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It was a most welcome, if unanticipated surprise.

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) Chief Executive Officer, Jean LaRose, arrived at his sixth-floor Portage Ave. office in downtown Winnipeg on Aug. 31 expecting to hear from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that a temporary license renewal for the network had been ordered.

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The Metis National Council (MNC) and the former lieutenant governor of Manitoba are going to court.

The MNC is suing Yvon Dumont for $47,000. The sum represents monies paid to Dumont while he was governor of the national council.

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The Metis National Council (MNC) and the former lieutenant governor of Manitoba are going to court.

The MNC is suing Yvon Dumont for $47,000. The sum represents monies paid to Dumont while he was governor of the national council.

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Alberta chiefs of treaties six, seven and eight took issue with the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) at a recent special assembly where they passed a resolution calling for the federal government to reduce funding to the women's organization.

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Alberta chiefs of treaties six, seven and eight took issue with the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) at a recent special assembly where they passed a resolution calling for the federal government to reduce funding to the women's organization.

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It only took a couple of days for Danielle Boudreau and Bekkie Fugate to find Teri-lynn House once they started looking in early August.

House had been reported missing to the RCMP detachment in Devon, a small community just outside Edmonton, more than a month previously. Her mother, Melanie House, was concerned that her daughter, who has been fighting an addiction, had run away to Edmonton and ended up on the streets. Teri-lynn was eventually found safe in Cranbrook, B.C., but, given the fate of many other missing Native women, her safety was never a sure thing.

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It only took a couple of days for Danielle Boudreau and Bekkie Fugate to find Teri-lynn House once they started looking in early August.

House had been reported missing to the RCMP detachment in Devon, a small community just outside Edmonton, more than a month previously. Her mother, Melanie House, was concerned that her daughter, who has been fighting an addiction, had run away to Edmonton and ended up on the streets. Teri-lynn was eventually found safe in Cranbrook, B.C., but, given the fate of many other missing Native women, her safety was never a sure thing.

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A leaked memo appears to reveal that bureaucrats at the highest level of authority in the federal government are issuing orders to keep spending on Aboriginal matters as low as possible, despite the recent promises made by politicians "to close the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians."

And, in one case, officials in the department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's (INAC) implementation branch discussed imposing new and lower limits on self-government agreements that have already been negotiated.

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A leaked memo appears to reveal that bureaucrats at the highest level of authority in the federal government are issuing orders to keep spending on Aboriginal matters as low as possible, despite the recent promises made by politicians "to close the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians."

And, in one case, officials in the department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's (INAC) implementation branch discussed imposing new and lower limits on self-government agreements that have already been negotiated.

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National Chief Phil Fontaine called a press conference on Aug. 4 to announce the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) would launch a class action lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of residential school survivors.

The statement of claim was filed with the Ontario and Alberta courts the next day.