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NATIONAL NEWS A3

B.C. court grapples with native rights

Eight rulings on issues with far-reaching implications to be handed down today

BY DEBORAH WILSON and RUDY PLATIEL
The Globe and Mail

When the last of a series of high-profile constitutional talks to define aboriginal rights ended in failure and recriminations in 1987, national Indian leaders said they would turn to the courts to determine those rights...

Today the B.C. Court of Appeal will deliver a package of decisions on eight cases that will sketch perhaps the clearest picture yet of those rights since they were incorporated, undefined, into Canada's Constitution in 1982...

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