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Historic agreement between Ontario and First Nations to share resource revenues

Historic agreement between Ontario and First Nations to share resource revenues

Historic agreements were reached between the Ontario government and First Nations partners on May 3 that will see mining and forestry revenues shared with the communities on whose lands these activities take place. The agreements to share stumpage fees and […]

Landlocked: Algonquins at odds over land settlement

Landlocked: Algonquins at odds over land settlement

Iroquois and Algonquin chiefs in Ontario and Quebec are denouncing as “fraudulent and illegal” a land agreement recently reached between the federal and Ontario governments and a group called the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO). The tentative treaty concerns approximately 36,000 […]