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WEEKEND, January 4-6, 2013<br />
Hunger strike. Chief<br />
Spence wants action from<br />
Ottawa within 72 hours<br />
Efforts to broker a solution to<br />
end a 24-day-old hunger strike<br />
by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa<br />
Spence have foundered.<br />
First Nations leaders had<br />
initially proposed a Jan. 24<br />
meeting with Prime Minister<br />
Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen.<br />
David Johnston and took their<br />
proposal to Spence’s teepee on<br />
Thursday afternoon.<br />
But Spence told the aboriginal<br />
leaders Thursday that her<br />
failing health means she can’t<br />
wait that long for assurances<br />
that her concerns about treaty<br />
rights will be addressed.<br />
“She remains committed,<br />
she remains strong and she<br />
remains steadfast in what she<br />
is setting out to do,” said Stan<br />
Louttit, grand chief of the<br />
Mushkegowuk Council, which<br />
includes the Attawapiskat First<br />
Nation in Ontario.<br />
Spence has been subsisting<br />
mainly on fish broth since Dec.<br />
11, huddling in a tent on Victoria<br />
Island on the Ottawa River,<br />
just beyond Parliament Hill.<br />
Spence has no problem<br />
with First Nations leaders<br />
meeting with Harper in a few<br />
weeks time, Louttit said, but<br />
she wants to be included in a<br />
preliminary meeting well before<br />
then.<br />
tHe Canadian preSS<br />
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, right, is in her fourth week of a hunger<br />
strike calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to meet and discuss First<br />
Nations issues. Sean KilpatricK/tHe canaDian preSS<br />
news<br />
11<br />
Unwanted pregnancy<br />
Man who poked<br />
holes in condoms<br />
loses sexual<br />
assault appeal<br />
A Nova Scotia man convicted<br />
of sexual assault for<br />
trying to trick his girlfriend<br />
into becoming pregnant<br />
by poking holes in her condoms<br />
has lost his appeal.<br />
Craig Jaret Hutchinson<br />
of Shelburne County was<br />
given an 18-month sentence<br />
in late 2011 after his<br />
judge-only trial heard that<br />
he pricked his girlfriend’s<br />
condoms with a pin in 2006<br />
so she would get pregnant<br />
and not break up with him.<br />
The Halifax-area woman<br />
became pregnant and had<br />
an abortion, but she later<br />
suffered an infection of her<br />
uterus.<br />
Hutchinson later filed<br />
an appeal, arguing that<br />
the Nova Scotia Supreme<br />
Court’s sentence was excessive<br />
and that the woman<br />
voluntarily consented to<br />
having sex with him.<br />
But in a 4-1 majority<br />
decision, the court said<br />
the sentence was not unfit<br />
and the trial judge was<br />
correct to conclude that the<br />
woman did not consent to<br />
having unprotected sex.<br />
tHe Canadian preSS
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