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A taxing situation on native reserves Elizabeth Nickson National Post SALT SPRING ISLAND - You can't get me to walk down the road to speak to a neighbour, but I'll go to a tax revolt just about anywhere. So Monday, I packed myself up and, wearing my $200 straw hat from Madagascar, my steel Rolex, Balinese silver bracelets, carrying my pony bag from Holt's, with my smutty memoir from Paris popped into my straw bag from London, along with my two hideously expensive dogs into the (thankfully proletarian) Jeep, I went off to the Cowichan reserve on Vancouver Island to...

The treaty deadlock: There is a solution Thu, Jun 13, 2002 Meaghan Walker-Williams VIEWS FROM THE WEST Treaties -- you can't escape them. They're in the news everywhere. All across the West, it's being discussed with apathy and passion over dinner tables, in coffee klatches, schools and pundit columns. Hard on the heels of the Treaty 8 decision in retro Alberta -- in which a Federal Court judge ruled that a group of Indians in that province does not have to pay taxes on income or property earned or held off reserves -- comes the amateurish attempt by the Campbell...

'We have to end the dependency': Native woman seeks to create Salish Free Trade Zone in B.C. National Post Saturday, May 4, 2002 Page: B3 Section: Review Byline: Elizabeth Nickson Source: National Post One often has the impression that in Indian country, all of Canada's aboriginals speak with a single voice, and that voice is saying, "Gimmee more." Provincial and federal transfer payments, slated for various development programs and welfare, amount to approximately $10-billion a year, spread over a population of about one million natives. But most natives say they never see any of that money. Whites, or non-natives, are...

AMI Employee Speaks Out About Anthrax Case The editorial director of American Media says his company knows how the man killed by anthrax was exposed to the disease. He is also making scathing comments about the Palm Beach County Health department. Steve Coz, Editorial Director at American Media in Boca Raton, says that the company knows how the anthrax bacterium got into their building, and he says there is a connection to the terrorists. Coz says that Bob Stevens, the employee who died of anthrax, was infected after exposure anthrax spores delivered to AMI in a letter. He said the ...

Thobani accused of hate crime against Americans Complaint sent to Ottawa police 'pure harassment', UBC professor says Glenn Bohn and Kim Bolan Vancouver Sun Wednesday, October 10, 2001 Sunera Thobani NEWSLETTERS A University of B.C. women's studies professor who criticized U.S. foreign policy has been accused of a hate crime -- publicly inciting hatred against Americans. An unidentified B.C. resident alleged Oct. 4 that assistant professor Sunera Thobani violated the Criminal Code of Canada during an Oct. 1 speech to a women's conference in Ottawa, RCMP Corporal Michael Labossiere of the B.C. hate crime unit said Tuesday. Thobani, a former ...

Click below and look on the right side of the page. About - The Human Internet http://www.about.com DAILY POLL Should law enforcement be allowed to use torture for information that would prevent terrorist attacks? 52% say it is OK 48 % say it isn't OK

PM accused of idling Parliament Liberal MPs frustrated: 'Government should clear the plate and say we're going to deal with national security' Jane Taber National Post OTTAWA - Jean Chrétien came under attack yesterday from his own caucus members and opposition MPs, who accused the Prime Minister of rendering Parliament irrelevant during the terrorist crisis. Liberal MPs, some of whom are very frustrated, sat through another weekly caucus meeting in which there was little or no information about the government's plan in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Instead, an MP read a poem about peace while others debated ...

Apparently - this is the latest from the UK > >At 1:05 PM -0500 9/26/01, wrote: > >>News breaking in UK. Lakenheath USAF base, the largest >>base outside the USA, have arrested 7 people. One German >>and 6 Iraqis, who were hidden in a secret compartment >>under the truck when it arrived at the military >>installations front gate. > German driver; Iraqis were in the truck. Pics showed still Threatcon Delta. Routine inspection found them. They were trying to gain access to the base. *****