Canada's current philosophical approach is a far cry from the 1969 attempt by Pierre Trudeau, another former prime minister, to assimilate the country's aboriginals by abolishing separate Indian status and, with it, any right to special treatment by the state.

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In some ways, it is deceptive to separate race and status in the empire.

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In a separate declaration on the future status of Kosovo, the EU has left the door open for a conditional independence of the disputed territory, by ruling out any partition or union of Kosovo with another country, as well as any solution resulting from the use of force.

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And in the current economic climate, an upgrading of the IPCC's institutional scale and a concomitantly greater cost was never politically attractive - just as the idea, mooted last year, of upgrading the UN climate convention to the status of a separate agency did not, in the end, receive political approval.

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Taxpayers who share a home, regardless of filing status, may each claim the safe harbor deduction provided they have separate and distinct home office areas.

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In a separate report in February, published in Child Trends, data show that regardless of economic status, ethnicity or education, the single mothers who were regularly offered emotional support had "children and adolescents who were also more likely to display social competence and school engagement, " compared with single mothers without social support.

CNN: Single mothers, stand proud

There's another group that receives citizenship status about a year ago of non-Indian citizens who were listed on a separate roll of non-Indian freed men 100 years ago.

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An oversight in the recent Health and Social Care Act is set to alter this status quo, however, and remove the requirement for STI Clinics to hold their data on separate stand alone systems.

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