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When the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People releases the first stage of its final report this spring, will anybody really care?

The report, five years in the making and costing a total of $60 million, comes a bit too late to do any good, said Blaine Favel, Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian nations in an interview with the Canadian Press.

The commission has missed the boat and will have little impact, said Favel. The time to get the biggest bang for the buck was when the Liberals were elected to federal power in 1993.

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When the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People releases the first stage of its final report this spring, will anybody really care?

The report, five years in the making and costing a total of $60 million, comes a bit too late to do any good, said Blaine Favel, Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian nations in an interview with the Canadian Press.

The commission has missed the boat and will have little impact, said Favel. The time to get the biggest bang for the buck was when the Liberals were elected to federal power in 1993.

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A dispute between the Blood Tribal police and a group of concerned citizens seems well on its way to resolution, after two weeks of meetings. Police Chief Wayne Hamby met again with protesters Jan. 19th, to iron out problems that have arisen on the reserve.

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A dispute between the Blood Tribal police and a group of concerned citizens seems well on its way to resolution, after two weeks of meetings. Police Chief Wayne Hamby met again with protesters Jan. 19th, to iron out problems that have arisen on the reserve.

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RCMP in La Ronge, Sask., have charged Teresa McLeod, 41, with criminal negligence causing death.

McLeod, a resident of Stanley Mission, Sask., was the cab driver who left 15-year-old Becky Charles on a desolate highway Nov. 29, 1995 where she died of hypothermia. The temperature was ?25 degrees C.

Charles', also of Stanley Mission, was found 12 days after she was ejected from the taxi for causing a disturbance by hitting a passenger who had a heart condition.

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RCMP in La Ronge, Sask., have charged Teresa McLeod, 41, with criminal negligence causing death.

McLeod, a resident of Stanley Mission, Sask., was the cab driver who left 15-year-old Becky Charles on a desolate highway Nov. 29, 1995 where she died of hypothermia. The temperature was ?25 degrees C.

Charles', also of Stanley Mission, was found 12 days after she was ejected from the taxi for causing a disturbance by hitting a passenger who had a heart condition.

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Commercial whalers almost wiped out the bowhead whale population in the eastern Arctic, but Inuit learned this week they may soon harvest one of the remaining few.

Regional representatives of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board met in Iqaluit this week to plan for the hunt of a bowhead whale in Nunavut's waters in 1996.

After some emotional lobbying and speech making, delegates finally agreed that the hunt-once approved-will take place in Duke of York Bay in north Southampton Island.

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In a decision which will have board repercussions, the Liquor Licensing Appeal Council of Alberta recently gave Peter Paul Willier the go-ahead to open a liquor store on the Sucker Creek Band reserve, overturning a ruling of the Alberta Liquor Control Board. It will be the first such store in Alberta.

"The ALCB clearly acted to thwart Peter Paul Willier's application for a liquor store, said Karin Buss, and Edmonton lawyer with the firm Parlee McLaws, who acted for Willier. "I was very surprised that anything this discriminatory could be done in this day and age."

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In a decision which will have board repercussions, the Liquor Licensing Appeal Council of Alberta recently gave Peter Paul Willier the go-ahead to open a liquor store on the Sucker Creek Band reserve, overturning a ruling of the Alberta Liquor Control Board. It will be the first such store in Alberta.

"The ALCB clearly acted to thwart Peter Paul Willier's application for a liquor store, said Karin Buss, and Edmonton lawyer with the firm Parlee McLaws, who acted for Willier. "I was very surprised that anything this discriminatory could be done in this day and age."

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"Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it'swhat is that thing, anyway?"

This seems to be the million dollar question plaguing the community of Fort Resolution, N.W.T.

Sightings of an unexplained dancing white light, moving through the sky just above the tree line, have the whole town talking.

And the Canadian Armed Forces listening to the stories of the eyewitnesses of the strange, yet beautiful, glow in the sky.