Monday 7 January 2013

Audit of Canada native band casts cloud on protest movement

Attawapiskat Chief Spence takes part in a news conference with supporters outside her teepee in Ottawa OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian native band that successfully pressured the prime minister to hold a special meeting on aboriginal grievances cannot account for millions of dollars in federal funding, according an audit that critics say was leaked to discredit a growing protest movement. Angry native activists, fed up with poor living conditions they blame on decades of neglect from Ottawa, have already blockaded rail lines and threatened to close Canada's borders with the United States as part of a protest campaign they are calling Idle No More. ...




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