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Doing nothing while natives run riot Lorne Gunter National Post Monday, June 12, 2006 Whatever the merits of the native land claims in Caledonia, Ont., all negotiations and government concessions must now end until native protesters agree to dismantle their barricades and end their illegal occupation of a housing development they claim is on aboriginal land. The protesters' lawlessness has been allowed to go on too long. More importantly, their behaviour is getting worse, not better. Rewarding it with further deference -- with promises that their grievances will be heard before their violence and illegality have ended -- will...

Blockade back up in Caledonia, Ont. Broadcast News (via The National Post) Monday, May 22, 2006 CALEDONIA, Ont. -- Tensions simmered for hours and aboriginal demonstrators and frustrated residents of Caledonia, Ont., came to blows Monday after a contentious blockade was taken down and then reconstructed hours later. It was thought taking down the barricade would calm tensions, since it had stopped traffic on the town's main road for more than a month. Demonstrators began blockading the road on April 20 when police attempted to forcibly remove protesters, who have been occupying a 40-hectare piece of land since Feb....