Indigenous territory

2 Minutes

Canada Indigenous peoples

East coast Indigenous nation asserts right to harvest wood

PV April 9, 2020

The second-largest Indigenous nation in New Brunswick is suing the provincial government for depriving it of a treaty right to harvest timber. The Wolastoqey Nation, which occupies the watershed of the Wolastoq (Saint John)...

7 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment Indigenous peoples

First Nations back in court to fight TMX, defend land

PV January 9, 2020

(PV Staff, with files from Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust) Representatives of Indigenous communities fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project (TMX) in the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) gathered on December 16, the...

8 Minutes

Canada Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples want their #LandBack

PV January 9, 2020

On December 31, the BC Supreme Court ruled in favour of Coastal GasLink (CGL), which has never obtained consent from the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs to work on un-surrendered traditional Indigenous territories in the north-central...

3 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment

Morneau and climate change: putting out a housefire with gasoline

Editorial November 29, 2019

This summer, in a stunning use of Orwellian doublespeak, Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would provide a half billion dollars each year for government spending to fight climate...