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Canada town council gets alternative after refusal to take King's oath

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Newly-elected council of Dawson City , Yukon , refused to take the King's oath.

Councillor Darwyn Lynn , a member of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation , said he was hesitant to take it because of Canada 's fraught history with indigenous peoples.

Yukon has now changed the law to give the option of taking one of the two oaths.

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English

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55

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