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The Grand Erie District School Board is facing a funding shortfall for the first year of full-day kindergarten. The board is projecting a shortage of about $500,000. School trustees say the province is putting the program in place without giving the school boards enough funding. There will be nine schools within the board offering full-day kindergarten in September. Four schools in the Catholic board will also offer the program.

Several members of Six Nations are voicing their concerns over the HST. Six Nations people joined aboriginals from across Ontario to rally on Parliament Hill and the federal Finance Department office yesterday. The dozens of protesters are against the harmonized sales tax, saying it violates their treaty and constitutional rights. Currently, Six Nations people are exempt from the PST and get it discounted at the register. Aboriginals are looking to see that right protected.