Imagine if you were living on a First Nations reserve with 50, 60, 70% unemployment and and faced with this.Exactly."A dying way of lifeNew Canada-U.S. treaty and declining salmon stocks could spell the end of...
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Mark Hume covers off many questions several Now Public readers had regarding the position of First Nations, Enviros and the community in general." BARRICADING THE FORESTS Clayoquot partnership...
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Mr. Cuthbert is speaking from his government held employement, a government that continues to stone-wall treaties for all First Nations, Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island and British Columbia Canada. Where...
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Great news today! I hope this truce turns into real plans for real economic value through keeping the trees on their trunks, in their pristine forests. "A two-week truce has been called to cool a...
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The media is now reporting every other day on this issue. August 2nd in Tofino is the first demonstration planned. I still cannot believe we are in 2008 and still dealing with these issues. Sad...
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This is what the First Nations of Clayoquot Sound are facing, high unemployment, poor housing conditions and little hope. With logging and mining about to begin, resource extraction is looked to as the ways...
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Mining, drilling, logging, it is all happening in Clayouquot Sound to benefit the First Nations employement and standard of living. Unemployment rates in the First Nations communities of Clayoquot Sound are...
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Ahousaht (A-House-At) is a First Nations Community in Clayoquot Sound. Economic Development is what is needed in communities facing 90 percent unemployment, whatever form that development comes in. ...
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How many will come to Tofino from all over the planet to save Clayoquot Sound this time? How many will be arrested in the name of old-growth protection?"Save Clayoquot rally on long-weekendGillian Riddell, Westerly NewsPublished: Thursday, July 24, 2008The...
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Remember Clayoquot Sound? British Columbia Vancouver Island? Whatever side you were on get ready.Who would have ever thought this could be re-visited. The Clayoquot Sound area is a UN...
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I can't imagine what the parents are going through and the young lad! Tofino is as beautiful as it is dangerous. I hope they find him quick, it is getting dark. By The Canadian Press and...
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Justice."Polygamist sect leader convicted
Reuters News Agency
September 25, 2007 at 5:13 PM EDT
St. George, Utah — U.S. polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was convicted on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for arranging a marriage between an unwilling 14-year-old girl...