[news] Aboriginal Right to Log Upheld by Canadian Court

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Top court upholds aboriginal logging rights on Crown land

Native people have the right to log Crown lands for personal use, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a unanimous judgment on two New Brunswick cases. 

The high court judges decided three New Brunswick men who took Crown wood to make furniture, build a home and burn as firewood were exercising their treaty rights, not stealing. The ru

  


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