Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

Elections Canada uses bingo daubers to encourage Native voters

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Native groups across Canada are outraged with Elections Canada latest campaign to get Natives to vote.

Bingo card markers bearing the Elections Canada logo and the message "It's your right to vote" were distributed to various Native organizations across Canada two weeks ago.

But the dauber distribution was quickly halted after several Aboriginal groups complained the campaign was racist.

"We're offended," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

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A B.C. Court of Appeals has reserved judgment in the Bishop Hubert O'Connor case.

Crown Prosecutor Malcolm Macaulay and a coalition of women's groups, including the Aboriginal Women's Council, and the Department of Justice want he court to lift a stay of proceedings issued B.C. Supreme Court Judge Allan Thackery in O'Connor's sexual assault case.

O'Connor, the highest ranking Catholic official in Canada, is accused of raping two female employees and indecently assaulting two students in the '60s at the now-defunct St. Joseph's school.

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A B.C. Court of Appeals has reserved judgment in the Bishop Hubert O'Connor case.

Crown Prosecutor Malcolm Macaulay and a coalition of women's groups, including the Aboriginal Women's Council, and the Department of Justice want he court to lift a stay of proceedings issued B.C. Supreme Court Judge Allan Thackery in O'Connor's sexual assault case.

O'Connor, the highest ranking Catholic official in Canada, is accused of raping two female employees and indecently assaulting two students in the '60s at the now-defunct St. Joseph's school.

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A B.C. Court of Appeals has reserved judgment in the Bishop Hubert O'Connor case.

Crown Prosecutor Malcolm Macaulay and a coalition of women's groups, including the Aboriginal Women's Council, and the Department of Justice want he court to lift a stay of proceedings issued B.C. Supreme Court Judge Allan Thackery in O'Connor's sexual assault case.

O'Connor, the highest ranking Catholic official in Canada, is accused of raping two female employees and indecently assaulting two students in the '60s at the now-defunct St. Joseph's school.

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A B.C. Court of Appeals has reserved judgment in the Bishop Hubert O'Connor case.

Crown Prosecutor Malcolm Macaulay and a coalition of women's groups, including the Aboriginal Women's Council, and the Department of Justice want he court to lift a stay of proceedings issued B.C. Supreme Court Judge Allan Thackery in O'Connor's sexual assault case.

O'Connor, the highest ranking Catholic official in Canada, is accused of raping two female employees and indecently assaulting two students in the '60s at the now-defunct St. Joseph's school.

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A B.C. Court of Appeals has reserved judgment in the Bishop Hubert O'Connor case.

Crown Prosecutor Malcolm Macaulay and a coalition of women's groups, including the Aboriginal Women's Council, and the Department of Justice want he court to lift a stay of proceedings issued B.C. Supreme Court Judge Allan Thackery in O'Connor's sexual assault case.

O'Connor, the highest ranking Catholic official in Canada, is accused of raping two female employees and indecently assaulting two students in the '60s at the now-defunct St. Joseph's school.

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A B.C. Court of Appeals has reserved judgment in the Bishop Hubert O'Connor case.

Crown Prosecutor Malcolm Macaulay and a coalition of women's groups, including the Aboriginal Women's Council, and the Department of Justice want he court to lift a stay of proceedings issued B.C. Supreme Court Judge Allan Thackery in O'Connor's sexual assault case.

O'Connor, the highest ranking Catholic official in Canada, is accused of raping two female employees and indecently assaulting two students in the '60s at the now-defunct St. Joseph's school.