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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.

“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,” said Cansfield. “Through these discussions we will determine how the park …

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 …

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’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 …

Canadian Press, FOREST, Ont. — 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.

“I think that there will probably be very strong indications that the land belongs to the aboriginal community,” said Tammy Landau, a professor …