January 13 In 2004, the Quebec government reached a tentative agreement with the Kanesatake police commission to end a potentially explosive Mohawk standoff at Kanesatake reserve near Oka, Que., allowing 60 besieged officers from various native bands to leave the station. Grand Chief James Gabriel, whose house was burned down during the protest, had invited aboriginal officers from outside the reserve to crack down on crime and marijuana growing operations in the community. January 14 In 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made some changes to his cabinet – moving Montreal M-P David Lametti to justice and shuffling Vancouver’s Jody Wilson-Raybould to Veterans Affairs. January 22 In 1690, the Iroquois signed a peace treaty with the British government and the Great Lakes tribes. In 2007, the multiple murder trial of Vancouver-area…
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