PQ leader revives debate over how much of Canada’s assets – and debt – belong to Quebec – National Post
August 25, 2015 Coming off a round of summer campaigning with Bloc Québécois chief Gilles Duceppe, Parti Québécois Leader Pierre Karl Péladeau said Tuesday an independent Quebec would demand its…
Grand Chief lauds signing of accord – Timmins Press
August 25, 2015 TIMMINS – Grand Chief Jonathan Solomon of the Mushkegowuk Council is lauding the new political accord between the provincial government and the Chiefs of Ontario as a historic step…
2015 Saskatchewan Federal Election Riding Profiles – Regina Leader-Post
August 25, 2015 The Leader-Post and The StarPhoenix have teamed up to bring you full profiles of each of Saskatchewan’s 14 ridings for this year’s Federal Election to be held…
Rallying the Vote, On and Off Reserve – TheTyee.ca
Grassroots organizers shoot for the greatest Indigenous voter turnout in Canadian history. Indigenous people in Canada are far from apolitical or apathetic. A legacy of several hundred years of colonialism…
B C Update – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Aug 25, 2015 (BC-Cop-Killer-Parole) The parole board wants a man who killed a Delta police officer in 1974 to no longer depend on the support…
Tar Ponds court action shut down after 11 years of wrangling – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Aug 25, 2015 HALIFAX – The law firm that represents Cape Breton residents who launched a class-action lawsuit claiming the Sydney tar ponds exposed them…
Nanaimo hotel plans might be down, but they’re not out; Malahat band banking on big business for Bamberton – BiV
Aug. 25, 2015 Nanaimo’s hopes for a hotel adjacent to the Vancouver Island Conference Centre have again collapsed with SSS Manhao International Tourism Group’s withdrawal. SSS Manhao, a subsidiary of…
Canada, Australia, US, Chile and Mexico, the top destinations for mining investors – Mining.com
August 25, 2015 Mining investors, currently experiencing one of the industry’s worst times in over a decade, are braced for another round of disastrous results from mining companies this week,…
BC First Nations man charged with illegal elk hunting on aboriginal land – The Globe and Mail
Aug. 24, 2015 A member of the Ucluelet First Nation on Vancouver Island has been charged with illegally killing and possessing elk on aboriginal land, one of nearly two dozen…
NWT aboriginal groups get 1st payments from devolution’s resource revenue – CBC
Tlicho receive nearly $1M share of revenues from mining, oil and gas Nine aboriginal groups in the N.W.T. are getting their first taste of devolution money this month, with one…
