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Alfred Gerard Eli, 43, a respected and influential force in Toronto's Aboriginal community, died peacefully at his home on Jan. 10 from complications due to AIDS. He was surrounded by friends and family.

Eli is remembered by those close to him as a kind man with an easy-going nature and a strong sense of humor, who had tremendous will and energy for his work, and who was loved by and an inspiration to all who knew him.

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Alfred Gerard Eli, 43, a respected and influential force in Toronto's Aboriginal community, died peacefully at his home on Jan. 10 from complications due to AIDS. He was surrounded by friends and family.

Eli is remembered by those close to him as a kind man with an easy-going nature and a strong sense of humor, who had tremendous will and energy for his work, and who was loved by and an inspiration to all who knew him.

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Nearly 130 Aboriginal downtown eastside Vancouver residents, who are HIV-positive or have AIDS must now look outside of their community for specialized health care and social services.

The Vancouver Native Health Society's HIV/AIDS Home Health Care program closed its doors Jan. 13 due to lack of government funding, according to the society's executive director, Lou Demerais.

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Nearly 130 Aboriginal downtown eastside Vancouver residents, who are HIV-positive or have AIDS must now look outside of their community for specialized health care and social services.

The Vancouver Native Health Society's HIV/AIDS Home Health Care program closed its doors Jan. 13 due to lack of government funding, according to the society's executive director, Lou Demerais.

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A Saskatoon man has been arrested in connection with the murders of three Saskatchewan women whose skeletal remains were found in a farmer's field just outside of Saskatoon.

The Jan. 19 arrest came after an intense four-month investigation involving RCMP and city police, a forensic anthropologist and more than 3,000 "tips".

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A Saskatoon man has been arrested in connection with the murders of three Saskatchewan women whose skeletal remains were found in a farmer's field just outside of Saskatoon.

The Jan. 19 arrest came after an intense four-month investigation involving RCMP and city police, a forensic anthropologist and more than 3,000 "tips".

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To stop West Coast salmon from going the way of East Coast cod, the B.C. government pulled the plug on the giant Kemano hydro project in northwestern B.C.

The move delighted environmentalists and area Natives but left business groups and affected workers spitting mad.

Premier Mike Harcourt killed Alcan's $1.3 billion Kemano Completion Project

Jan. 24, citing worries over the harm lowered water levels resulting from the huge dam would do to salmon stocks in the Fraser River system.

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To stop West Coast salmon from going the way of East Coast cod, the B.C. government pulled the plug on the giant Kemano hydro project in northwestern B.C.

The move delighted environmentalists and area Natives but left business groups and affected workers spitting mad.

Premier Mike Harcourt killed Alcan's $1.3 billion Kemano Completion Project

Jan. 24, citing worries over the harm lowered water levels resulting from the huge dam would do to salmon stocks in the Fraser River system.

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The federal minister for Indian Affairs has bucked any notion of bargaining with demonstrators occupying a Revenue Canada building in downtown Toronto.

But Ron Irwin did say the government should conduct a wide-ranging review of the system for taxing Native people. Such a review is a long process that could become tangled up in treaty negotiations, but it is becoming necessary to change the current income tax system.

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The federal minister for Indian Affairs has bucked any notion of bargaining with demonstrators occupying a Revenue Canada building in downtown Toronto.

But Ron Irwin did say the government should conduct a wide-ranging review of the system for taxing Native people. Such a review is a long process that could become tangled up in treaty negotiations, but it is becoming necessary to change the current income tax system.