The Gift of Treaties
Winnipeg, Jan. 21, 2014: Niigaan James Sinclair, speaking at the “Gift of Treaties” teach-in organized by Idle No More Manitoba. Photo: Paul S. Graham A standard dictionary definition of the…
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Canadian Woman Freezes To Death
I wonder if talk radio will be buzzing about how Manitobans let a young woman freeze to death rather than stop and see why she was trying to flag them…
Thomas Berger leads watershed lawsuit v. Yukon development plan
Video by Damien Gillis; story by Dene Moore, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – A coalition of First Nations and conservation groups is suing the Yukon government over its decision to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Cassidy offers ten options to reduce income inequality. And Andrew Coyne concurs with the first and most important suggestion that income supports…
Chief sees major salmon farm expansion on horizon – issues urgent plea to “lock arms”
The chief of a coastal First Nation issued an urgent plea via youtube yesterday for public support in blocking plans for a major expansion of open-net pen salmon farms in…
Athabasca Chipewyan Nation pulls out of govt Oil Sands program
ACFN Chief Allan Adam on tour recently with Neil Young (Canadian Press) FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – The First Nation that was the main focus of Neil Young’s recent concert tour…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne calls out Stephen Harper’s hypocrisy in paying lip service to the problems with the use of disposable temporary foreign labour while…
First Nations and the Development of our Energy Resources: Some Principles
New Principles for Energy Industry This post touches on the duty to consult, the impact of recent court decisions on the cumulative effect of energy resource development on claims of…
BC Is Actually “Missing” More Than 94,000 Jobs #SpinAlert
It’s not unusual to see unemployment rates of around 6-8% these days. But if you have always had the feeling that more than one in sixteen people is unemployed, you’re…
Neil Young and the Message That Must Be Heard
Well I guess Big Oil and its rented pimps in the Harper regime must be getting desperate eh?Neil Young is just too popular. They just can't stop him. Or silence…
Part 1 #OilConVoid – Neil Young Hints At Unspeakable Canadian Civil War
I’m starting a short series of 3 blog posts today deliberately with the top climate change story in Canada. There are huge stories also in the RoboCon election fraud scandal,…
Neil Young amps up national oil sands debate
Neil Young at a benefit concert in Toronto on Sunday (Mark Blinch/AP) When Neil Young first wandered into Canadian energy politics last year, comparing Fort McMurray to Hiroshima following a…
Neil Young Beats Up Stephen Harper. Again.
Uh oh. It looks as if the slugging match between Neil Young and the Con regime isn't going to last very long.Not with King Harper already lying on his back.…
Canadian Rocker Neil Young Blasts Stephen Harper, Alberta Tar Sands
Canadian rock legend Neil Young has blasted the Harper government for “trading integrity” in its single-minded appetite for Alberta tar sands dollars. The post Canadian Rocker Neil Young Blasts Stephen…
Neil Young: A Canadian Legend Blasts the Con Regime
To see him standing up for a small First Nation that is fighting a giant foreign oil company is so inspiring.An example to us all.To hear him denounce Stephen Harper…
Countering Colonization (and other great books)
So University of California Press has just made 700 of its books available for online reading (to read on a tablet you have to copy paste into some other program…
Lubicon Lake Nation appeals injunction over oil fracking blockade
Photo: Lubicon Lake Nation CALGARY – A First Nation is appealing a court injunction against a blockade of an energy company’s drilling site in northern Alberta. The Lubicon Lake Nation…
A Key Union Priority for 2014
Naomi Klein urges unions to join climate change fight Many groups are calling for significant and sufficient action to address climate change, which is fantastic. But unions have not been…
Alberta faces onslaught of oilsands lawsuits
ACFN Chief Allan Adam outside an Alberta court in 2012, challenging Shell’s Jackpine development by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press EDMONTON – Simmering disputes over the oilsands between Alberta aboriginals…
Of Just Societies and Aboriginal Affairs
Many years ago, when I was but a small child, Pierre Trudeau spoke of a “Just Society”. It is a noble, if somewhat lofty and abstract goal. The Just Society…