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All across Canada, people have sat and watched or read the news coverage of the protest by the people of Six Nations in Caledonia, Ont. who since late February have been occupying a construction site they claim is on Six Nations land.

A group of concerned citizens in the Battlefords area decided they wanted to do more than just sit by and watch, so on May 21 they mobilized a blockade in solidarity with Six Nations and all First Nations who have unsettled land claims issues.

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The city of Regina has 20 new entries on its master list of names to be used for streets and subdivisions. Included among them are the names of a number of prominent historic Aboriginal people.

The civic naming committee submitted its annual report for 2005 to city council on May 24, which included a list of the names aded to the master list during the year.

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The Saskatchewan and Canadian governments are sinking just over half-a-million dollars into six projects designed to provide training and economic development opportunities in northern Saskatchewan.

That amount will be topped up by funding from clients and other partners, putting the total allocated to the projects at about $1.2 million.

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Donald John Bird, a member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation, has been appointed a judge of the Provincial Court in Meadow Lake.

"Judge Bird's experience in the fields of corrections, policing and community-based justice initiatives, coupled with his experience in the practice of law, will serve him well in his new role as a Provincial Court judge, provincial Justice Minister Frank Quennell said in announcing the appointment on May 10.

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The National Association of Friendship Centres will be on the receiving end of $77 million in federal funding, the federal government announced May 18.

The money, to be spread out over four years, will allow the association to continue to manage and deliver programming for friendship centres and urban multipurpose Aboriginal youth centres, and to continuThe National Association of Friendship Centres will be on the receiving end of $77 million in federal funding, the federal government announced May 18.

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The National Association of Friendship Centres will be on the receiving end of $77 million in federal funding, the federal government announced May 18.

The money, to be spread out over four years, will allow the association to continue to manage and deliver programming for friendship centres and urban multipurpose Aboriginal youth centres, and to continuThe National Association of Friendship Centres will be on the receiving end of $77 million in federal funding, the federal government announced May 18.

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Maurice Vellacott has resigned as chair of the Commons Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, just 10 days after he took on the role.

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The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has given $100,000 to the University of Regina Faculty Association to be used to help protect academic freedom at the First Nations University of Canada (FNUC).

Allegations that academic freedom was being compromised at FNUC arose in early 2005 after a number of senior administrators were fired and others resigned in protest, citing political interference in the running of the university.

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The Office of the Saskatchewan Police Complaints Investigator has dismissed a complaint by Toronto-based actor Gregory Odjig.

Odjig had accused two members of the Saskatoon Police Service of targeting him because he is Aboriginal.

Odjig held a news conference on Nov. 9, 2005 during which he made allegation so misconduct against the members.

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The provincial government will be consulting people in the north about whether a law that exempts northern employees from earning overtime pay for extra hours worked needs to be changed.

The Northern Exemption law, enacted in 1955, exempts employees working north of Township 62 from the hours of work and overtime provisions of the Labour Standards Act. The communities of La Ronge, Creighton and Uranium City and a 10-kilometre area around each community are not covered by the examption.