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The federal Liberals have made good on a promise made during the last election to help deal with health issues in Canada's Aboriginal communities.

The new health care strategy, Building Health Communities, will see $243 million pumped into Aboriginal health care during the next five years. This is an addition to the dollars currently being spent on Aboriginal health.

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Syncrude Canada, local Native groups, environmentalists and the Alberta governments are joining forces to study the impact of oil sands plant emissions on human health.

The study is being done in response to concerns raised by the Energy Resources Conservation Board that was asked to approve an expansion of the company's plant. The project's co-ordinator said the study is still in the planning stages.

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An RCMP detachment on an Alberta reserve has been given notice to vacate the office by Sept. 30 and hand over duties to the all-Native tribal service Oct. 1.

Chief John Ermineskin, of the Ermineskin band in Hobbema, handed a notice of eviction to Staff Sgt. Ken McGilvary Sept. 15, saying the three bands serviced by the detachment are frustrated by the lack of cultural sensitivity shown by the 14-member post and want their own Native police to take over.

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Undercover operations by Fish and Wildlife officials have netted almost two tons of illegally caught game and fish in southern Ontario.

Over a two-year period, an undercover police operation seized 1,800 kilograms of fish, deer and moose meat from Native and non-Native hunters and fishers. The catches were seized under the Ontario Game and Fish Act which prohibits buying, selling or trading wild game.

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It certainly didn't take the Six Nations Chiefs long to prove they belonged with the big boys of Canadian lacrosse.

The Chiefs, a second year franchise, captured the national senior title, the Mann Cup, on Sept. 14. Six Nations had earned the right to play host to the Canadian finals by winning the Ontario Lacrosse Association crown.

In the Mann Cup, Six Nations battled the Western Lacrosse Association champs, the New Westminster Salmonbelles. The Chiefs won the best of seven series in six games.

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The peaceful waters of Maopeque Bay, P.E.I. mask tension on the Lennox Island reserve. Since July Mi'kmaq fishers have found their traps smashed, and their lobster sales declared illegal by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

And their chef stands by the government.

The federal department has confiscated or destroyed more than 1,000 untagged lobster traps used by Mi'kmaq fishers since May. The department considers the trap illegal under agreements signed between DFO and Lennox Island Chief Jack Sark.

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In these areas I propose that constitutions be amended so that women have their own houses of parliament, separate from men, with equal power. In Islamic countries or other places where women are often discouraged from being politically exposed to unrelated males, I would propose that only women be able to vote for delegates to the women's parliament, so that female candidates are exposed only to female audience and voters.

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One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. If only it was so easy to keep an accurate count of British Columbia's salmon stocks. But counting salmon along the Fraser River is more than child's play. An entire industry, one worth $250 million, relies on systems and technologies employed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to calculate the year's catch and escapement. When these technologies fail, the entire resource is put at risk.

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They came from seven communities in Quebec and Labrador. Over 150 Innu, protesting military low-level flight training, took control of the fist day of public hearings of the Environmental Review Panel in Goose Bay.

"We are here to say that this is our land," said Conseil Atikamekw et des Montagnais member, Armand Mackenzie. "It is our intention to help you understand why we are here, and what the issues are for us. This is our land, and the survival of our people is at stake."

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The Innu in Labrador and Quebec will boycott environmental assessment hearings on low-level flight training because they say the public process is unfair.

Hearings began Sept. 19 and will run to Oct. 29 to allow response to an environmental study done by the Department of National Defence. The department insists the training has little or no impact on the wildlife and plans to increase low-level flights by 100 per cent throughout the area.