Put First Nations in charge of oil pipeline safety and spill response – The Globe and Mail
Jul. 24, 2015 Roger McDonnell is an anthropologist who has spent decades developing programs with First Nations communities across central Alberta and throughout the boreal forest on issues related to…
Webequie joins the North Star club – NOB
7/24/2015 Thunder Bay’s North Star Air announced it has signed a “strategic business agreement” with Webequie First Nation. Webequie joins nine other First Nation communities in an alliance with the…
Video: A new model for First Nations engagement with business – Vancouver Sun
July 24, 2015 This week’s Conversation That Matter features Dallas Smith, Board President, Nanwakolas Council – a council of seven first nations on northern Vancouver Island and the Central Coast.…
Canada’s Ministers of Energy and Mines Announce Priorities for Upcoming Year – Mining Life
Jul 24, 2015 The federal, provincial, and territorial ministers responsible for energy and mines met in Halifax, Nova Scotia earlier this week and announced significant progress supporting enhanced economic growth,…
How Gladue principles were – or weren’t – applied in a home invasion case before Alberta Court of Appeal – APTN
July 24, 2015 It’s been nearly 16 years since the Supreme Court of Canada made its historic “Gladue” ruling setting in motion a direct connection to the trauma of residential…
Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre tries to rebuild after funding suspended following audit – Kawartha Media Group
Audit finds alleged illegal acts by former board and executive director PETERBOROUGH– The Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre has a new board of directors to rebuild its community image after its former…
Kanesatake Grand Chief has doubts about energy board’s objectivity on Energy East Pipeline – Montreal Gazette
July 23, 2015 Serge Simon says the National Energy Board is little more than a “kangaroo court.” Even so, the Kanesatake Grand Chief will join hundreds of First Nations leaders…
Cuthand: Conservatives treat First Nations as disposable – StarPhoenix
July 24, 2015 This summer’s annual meeting of the Assembly of First Nations saw a change, with leaders speaking out against the Conservative government. “We’ve had nine years of a…
Third in a series: Aboriginal tourism in Northern Ontario – CTV
July 24, 2015 Part three of our three part series on Aboriginal Tourism in Canada, showcases Loren Christie experiencing the Great Spirit Circle Trail. Eight First Nation communities, all part…
A dissident Nunavik community shifts towards the JBNQA – Nunatsiaq News
July 24, 2015 “We will be in better control of our own land affairs” To an outsider, a lot has changed in Ivujivik in recent years, as Nunavik’s northernmost community…
