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Indian Affairs Minister Jim
Prentice talks to reporters after announcing in the House of Commons April 25 that a final
$1.9 billion residential schools agreement has been reached with all parties, including
three of the national churches that ran the schools. Representatives of the Catholic
Church groups have also given assurances of their support for the agreement, he said.
Cabinet must ratify the agreement. |
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Prime Minister
Stephen Harper speaks at a ceremony on Parliament Hill April 25 honouring the victims of
the Holocaust. "More than 60 years later, it is still difficult to believe a plan of
such scale and such evil as the Holocaust was conceived and carried out -- but it
was," he said. |
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Federal Environment Minister
Rona Ambrose says Canada is considering joining the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean
Development and Climate. She also said the targets to cut emissions under the Kyoto
Protocol are unrealistic. The Partnership, made up of six countries including the United
States and China, has been criticized by environmentalists as being too lax on its
penalties. |
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Archbishop Andrew Hutchison,
the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has announced that he will step down at the
2007 General Synod governing convention. He was elected at the 2004 General Synod. He said
then that he would serve as primate only for a three-year period.
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