposed BHP diamond mine in the central Northwest Territories threaten to separate the parties who must agree to give the mine a go-ahead. Environmentalists, local business boosters, mine proponents and the region's First Nations all bring differing expectations to the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Panel. Only time will tell whether they can reach some kind of agreement.

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The First Nations International Court of Justice is set to begin its preliminary hearing into the case against Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, indicted by the court for illegal activity undertaken by Canada against First Nations people.

The court will sit from April 2 to 4 in the ballroom of the Radisson Hotel in Ottawa. At this first sitting, the judges will hear the charges from the prosecution and preliminary evidence will be presented.

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The First Nations International Court of Justice is set to begin its preliminary hearing into the case against Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, indicted by the court for illegal activity undertaken by Canada against First Nations people.

The court will sit from April 2 to 4 in the ballroom of the Radisson Hotel in Ottawa. At this first sitting, the judges will hear the charges from the prosecution and preliminary evidence will be presented.