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23 Mar Canada’s only native-run university thrown lifeline: Saskatchewan reaches deal to restore $5.2-million in funding for troubled First Nations University of Canada (The Globe and Mail)

Canada’s only aboriginal-run university has been thrown a lifeline by the Saskatchewan government just one week before its money was set to run out.  The province has reached an agreement that will restore $5.2-million in funding for troubled First Nations University of Canada, and is...

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19 Mar First Nations end blockade of Ring of Fire deposit (The Toronto Star)

Northern Development Minister Michael Gravelle is lauding First Nations for ending blockades that prevented mining companies from studying the Ring of Fire chromite deposit in northern Ontario.  Two aboriginal communities had been manning the blockade since January but say they will officially end the protest...

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