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CBC;

An aboriginal association tasked with disbursing federal funds for flood evacuees has spent over $1 million in eight months on snacks for evacuees, CBC news has learned.
The Manitoba Association of Native Fire Fighters (MANFF) spent the money, which was over and above the three meals a day Manitoba evacuees from the 2011 flood received from the hotels they were staying in.
Ted Ducharme, a MANFF community liaison who is currently on stress leave, has provided documents to CBC News that show the organization paid Winnipeg’s Mona Lisa Ristorante Italiano more than $1 million to provide “light refreshment” in the evenings to hotel-bound evacuees.
A copy of a ledger Ducharme provided to CBC News shows the restaurant delivered up to $1,500 worth of snacks every day to each hotel housing evacuees from April 2012 to December 2012.

If you build it, they will come.
h/t Orville

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

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Via email: “What sort of precedent is this going to set? In addition to the 117,000 acres, the Algonquin’s will also receive $300 million. This has been pushed through with no reporting (at least that I’ve seen). At the information session my brother attended, it was presented as a done deal.”

More information and dates of the remaining Public Information Sessions can be found at the Algonquin Land Claim website.

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

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The 15th Annual Teddy Awards:

Federal Teddy Winner: Chief Roger Redman, Standing Buffalo First Nation
When band members gathered to impeach him, the Chief padlocked the band office and confiscated the chequebook. For leading the Standing Buffalo reserve, home to 443 people, Chief Redman took home more after-tax income than the Prime Minister, and each of his councillors out-earned Saskatchewan’s premier.

The full list of award winners at the link.

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Some litigants are more equal than others;

A judge urged De Beers Canada Monday to “think twice” before launching lawsuits against demonstrators who blockaded the ice road leading to the company’s Victor diamond mine.
Superior Court Judge Robert Riopelle gave the caution to De Beers lawyer Neal Smitheman when he asked about opportunities to determine costs and file for damages.

And somehow, he’ll remain on the bench.

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Sun News;

In December 2005, the chief and council of Chemawawin First Nation had drained almost all of the $400,000 Chemawawin Resource Trust Fund to support representatives on the Cedar Lake Resource Management Board, Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) prairie director Colin Craig revealed Wednesday.
Band members sent a letter to Craig last month to inform him of the situation.
“Manitoba Hydro was very clear in the trust fund agreement — the trustees were forbidden from spending the $400,000 initial capital investment,” Craig wrote in a blog post addressed to Manitoba Hydro CEO Scott Thomson.
“The band was only to use interest from the fund.”

The NDP’s Apartheid Ruminations

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If there were a referendum in Canada, asking whether all citizens should be treated equally or whether one group should have extraordinary powers and hold a veto over everyone else’s wishes, how might that vote turn out?
One thus has to wonder why Thomas Mulcair and the NDP are toying around with the idea of a future Canada divided along ethnic lines?
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John Ivison examines the strange happenings in the NDP “braintrust” in Ottawa. He also discusses the issue with Charles Adler. David Akin and Brian Lilley also discuss it here.

Silencing those Aboriginals Who Disagree with “Idle No More”

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Red Deer resident Anthony Sowan is a full status Cree Indian. And he doesn’t agree with Idle No More whatsoever. So he expressed his opinions publicly and this is what happened. Here’s his original Facebook posting that started the ball rolling.
When republished on the Huffington Post Canada, one Idle No More supporter inadvertently let the cat out of the bag about the real purpose of the movement:

Idle No More is about forming a socialist government, in equal partnership with Indigenous people and settlers, where building community, culture, and sharing is the common goal, not a capitalist selfishness, that borrows off the less fortunate. It’s a reverse way of thinking, contribute to my community FIRST, ask for what I need last. Not everyone gets it yet!

Kitimat LNG Gets Go Ahead

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From the press release;

The Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, today announced new regulations that will allow the proposed Kitimat LNG liquefied natural gas facility on the Haisla First Nation’s Bees Indian Reserve No. 6 to proceed.
The Kitimat LNG facility will provide Canada’s energy producers with a doorway to overseas markets, in addition to creating jobs and economic growth opportunities for the Haisla First Nation and the entire northwest region of British Columbia.
“Our government continues to take steps that will contribute to job creation, economic growth and Canada’s long-term prosperity,” said Minister Duncan. “The Kitimat LNG facility will create well-paying jobs in British Columbia, while giving Canadian energy producers access to important overseas markets. I applaud the Haisla First Nation for their vision, leadership and commitment to seizing this opportunity for their community.”
The Haisla Natural Gas Facility Regulations were created under the First Nations Commercial and Industrial Development Act (FNCIDA). FNCIDA was a First Nations-led initiative that allows the government to work with First Nations and provincial regulatory authorities to create regulations for complex commercial and industrial development projects on reserve.

Those dirty racists.

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Let’s say that somehow, the eruption we’ve all agreed to call Idle No More results in a historic breakthrough between Ottawa and Canada’s diverse and deeply troubled First Nations.
Let’s say the covenant recognizes and affirms aboriginal and treaty rights and contains a specific, collaborative action plan to deal with the urgent challenges of aboriginal childhood education, economic development, First Nations governance and accountability. Plus it comes with a startup $275 million just to be sure the rubber hits the road. And it’s announced at a historic gathering in Ottawa with the senior First Nations chiefs, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and even Governor-General David Johnston.
Now let’s say along comes an obstructionist “movement” that masquerades as militant but is really a minority faction of eccentric and reactionary Indian band chiefs who are hopelessly devoted to the status quo. They set out to methodically undermine the agreement. They hijack the work plan. Within a year they’ve pretty well sabotaged the whole thing.

A terrific column by Terry Glavin.

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