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'A new chapter': Quebec First Nation signs five-year fisheries agreement with Ottawa


‘A new chapter’: Quebec First Nation signs five-year fisheries agreement with Ottawa
TE-A-LA-CROIX, Que.
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An Indigenous community in eastern Quebec has signed a five-year agreement with Ottawa to develop a collaborative approach to governing the band’s fisheries.
The federal Fisheries Department issued a statement Sunday saying the Rights Reconciliation Agreement on Fisheries represents a “starting point for discussions” with the Listuguj First Nation. ....

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Why a decades-old dispute over Algonquin ancestry is key to a city hall controversy


Posted: Feb 18, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 18
Ottawa city council is caught in a debate over Algonquin identity, but it didn t start with their approval of a new rural community pitched by the Algonquins of Ontario.(CBC)
In a Pembroke, Ont., boardroom in 2013, a retired judge weighed the evidence to determine whether a voyageur who claimed in the mid-1800s to be a fugitive from an English death sentence was in fact an Algonquin. 
This was no random historical exercise, but a key decision that would affect the claims of hundreds of descendents hoping for a place on the Algonquins of Ontario membership list.  ....

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Council greenlights Algonquins of Ontario land for future suburb


Posted: Feb 11, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 11
The Algonquins of Ontario have purchased lands near Boundary Road and Highway 417 to develop with their partners Taggart. City council has voted to let the Tewin project move forward.(Jean Delisle/CBC)
City council has voted to let Ottawa grow by way of a whole new suburb in the rural south-east, and shot down a motion to give city staff more time to analyze the proposal and consult with all Indigenous groups. 
The Tewin project proposed by the Algonquins of Ontario and Taggart Group infuriated chiefs of Quebec First Nations in the past week, after a joint committee backed by Mayor Jim Watson pointed to reconciliation as a reason to allow 445 hectares of land near Carlsbad Springs to be urbanized. ....

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