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Out with Colonialism and the Indian Act

MONTREAL, Sept. 13 - The Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL) is marking the 1st anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by participating in the Together for Aboriginal Rights! demonstration being held in the streets of Montreal today.

World Wildlife Fund press release 

Toronto: September 14, 2008

Declining ice thickness and what is looking like the second lowest coverage on record means that Arctic sea ice may well have reached its lowest levels ever in terms of total volume. The final figures on the minimum ice coverage for this year are expected in a matter of days, but this year’s minimum figures are already flirting with last year’s record low of 1.59 million square miles, or 4.13 million square kilometres.