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 Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 1 Jul 2015     AFN executive to discuss National Chief's hiring of "girlfriend" By Lynda Powless, Editor OTTAWA - Assembly of First Nations leader Perry Bellegarde will be facing questions from the AFN executive later this month over the hiring of his partner as a ...

 Turtle Island News, 11 Feb 2015     "The new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says Prime Minister Stephen Harper personally told him that the Conservative government will not move ahead with its controversial overhaul of aboriginal education."

 Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 4 Mar 2015     "First Nation leaders and Canada's senior politicians may have met Friday to tackle the problem of missing and murdered indigenous women, but they came out of the meeting with little more than a promise to meet again next year...and two federal ministers distanced themselves from the group by holding their …

 Windle, Jim, Turtle Island News, 3 Feb 2016     Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report recognizes sports as a healer By Jim Windle OTTAWA - The following excerpts are directly from the recently released Truth and Reconciliation Committee report (TRC) and hint that sports were a life­saver for some ...

 Turtle Island News, 17 Dec 1997     "A dysfunctional justice system has turned Canadian courts into daily "degradation ceremonies" where judges rule as 'potentates on raised podiums' in a hopeless attempt to prevent crime, says a Yukon judge."

 Duric, Donna, Turtle Island News, 21 May 2014     National Day of Resistance hits Ottawa, "no to Bill C-33, C-10" By Donna Duric, Writer A number of aboriginal leaders told a crowd of around 1,500 people on Parliament Hill Wednesday that the time for diplomacy is over when it comes to dealing with the ...

 Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 24 Sep 2014     "OTTAWA - A Senate Committee holding hearings on Bill C-10, an act to amend the Criminal Code to include trafficking in "contraband" tobacco was told passage of the bill could drive the business underground."

 Tibbetts, Janice, Turtle Island News, 30 Sep 1998     "OTTAWA - After 10 years, Patrick Smith still can't shake the memory."

 Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 4 Feb 2015     "It took three months and a rushed meeting but Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally met with the Assembly of First Nations Nations leader last week."

 Turtle Island News, 17 Jun 1998, pp.1-2     Aboriginal women oppose divorce bill OTTAWA - Aboriginal women applied for an injunction last Wednesday against a federal bill that would give band councils on reserves the power to decide who gets the family property after a divorce but provides no protection for ...

 Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 24 Dec 2014     "OTTAWA - Newly elected Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde has a long Christmas wish list."

 Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 9 Jan 2013     Prime Minister agrees to meet with First Nation leaders By Lynda Powless, Editor The Assembly of First Nations is co-ordinating a delegation of First Nations leaders to meet with Prime Minister Harper Friday. The Prime Minister announced last week ...

 Rennie, Steve, Turtle Island News, 30 Apr 2014     "The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) finds himself in the difficult spot of supporting a Harper government bill that one of his chief political rivals described Monday as an affront to Canada's aboriginal community."

 Tibbetts, Janice, Turtle Island News, 10 Jun 1998     "OTTAWA (CP) - It will be easier for Canadian lawyers to screen potential jurors for racism following a Supreme Court decision Thursday that ordered a new trial for an aboriginal man convicted of robbing a pizza parlor."

 Tibbetts. Janice, Turtle Island News, 17 Jun 1998     Churches want Ottawa to take lead on Indian residential school talks By Janice Tibbetts OTTAWA - Two churches that ran Indian residential schools on behalf of the federal government say Ottawa has been dragging its feet in dealing with a barrage of lawsuits ...

 Turtle Island News, 24 Jul 1998     New Brunswick Indians lose tax case in Supreme Court OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada settled a sometimes ugly, five-year squabble between New Brunswick and its status Indians on Thursday by ruling the province was within its rights to charge them sales tax. ...

 Press, Jordan, Turtle Island News, 20 Jul 2016     "Half of the country's aboriginal families living on reserve could miss out on the federal government's new child benefit aimed at raising hundreds of thousands of Canadians out of poverty."

 Turtle Island News, 21 Nov 2012     "The scaffold Prime Minister Stephen Harper erected in January to help boost the independence and prosperity of Canada's First Nations is being corroded by inaction, and risks collapsing in a familiar cloud of inertia and distrust, newly obtained correspondence suggests."

 Turtle Island News, 30 Jan 2013     "For the second day in a row, the Harper government faced growing questions from opposition MPs on the living standards of First Nations people and the now worldwide Idle No More movement that has drawn global attention to Canada's treatment of First Nations."

 Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 24 Dec 2012     "With a snow storm setting the backdrop Friday for one of the first major massive "Idle No More" demonstrations Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn Atleo says 'this is an important moment. It is our people's time.'"