The Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en peoples collaborated in 1987 to challenge the British Columbia government and legally establish title to their ancestral territories. That landmark case, known as the Delgamuukw case, acknowledged that Aboriginal title over traditional lands exists and is possible to…
VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) — Forestry workers and Indigenous rights demonstrators are heading to the B.C. legislature to send the province a message as the annual budget is set to be revealed.
While the provincial budget isn’t expected to offer any surprises or big announcements, both groups gearing up…
A Revery Architecture acaba de lançar o projeto de um novo mega empreendimento residencial desenvolvido para a a Squamish First Nation, uma organização sem fins lucrativos voltada à promoção de projetos habitacionais no Canadá. Desenvolvido em conjunto com os empreendedores da Westbank, o projeto…
Em todo o mundo, as comunidades estão lutando para defender suas terras, ar, água, florestas e seus meios de subsistência de projetos prejudiciais e atividades extrativistas com fortes impactos ambientais e sociais: mineração, represas, plantações de árvores, fracking, queima de gás, incineradores…
University, religious, sports and other gatherings often begin with an Indigenous Land acknowledgement. For instance, this article was written in Montréal, or Tiohtiá:ke, on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk), a place which has long served as a site of meeting and…
Canada aims to conserve 17 per cent of its land and fresh water by the end of 2020. This noble objective will help protect water, air, food and biodiversity and improve the health of humans.
Indigenous peoples in Canada are a part of this conservation movement. As they hunt, gather and harvest,…
Three agreements laid groundwork for possible future land claims, reparations and centuries-long grievances for Métis nations
Growing up as member of Alberta’s Métis community, Audrey Poitras was always acutely aware of the unique struggle her people faced.
The Métis are one of Canada’s Indigenous…
For Ashton Janvier, land and water are the portals to teaching and preserving the Denesuline language, which he says originates from the environment.
“In my culture, everything that we talk about and everything that we teach one another has to do with the land,” said Janvier, an educator and…
Não existe “mineração verde”: o que se propõe é a exploração e degradação de uma região mediante compensação financeira
O Almirante Bento Albuquerque, ministro de Minas e Energia do governo Bolsonaro, disse, em evento da Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada no último dia quatro de março…
Indigenous jurisdiction is at the centre of the dispute over the Coastal GasLink pipeline. The same is true of the Trans Mountain expansion. In both cases, the corporations involved have misunderstood or misrepresented the risks associated with jurisdictional uncertainty.
The Coastal GasLink…
A United Nations commission has released a trio of letters it recently delivered to Canada that warn the country is likely failing to meet its commitments to the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Two of the letters concern infrastructure projects underway in British Columbia.
Those are the Site C dam,…
Police officers deployed near checkpoint where protesters have gathered to block the construction of a natural gas pipeline
Indigenous protesters in Canada have called a growing police presence near their makeshift checkpoint “an act of war”, as tensions mount over a stalled pipeline project in…