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A weekend talk will bring together Native supporters and opponents of the Zibi condo project on the Ottawa River as part of Ottawa’s Arboretum arts and music festival.

Native leaders and artists will discuss the redevelopment of Chaudière and Albert islands during the free panel discussion titled Unceded Ottawa: the Algonquin and the Outaouais, scheduled for noon Saturday at the Albert Island warehouse.

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A group has spoken out against Windmill Development Group’s $1.2-billion Zibi development — a project otherwise welcomed by leaders of the Algonquin community.

Chief Kirby Whiteduck, a panel member who is optimistic about the project’s economic benefits and environmentally friendly approach, said opponents don’t speak for the Algonquin nation.

“I know there are opposing groups and people who claim to be Algonquin, but I don’t know what their actual ancestry is. We’ve never heard of them before,” Whiteduck, of the Pikwàkanagàn First Nation at Golden Lake, Ont., said Tuesday.