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	<title>Intercontinental Cry &#187; Ipperwash</title>
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		<title>Ontario Government To Return Ipperwash Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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At a press conference this morning, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant along with Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield announced Ontario will be returning Ipperwash Provincial Park lands to the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation.
 &#8220;As the first step in the process to transfer Ipperwash Provincial Park from the province to the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, both parties will work together with the local communities to develop an interim co-management plan,&#8221; said Cansfield. &#8220;Through these discussions we will determine how the park lands will be used and managed until the transfer is completed.&#8221; 
This announcement comes in the wake of the Ipperwash Inquiry, which was concluded on May 31, 2007.  Among other things,  the final report called for a resolution of the Ipperwash Provincial Park lands.
A day after the report was released,  Sam George,  the brother of slain indigenous protester Dudley George, formally requested the return of Ipperwash Provincial Park to his people. &#8220;Can we agree, in the next week or so, to commit that those 109 acres [about 269 hectares] be returned to native people?&#8221;  &#8220;I think such a commitment would be a strong signal to people across the country, native and non-native, and that we could increase the trust and honour between us.&#8221;
It may have taken longer longer than a week, but if 6 months is what the government needed to take a positive step in the right direction, and if this does in fact end in the full return of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ipperwash inquiry concludes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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The Ipperwash Inquiry which began in Novermber 2003, finally came to an end yesterday.  The final report concludes that the government of former Ontario premier Mike Harris, Ottawa and the OPP all bear responsibility for the events that led to the death of Dudley George in 1995. 
A number of recommendations have been made in the report. Among them:

Ontario should establish a permanent, independent and impartial agency to facilitate and oversee the settling of land and treaty claims.
The OPP should establish a formal consultation committee with major aboriginal organizations in Ontario.
Provincial police should establish an internal process to ensure racist and culturally insensitive behaviour by police is dealt with
publicly.
The province should establish and fund an Ontario Aboriginal Reconciliation Fund.

Unfortunately, no true conclusions could be drawn in regard to Mike Harris&#8217; racist and incendiary comments, which may have been a direct cause of the unarmed Dudley&#8217;s death.
To that I must ask, why is there no conclusion? And does it have anything to do with the mysterious death of 3 Police Officers, before they had the chance to testify at the inquiry?
These simple questions will like remain unanswered, but that doesn&#8217;t matter so long as there is Justice, and so long as Dudley didn&#8217;t die for nothing&#8230;
In respect to this, let us hope that Canada responsibly acts on what Dudley&#8217;s brother urged earlier today&#8230; for Canada and Ontario to Return Ipperwash Provincial Park to the Stoney Point First Nation. It&#8217;s time to return the land Canada. 
From the CBC -  &#8220;Can we agree, in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ipperwash inquiry hears final arguments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former Mike Harris government bears indirect responsibility for the police shooting death of aboriginal protester Dudley George in 1995, the Ipperwash inquiry heard during closing arguments on Monday morning.
A lawyer representing George&#8217;s family, Murray Klippenstein, said during the first day of closing arguments at the inquiry that there are two parallel tracks to understanding what happened the day George was killed.
George was shot by an Ontario Provincial Police officer on Sept. 6, 1995, during a standoff at Ipperwash Provincial Park in southwestern Ontario.
Klippenstein wondered why the OPP called in the crowd-management unit wearing riot gear the day George was shot.
This was not part of a plan and was not approved by commanders, he argued, but showed a commitment and a mindset predisposed to the use of force.
Harris made his opinion clear
The second question, he said, was where that mindset came from.
The family&#8217;s lawyer argued it stemmed from Queen&#8217;s Park, where Ontario&#8217;s premier at the time, Mike Harris, made his opinion clear that he wanted the aboriginal protesters out of the park.
No direct orders came from Harris, but his opinion was transmitted to police on a number of occasions, Klippenstein argued.
He said OPP officers reacted to what they were told the premier wanted.
Klippenstein cited a number of conversations, including one that has become infamous during the two-year judicial inquiry.
Former attorney general Charles Harnick testified in November 2005 that Harris had said &#8220;I want the fucking Indians out of the park&#8221; during a meeting just hours before the fatal shooting.
No evidence of political interference
Harris&#8217;s lawyer, Peter ...]]></description>
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		<title>Last witness testifies at Ipperwash inquiry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Press, FOREST, Ont. &#8212; After two years and some 140 witnesses, testimony at an often confrontational and controversial inquiry into the 1995 shooting death of Dudley George at Ipperwash Provincial Park came to an end Wednesday. And while closing arguments are still two months away and final recommendations not expected before the end of the year, experts say the inquiry will likely establish new credibility for the aboriginal claim that started the standoff in the first place.
&#8220;I think that there will probably be very strong indications that the land belongs to the aboriginal community,&#8221; said Tammy Landau, a professor at Ryerson University&#8217;s School of Criminal Justice in Toronto. The standoff in Ipperwash began in 1993 when a group of aboriginals occupied an army camp on a block of land seized by Ottawa under the War Measures Act in 1942. In 1995, they moved to the adjacent Ipperwash Provincial Park, citing the presence of a burial ground.
Under cover of night on Sept. 6, 1995, George was shot and killed by Ontario police Acting Sgt. Kenneth Deane as officers clad in riot gear marched on the occupation.
Deane, who died earlier this year in a car accident, was convicted of criminal negligence in George&#8217;s death, but his trial offered only partial  closure
to the George family, said Landau, who specializes in aboriginal justice issues.
&#8220;It really didn&#8217;t allow all the facts (of the standoff) to come out - who owned the land, what were the more broader systemic problems between (police) and the aboriginal community,&#8221; Landau said.
&#8220;I think ...]]></description>
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