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A lot of our leaders said that the Indian Act is perhaps outdated," [Morley Watson] said. "There's perhaps new ways to operate, new ways to have an act that helps us govern our lives. We have to approach this with extreme caution because again, we don't know all the answers right now.
"A lot of times in the past, in First Nations communities, we've been able to resolve a lot of these issues amongst ourselves," said Watson.
"Our First Nations living under the Indian Act could not launch complaints against anyone. And an example of that is in housing. If our band membership applied for housing and was denied, that member felt that he or she was not fairly dealt with, he or she could not file a complaint against the human rights commission," Watson said.
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Now [Nicolas Sarkozy], himself the son of a Hungarian immigrant, has proposed creating a ministry of "national immigration and national identity" -- a proposal Vincent Tiberj, an expert at Paris' Institute of Political Sciences, called "clearly an appeal to the extreme right.
More or less half of the electorate feels threatened by Sarkozy, so this is a huge handicap," said Tiberj. "He has the profile of a divider, not a uniter."
In numerous interviews, voters opposed to Royal hastened to deny sexism even when the question had not been asked. "It's not because she's a woman," said Alain Busseuil, 48, who owns a sandwich-making business. "It's not for that at all."
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We are concerned about it," [Gary Wlaschuk] said. "It's something we're definitely looking for.
"We're just on the verge of extreme right now," he said. "The fire danger is very high."
"We've been here for a couple of days so it's time for music," she said.
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The message coming out of that end - the noisy extreme right - is to slap a thin coat of religious paint over popular sentiment, which is: stay as you are, never change; familiar is good, new is scary; reinforce prejudices, never rock the boat; never look for deep meanings, a surface reading is good enough; if we get rid of those 'others' (foreigners, liberals, etc.) we'll be alright; if a person is a threat, punish him hard, or send him to prison and throw away the key; if a new idea is a threat, denounce it, don't bother to examine it; beware of 'odd ducks' like gays, transsexuals, poets, arty folk, and both the mentally handicapped and the super-intelligent (ask Ignatieff about that one); especially beware of articulate, intelligent females (Hillary!); never believe anything that has...
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Iran is already calling [George W. Bush] a 'loser.' In a meeting in Damascus on Sunday with the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Iranian Foreign Minister Manucher Motaki said Bush has already lost the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He urged them to deal a similar blow to Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. He explained that after the elections next week, Bush will become politically paralyzed and won't be able to initiate any political moves.
[Condoleezza Rice] distanced herself immediately from her adviser's statement and she informed Olmert that there is no linkage between Iran and the Palestinian problem. However, despite this denial, Israeli officials don't believe [Philip Zelikow] would have made this statement witho...
... war and especially after adding the extreme-right Avigdor Lieberman to Olmert's team. Lieberma...
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They were shouting 'filthy Jew' and when they saw our colleague, who comes from the Caribbean, they also yelled, 'filthy black, we're going to get you," said a police union official, Luc Poignant.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said some PSG fans shouted "Death to the Jew" as they attacked the Hapoel fan, whom officials said was French. The police officer first responded with tear gas, but was knocked to the ground by a blow to the head and kick to the stomach, Sarkozy said. He then drew his gun and opened fire.
Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said the PSG supporters had made Nazi salutes and shouted, "Le Pen, president," a reference to Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme-right National Front party.
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... as a continuum that spans from an extreme remedial approach atone end to an extreme rights-b...
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... unconstitutional -- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 2(d) -- Act Respecting Labour Rel... infringement of the democratic right and extreme restriction of the positive right of association. ...
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To this end, BMW has layered one of the better all-wheel drive systems (its xDrive) with a rear differential that can send more power to the left or right wheel depending upon what's happening. Even on the frozen lakes north of Arjeplog, a sleepy town in northern Sweden that's just 56 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, you have to do something pretty radical and/or stupid to upset the system's desire to keep the car pointed in the right direction. Even when liberties are taken to the extreme and DPC is not enough to right the wrong, there's always the stability control system (DSC) waiting in the wings.
Dynamic Performance Control sets new standards for all-wheel drive and what is expected of it. Unlike the slip-first-grip-later systems, xDrive reacts to changing conditions in less ...
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I was very depressed," says [Jennifer Clarke], cuddling her daughter. "We had agreed we wouldn't go to any extreme measures financially or emotionally.
"Right from the start, we thought this wasn't going to last," she says. "We thought I was pregnant but I'd miscarry."
"Right now, we have a perfect life," she says, cradling [Catherine Grace Bresant]. "Another would be nice, but if this is it, we are very fortunate."