"Asset management is going to be tough, " said Katsuhiko Oka, senior vice president at Sony Life Insurance Co.

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Set up by the Conservatives following the 1990 Oka conflict, the commission reported to a Liberal government in 1996.

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In his book, How to Wrap Five Eggs, graphic designer Hideyuki Oka uses black and white photographs to illustrate the beauty of natural packaging.

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Since 1990 some of the fiercest confrontations have been over an oil development near Lubicon Lake, Alberta, a golf course expansion at Oka, Quebec, a provincial park in Ipperwash, Ontario, a ski resort at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, and military flights over Labrador.

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