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The shock waves generated by the federal sponsorship scandal have spread across the government, and the result has been funding cuts for First Nation institutions, says Mark Green, the chairman of the board for the First Nation Technical Institute (FNTI).

Green said it's ironic that when government officials siphon millions of dollars out of the public purse, it's Aboriginal people that suffer the financial consequences.

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The shock waves generated by the federal sponsorship scandal have spread across the government, and the result has been funding cuts for First Nation institutions, says Mark Green, the chairman of the board for the First Nation Technical Institute (FNTI).

Green said it's ironic that when government officials siphon millions of dollars out of the public purse, it's Aboriginal people that suffer the financial consequences.

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Representatives of the world's first national Aboriginal television network will appear before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on June 6 in Niagara Falls, Ont. to state their case for its broadcast license renewal.

Parties concerned with the license of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), which expires Aug. 31, must file interventions before the May 12 deadline to be scheduled to appear.

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Representatives of the world's first national Aboriginal television network will appear before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on June 6 in Niagara Falls, Ont. to state their case for its broadcast license renewal.

Parties concerned with the license of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), which expires Aug. 31, must file interventions before the May 12 deadline to be scheduled to appear.

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If the federal Liberals are still the government on May 31 and the scheduled cabinet retreat with Aboriginal leaders actually takes place, Phil Fontaine, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), will have a concrete plan to present to the prime minister that will move First Nations self-government forward on the national agenda.

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If the federal Liberals are still the government on May 31 and the scheduled cabinet retreat with Aboriginal leaders actually takes place, Phil Fontaine, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), will have a concrete plan to present to the prime minister that will move First Nations self-government forward on the national agenda.

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The massive effort the Assembly of First Nations is putting into forging a new relationship for First Nations with the federal Crown is forcing a crucial issue onto the backburner, said a Manitoba chief.

Brokenhead Ojibway Nation Chief Tina Levesque told the special chiefs' assembly in Vancouver in March that there's no sense forging a new relationship with Ottawa if the government's own rules about status will mean that no government-recognized First Nations people will be left in a few years.

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The massive effort the Assembly of First Nations is putting into forging a new relationship for First Nations with the federal Crown is forcing a crucial issue onto the backburner, said a Manitoba chief.

Brokenhead Ojibway Nation Chief Tina Levesque told the special chiefs' assembly in Vancouver in March that there's no sense forging a new relationship with Ottawa if the government's own rules about status will mean that no government-recognized First Nations people will be left in a few years.

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On April 9, a 1,500-word essay entitled "Native hatred of Jews will rise dramatically!" appeared on fax machines in 13 newsrooms across Canada. It was signed by Chief Terrance Nelson.

In the essay, Nelson repeated David Ahenakew's anti-Semitic statements for which the former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations was recently prosecuted under the hate crime provision of Canada's Criminal Code. Nelson wrote that he was angry at the tone of the coverage of Ahenakew's trial in the mainstream media.

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In a British Columbia Supreme Court decision on March 11, Justice Carol J. Ross found that the sale of a 70,000-hectare parcel of land from one forestry company to another adversely affected the rights and title of the Hupacasath First Nation of Vancouver Island.

The justice also found that there was a chance the Hupacasath people could suffer irreparable harm if the decision to remove the lands from the jurisdiction of the Forest Act and move them into the Private Forest Lands Management Act, as proposed by the province's minister of Forests, was allowed.