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Site C Dam is Final Straw for B.C.'s Treaty 8 First Nations
The B.C. government cannot expect support from First Nations for its much-touted liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects if the province insists on steamrolling ahead with the Site C dam, a First Nations...
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Former Grassy Narrows Chief Endures Hunger Strike in Face of Ongoing Mercury...
Former Chief of the Anishinaabe of Grassy Narrows, Steve Fobister Sr., is enduring a hunger strike to “call for justice for mercury survivors” suffering from the negative health effects of a mercury...
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Harper Government’s Economic Development Ignores Human, Indigenous Rights:...
“Responsible Resource Development.”“World-Class Environmental Monitoring.”“Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity.”These are just some of the titles to emerge from the Harper government in recent years...
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B.C. First Nation Sues Province for 'Unprecedented Industrial Disturbance' in...
The Blueberry River First Nation from northeastern B.C. has filed a lawsuit against the province for allowing “unprecedented industrial disturbance” to threaten “their way of life,” according to a...
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Truth and Reconciliation Recommendations Could Change 'Business-As-Usual' in...
Residential school survivors, their families, indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians alike packed the ballroom of the Delta Ottawa hotel on Tuesday for the release of the Truth and Reconciliation...
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First Nations Legal Fight Against Jumbo Glacier Ski Resort Struck Down in...
The Ktunaxa Nation is deeply disappointed with a B.C. Court of Appeal ruling on a challenge to the province’s approval of Jumbo Glacier Resort’s development plans, says Kathryn Teneese, Ktunaxa Nation...
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Salmon Farmer Cermaq Dismantles Ocean Pen Near Tofino Following Two-Week...
A new salmon farm in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island was dismantled and hauled away this week after being occupied by members of Ahousaht First Nations and local supporters from Tofino.“This is the...
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Canada’s Implementation of UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights Raises...
After years of refusal by the Conservative government, Canada is preparing to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) — a decision that could herald the...
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Canada Intervenes To Keep Human and Indigenous Rights in Climate Treaty...
On Wednesday a group of international ministers and delegations worked through the night refining a fresh draft of the text that will form the world’s first global climate treaty.Major redline issues...
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Indigenous Leaders Cry Foul About Lack of Input Into National Climate Plan
Many Indigenous leaders have expressed disappointment that only the leaders of the national organizations representing Inuit, Métis and First Nations were allowed to fully participate in the talks at a...
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Supreme Court To Hear Ktunaxa Nation’s Jumbo Glacier Resort Appeal on Freedom...
The Ktunaxa Nation, which for 25 years has battled plans to build a massive ski resort on land that is considered sacred, will make its case to Canada’s top court with a freedom of religion argument...
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‘It’s No Longer About Saying No’: How B.C.’s First Nations Are Taking Charge...
As the crow flies, the territory of the Tsilhqot’in Nation lies just 300 kilometres north of Vancouver — but, cut off by the coastal mountains, it feels like a world away. By car it takes about nine...
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Pipelines or Indigenous Rights? Premier Notley Can't Have Both
The speech Alberta Premier Rachel Notley gave to over 1,000 federal NDP delegates on Saturday in Edmonton’s Shaw Convention Centre was a stunning thing to behold.In a mere half-hour, she received...
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WATCH: Halalt First Nation’s Fight Against Vancouver Island Pulp Mill Pollution
When the Catalyst Paper Company’s pulp mill was renovated in the 1980s, ancestral remains of the Halalt First Nation were found underneath a cement helicopter pad. The discovery was yet another piece...
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Fracking, Industrial Activity Threatens Blueberry River Nation's Way of Life
Industrial activity has profoundly affected the Blueberry River First Nations in northern B.C. A recent Atlas of Cumulative Landscape Disturbance, by the First Nations, the David Suzuki Foundation and...
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