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Anna Ziegler at the Main Street intersection where town council approved installing a rainbow crosswalk after she wrote them a letter to suggest it. Story, page 23.
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Northern leaders frustrated by Mother and daughter face B.C. ministers in Vancouver more animal abuse charges
By Chris Gareau
Smithers/Interior News
A group of chiefs and other aboriginal leaders from northern B.C. that included Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan representation left a meeting with provincial cabinet ministers frustrated. They were meeting at the second annual B.C. Cabinet and First Nations Leaders’ Gathering in Vancouver last week. About 500 aboriginal leaders attended. Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief John Ridsdale (Namoks) said a conversation with Aboriginal
Relations and Reconciliation Minister John Rustad and Natural Gas Development Minister and Deputy Premier Rich Coleman was not very productive. “Their agenda was not the same as ours. They kept steering it back to pipelines, and I said we’re not here to talk about pipelines. That’s a separate issue from what we’re here for, and they really did not like that,” Ridsdale said between meetings at the gathering Thursday. “We told them you know our stance on that.” The Wet’suwet’en were given an hour to talk after the group of northern leaders was given a 15-minute meeting. See RECONCILIATION on A12
distress at their residence near the village of Cereal, which is about 300 kilometres northeast of Calgary. Oyen RCMP had gone to the property to arrest the women for allegedly failing to comply with the court-ordered conditions of the ongoing animal abuse case against them in Houston. Those conditions restricted the types of animals they could own and required them to stay in regular contact with a Ministry of Justice worker. See DUO on A3
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A mother and daughter accused of animal abuse crimes in Houston are facing new charges in Alberta, where police and the local SPCA last week seized 53 animals from a rural property they were renting. On Sept. 3, Karin Adams and her daughter Catherine were charged with animal cruelty after police allegedly found animals in
UNIST’OT’EN CAMP GROWS Activists travel from far and wide to help First Nations leaders stop pipelines.
CHANDLER PARK BID SURPRISE Field upgrade delayed after sole bid doubles budget estimate.
MISSING PERSON SEARCH Authorities ramp up search for missing Hazelton man Lester Sampson.
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