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CBC News: Much ado about moose: Manitoba’s hunting rift could help reconciliation or sow division

October 12, 2025 — 

Marc Kruse, the director of Indigenous legal learning and services at the University of Manitoba’s law school, says the situation is critical for Manitoba. “It can be an opportunity for reconciliation, or it’s an opportunity for division,” he told CBC News. The right to hunt for sustenance is one of the first and few Aboriginal rights to be “pretty settled” into Canadian law, he said. Canada has entered a new era he calls the “Indigenous renaissance,” where Indigenous nations assert their self-determination, sovereignty and treaty rights.

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