Indigenous Rights

• Manitoba MP asks UN for international oversight over failure to search landfills

  A written submission by local MP Leah Gazan was sent to the United Nations' special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

  Canada

  Jul 19
  
• Indigenous leaders in B.C. call on government to change cannabis laws

  Leaders said Indigenous businesses are unfairly subjected to excessive taxation and onerous regulations in B.C.

  Cannabis

  Apr 20
  
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• Enshrining UN’s Indigenous rights vow is a work in progress: Lametti

  The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affirms the rights of Indigenous Peoples to self-determination, to their language, culture and traditional lands.

  Canada

  Apr 5
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• λugʷaləs becomes first baby in B.C. to have his Indigenous name on birth certificate

  λugʷaləs K’ala’ask Shaw has become the first child in British Columbia to have his Indigenous name registered and printed on his birth certificate.

  Perspectives

  Mar 29
• Ottawa pledges $43M for clean drinking water on Oneida Nation of the Thames

  To end a long-term drinking water advisory, Oneida Nation of the Thames will switch to Lake Huron as its water source, and have its existing piped distribution system upgraded.

  Canada

  Mar 23
• ‘We are still here:’ Indigenous Tunisians still fighting for rights 1,300 years after colonization

  It's been more than 1,300 years since the Arabs colonized Tunisia. Why are its Indigenous people, the Amazigh, still struggling for basic recognition?

  World

  Mar 21
• Bill Wilson on the fight for Indigenous rights 40 years after negotiating constitutional change

  The constitutional reform, enshrining Indigenous land and treaty rights, was born out of the First Ministers Conference in March 1983.

  Perspectives

  Mar 15
• ‘A dire state’: Squamish First Nation faces raw sewage leak into Capilano river

  Squamish First Nation said the raw sewage leak could've been happening for an extended period of time, which would result in concerning environmental impacts.

  Environment

  Mar 12
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• ‘Proper recognition’: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario Métis sign self-governance deal

  The deal builds on a 2019 accord that acknowledged the Métis right to self-government but stopped short of naming groups that would form those governments.

  Canada

  Feb 24
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• Swiss museum returns 2 artifacts to the Haudenosaunee confederacy

  The objects, a medicine mask and turtle rattle, had been in the possession of the Geneva Museum of Ethnography (MEG) for nearly 200 years.

  Canada

  Feb 19