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Concerns mounting among the Innu and Inuit peoples of Labrador about mining exploration by a company partly owned and co-chaired by Robert Friedland, who used to head another company that was responsible for the infamous $120-milion Summitville disaster which left a river in Colorado poisoned with cyanide.

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Concerns mounting among the Innu and Inuit peoples of Labrador about mining exploration by a company partly owned and co-chaired by Robert Friedland, who used to head another company that was responsible for the infamous $120-milion Summitville disaster which left a river in Colorado poisoned with cyanide.

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First Nations should have no special recognition in the law and no more rights than municipalities in an independent Quebec.

So said a Quebec businessman at one of 18 "people's commission" hearings into sovereignty organized by the Quebec government and held across the province in February.

"If we give $400 million to one Native group, the next one will ask for $600 million," said the businessman, whose presentation, greeted with applause from the audience, was broadcast on cable TV across the province.

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First Nations should have no special recognition in the law and no more rights than municipalities in an independent Quebec.

So said a Quebec businessman at one of 18 "people's commission" hearings into sovereignty organized by the Quebec government and held across the province in February.

"If we give $400 million to one Native group, the next one will ask for $600 million," said the businessman, whose presentation, greeted with applause from the audience, was broadcast on cable TV across the province.

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Keeping tabs on the condition of housing under their management has often meant a mammoth undertaking for First Nations. Now, however, an extremely easy-to-use software program enables First Nation communities to produce accurate and up-to-date assessments of their housing situation, with just a few touches to the computer keyboard.

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Keeping tabs on the condition of housing under their management has often meant a mammoth undertaking for First Nations. Now, however, an extremely easy-to-use software program enables First Nation communities to produce accurate and up-to-date assessments of their housing situation, with just a few touches to the computer keyboard.

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In all the vast space and millions of computer files accessible through the Internet, there is not one site that collects and stores data about Native Canadians.

"There's really no representation here in Canada yet," says Dickson Christie, director of marketing and promotions for Alberta Supernet, a service which connects computer users with Internet.

Christie wants to change that.

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In all the vast space and millions of computer files accessible through the Internet, there is not one site that collects and stores data about Native Canadians.

"There's really no representation here in Canada yet," says Dickson Christie, director of marketing and promotions for Alberta Supernet, a service which connects computer users with Internet.

Christie wants to change that.

Unable to find a tradesman willing to train her, welder hires one herself

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Meet Calgary's iron lady.

Irma White-Patmore has a will as strong as the products of her Mohawk Welding and Consulting Services.

She thrives on starting from scratch.

It looked like all the strikes were against her when she started in 1986.

Unable to find a tradesman willing to train her, welder hires one herself

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Meet Calgary's iron lady.

Irma White-Patmore has a will as strong as the products of her Mohawk Welding and Consulting Services.

She thrives on starting from scratch.

It looked like all the strikes were against her when she started in 1986.