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• BC Women Demand Inquiry

  
  Women of History — Authority: 135
  From the Vancouver Sun : More than 100 women rallied in Crab Park in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside Sunday to demand the federal government strike a public inquiry into the more than 500 missing and murdered aboriginal women cases across Canada. "Weve asked and asked again but there is no answer," said Bernie ...
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• Four Phases of Aboriginal Art

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 453
  Arthur Lubow writes about Aboriginal art and its origins as a collecting category for Smithsonian Magazine . Lubow points out that Aboriginal art generates $200 million a year (presumably Australian dollars but the story doesn’t say) in sales. And prices have risen dramatically in recent years: A mural-size 1977 ...
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• Geoffrey Parker’s Children’s Game Cube Compendium Is A Real Catch!

  
  Elite Choice — Authority: 548
  The kiddos of the world (as well as some grown-ups who never like to let go of the child within) will have a lot to thank Geoffrey Parker for. Well, the man has a reputation for spoiling you with the luxury offerings he makes in the name of adding an extra zing to the ordinary games we all have grown up playing. All ...
  2 days ago

• Beat it

  
  Trailer Park Refugee — Authority: 425
  Primal.  From the deepest recesses of our dinosaur brain, we know how to do it.  It defies geography.  Defies culture.  Toddlers do it, along with their monkey cousins. Drumming.  Beats and rhythm come from inside us, perhaps driven by the heartbeat.  It’s spiritual – on an individual as well as communal ...
  4 days ago

• Indigenous News Update

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 119
  Indigenous communities need to know more about the 40yr leases being offered in exchange for better housing. http://bit.ly/79XNqV Remote Housing Australia can build a house in remote indigenous communities at 1/3 cost due to new building materials http://bit.ly/6ehLSW “Tough love” has worked well for many ...
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• Fitzroy Crossing breathes again

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Tony Barrass; 1/1/10Fitzroy Crossing is finally “breathing” two years after becoming the first town in Western Australia to demand liquor restrictions, but local police are now confronting a new dilemma; how to stop Christmas hampers brimming with hard liquor being home-delivered to the town’s alcoholics. As one ...
  5 days ago

• Introducing Colin Morrison: “The Spirit of the Wolf”

  
  Off the Wall — Authority: 114
  A couple of months ago, Haisla artist John Wilson told me about a promising first year student at the Freda Diesing School named Colin Morrison. After seeing some minor pieces by him, I commissioned a painting. It turned out to be his first professional sale. I am absolutely confident that it won’t be his last – ...
  6 days ago

• Harper Could Use Prorogue To Save Canada Billions

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 135
  With a Parliament prorogue until after the Olympics, I think he should have taken a few more steps to save us some serious money: - Use the period to layoff all MLAs and make them apply for  (un)eployment insurance. This would be an eye opener for them. maybe a few would run off and get real jobs. - Layoff all ...
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• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
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• What If?

  
  Empire Remixed — Authority: 109
  Originally posted on Allan Reeve’s blog , he’s given us permission to repost it here at Empire Remixed in its entirety. Allan is the minister at Trinity United Church in Bobcaygeon , Ontario. by Allan Reeve What if Jesus were born in Canada today? To be true to the story, he would most certainly be ...
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• Roasting ‘racists’ who took booze away

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Tony Barrass; 30/12/09;After yet another thunderous editorial — “It’s time to form a political party exclusively for the north of Australia and let the southerners rot in hell” — outback editor Gerard R. Willett refuses to soften his newspaper’s relentless attacks on booze bans in Halls Creek. The Halls ...
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• Innu seek halt to water management application

  
  The Sir Robert Bond Papers — Authority: 442
  In a 51-page letter filed with the public utilities board on December 15, the Innu of Ekuanitshit are asking the border to refuse to approve any agreement or suspend NALCOR’s application based on NALCOR’s failure to adequately consult with them as provided under the Constitution Act, 1982 . Specifically, the ...
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• Subterranean secrets of our lost giants

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Ingo Helbig; 29/12/09As you drive from Perth down to your favourite Margaret River winery, you’ll pass close to the place where palaeontologist Gavin Prideaux and his team from Adelaide’s Flinders University are brushing and scraping their way towards scientific discovery. You won’t notice them, though. ...
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• NT urged to maintain reforms

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Lindsay Murdoch; 29/12/09Government ministers and departments are suppressing the truth about the malaise in Aboriginal communities, according to the public servant in charge of the Northern Territory’s key indigenous policy. Bob Beadman said the natural tendency of ministers and departments was to portray ...
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• NT urged to maintain reforms

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Lindsay Murdoch; 29/12/09Government ministers and departments are suppressing the truth about the malaise in Aboriginal communities, according to the public servant in charge of the Northern Territory’s key indigenous policy. Bob Beadman said the natural tendency of ministers and departments was to portray ...
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• Dreaming lead to crater

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Deborah Smith; 28/12/09An Aboriginal Dreaming story about a star crashing to earth with a noise like thunder has led to the discovery of an ancient meteorite crater in central Australia. A Sydney astronomer, Duane Hamacher, found the bowl-shaped crater in Palm Valley, about 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, ...
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• 520

  
  hazel8500 — Authority: 137
  A New Favorite NumberI’ve got to go check into www.freewillastrology.com for some synchronicity support.  Ahh shit, its not loading.520 is the (official) number of Missing Native Women from across Canada.520 is slang for I Love You.What is the one thing that cancels darkness? Light.What is the one thing that ...
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• At home on the ranger program

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Tony Barass 26/12/09Be it shooting feral pigs or hooking 2m sawfish from the billabongs of the Fitzroy River, rangers at the Kimberley community of Jarlmadangah are determined to make their own way in an ever-changing world. A stronger understanding of their indigenous culture, a whiff of self-assuredness and a sense ...
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• Dogmatic about outcomes

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Natasha Robinson; 26/12/09Nearly two years before John Howard’s government launched its grand intervention into the remote Northern Territory, a portly, snowy-haired Aboriginal man travelled to Alice Springs to deliver a prescient speech. Mick Gooda, then chief executive of the Co-operative Research Centre for ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  1 week ago

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