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Floods Force Out Northern Residents

2013-05-11T19:14:22Z

For the second straight day, residents from First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are being relocated as rising water and extensive flooding c...

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Floods To Blame For More Evacuations

2013-05-05T08:45:48Z

Rising waters and spring flooding are to blame for more evacuations in the James Bay community of Kashechewan.
There are plans to have ap...

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Sewage Floods Force Evacuations In Attawapiskat And Kashechewan

2013-05-02T09:11:49Z

A partial evacuation was underway Wednesday in the Kashechewan First Nation, and some frail and elderly have already been flown out of Attawapiskat Fi...

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Two Reserves Declare State Of Emergency

2013-04-30T21:47:39Z

A partial evacuation is now planned for the Kashechewan First Nation, as flood problems worsen for communities on the James Bay Coast in northern Onta...

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Reserve Swamped In Sewage

2013-04-29T19:15:15Z

After a long cold winter, Attawapiskat residents got a rude spring awakening -- an overwhelmed drainage system is swamping the Ontario reserve in sewa...

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How Does Native Funding Really Work?

2013-02-06T04:57:56Z

The recent Idle No More protests, as well as Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence’s 45-day hunger strike, have raised awareness of native issues.
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Protesters Block Road To Diamond Mine Near Attawapiskat

2013-02-05T15:22:18Z

De Beers Canada says a group of Attawapiskat residents is blockading the main winter road leading to the company's Victor diamond mine in northern Ont...

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Attawapiskat Residents Want Answers

2013-02-04T22:59:14Z

From declaring a housing emergency last year, to a hunger protest in Ottawa, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has fought very publicly with the feder...

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Audit Of Attawapiskat's Finances Didn't Come Cheap

2013-02-01T14:09:39Z

A third-party audit of the troubled Attawapiskat reserve cost the federal government more than $400,000, CBC News has learned.
According t...

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After 6 Weeks Without Solid Food, Is She Healthy?

2013-01-24T09:13:11Z

OTTAWA - Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence emerged from hospital Thursday to sign the First Nations declaration that ended her hunger protest after si...

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Canadians Lined Up Against Idle No More

2013-01-17T08:48:11Z

As Idle No More revs up across Canada, a new poll reveals Canadians aren't exactly behind the demonstrations. And money management on First Nations re...

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Idle No More Co-Founder Uneasy About Portrayal Of Spence

2013-01-14T22:39:44Z

One of the originators of the Idle No More movement says she supports Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, but is concerned with how the media is portra...

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#Ottawapiskat: What If The Capital Were A Reserve?

2013-01-14T10:33:15Z

How would we talk about Ottawa if it were a First Nations reserve?

That's the question that's taking Twitter by storm, with users employing the #Ot...

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Mulcair To Spence: End Hunger Strike

2013-01-13T13:57:26Z

OTTAWA - The leader of the official Opposition and a prominent aboriginal chief have added their voices to the chorus calling for Attawapiskat Chief T...

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Sandy Garossino: Idle No More: First Nations Governance Coded To Fail

2013-01-10T13:15:48Z

The Deloitte & Touche audit of Attawapiskat is a textbook outcome of the fatal weakness in Canada's current model of First Nations governance, which is coded to fail. There could be hundreds of Attawapiskats.

Does anyone know what the average First Nations chief's level of training and management experience is? Or the average training and experience of band councillors? How many building inspectors live within 50 miles of Attawapiskat? How about CAs, CGAs or project managers capable of supervising and maintaining records on multiple construction sites?

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Governor General To Meet First Nations Leaders

2013-01-10T12:24:17Z

OTTAWA - The plans for Stephen Harper's high-stakes meeting with First Nations leaders on Friday are awash in confusion.After a week of frenetic meeti...

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J.J. McCullough: Media Bites: Chief Spence, Your 15 Minutes Are Up

2013-01-10T08:57:40Z

What makes this sideshow all the more embarrassing is that there's been a complete breakdown in the Chief's relationship with the one independent agency whose power actually does matter -- the press. The indifferent contempt in which she has so consistently held the press is beginning to return in kind. You can almost hear her 15 minutes ticking away. To put it bluntly, you can't just do this.

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Spence's Partner Declared Bankruptcy Before Managing Band's Books

2013-01-10T04:30:08Z

OTTAWA - Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence's romantic partner — once in charge of the books at the troubled northern Ontario reserve — has had his...

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Daniel Alexandre Portoraro: Don't Be Fooled By Chief Spence's Circus

2013-01-09T17:23:07Z

What we have here is a woman who bemoans the impoverished nature of her reserve while she is partly to blame for it; a woman who has the ability to make things better, but won't because not everyone has RSVP'd to her invitation. What was once a justified pursuit to better the pitiful lives of the disenfranchised in First Nations communities has become a circus in which there is no possibility of dialogue unless every single demand is met. Spence is not a symbol to be admired. She is but one of the myriad reasons why First Nation communities exist in the sad way that they do, and it's time for her to go.

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Inside Attawapiskat's Financial Woes

2013-01-09T12:20:36Z

An audit of the financial records of the Attawapiskat First Nations reserve has raised questions about the situation on the northern Ontario reserve a...

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Yan Roberts: Theresa Spence Has Stirred our Sense of Participation

2013-01-09T07:55:58Z

Chief Spence's hunger strike is the perfect unexpected act; it is asymmetrical action in the face of controllable expectations. She is laying everything on the line to reclaim the sacredness of her community and she is succeeding. Use this as inspiration for your own acts.

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Mark Milke: What Idle No More Should Really Be Protesting

2013-01-09T07:54:03Z

In the wake of the Idle No More protests that have blocked railway lines and have hinted at more mischief, multiple grievances have been advanced in place of clear-headed analyses. But none of the slogans, clichés and guilt-tripping get to the bottom of why some aboriginals, especially on reserves, are in a sorry state. Fundamental problems with how reserves are run — and the unsustainable nature of some of those rural collectives — is what protesters should ponder.

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Global News Team Allegedly Kicked Out Of Attawapiskat

2013-01-08T21:38:51Z

A Global News TV crew has been threatened with arrest and removed from Attawapiskat, the Northern Ontario aboriginal community that has been thrust i...

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Bob Rae: This Land Was Their Land

2013-01-07T15:19:40Z

The issues Chief Spence is raising -- terrible living conditions, deep neglect, poverty and powerlessness -- will not go away, and will not disappear in the face of attack. They are the shame of our nation and must be addressed. But the Conservatives have rejected replacing the Indian Act with a real transfer of power, and the implementation of the self government agreements which all Canadian governments agreed to in Charlottetown 20 years ago. They have offered nothing that even begins to address the issues. We shall all pay a heavy price for this lack of leadership.

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Audit Reveals Major Issues With Reserve Spending

2013-01-07T12:59:51Z

OTTAWA - The battle over the plight of Canada's First Nations escalated Monday amid accusations of a cynical public relations ploy by the Harper gover...

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