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    Canada: Prime Minister to apologise
    11 June 2008 Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper is due to deliver a formal apology today to the thousands of Aboriginal Canadians who passed through the country's residential school system.
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    Canada: Book exposing Innu persecution wins award
    31 May 2006 Professor Colin Samson, associate and supporter of Survival International, has won the prestigious Pierre Savard Award for his book on the forced assimilation of the Innu people of the Labrador-Québec peninsula.
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    Canada: Columbus Day marked by Indians' suicide 'epidemic'
    14 October 2004 Indians in North and South America are killing themselves in record numbers as the continent marks Columbus Day (12th October). In one small Indian community in Canada, four young people have hanged themselves in the past three months alone.
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    Canada: Innu return to London with a new initiative to help young Innu people
    6 April 2004 Four years after coming to London to launch Survival International's report 'Canada's Tibet: the killing of the Innu', Jean-Pierre Ashini has returned to publicise a new initiative which seeks to reconnect young Innu with their land.
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    Canada: Canadian natives help isolated tribe in India
    19 March 2002 A Canadian chief is today calling on an Indian court to prevent the recently contacted Jarawa tribe from being brought out of their forest home. Local authorities in the Andaman Islands, Indian territories in the Bay of Bengal, planned to remove the nomad