Will Fracking Be The Catalyst?
In the last couple of weeks, there has been a lot in the news regarding Canada’s First Nations. The UN Special Rapporteur finished his tour and quite correctly stated that…
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Is Elsipogtog the spark that will light the fracking fire?
A Vancouver protest in sympathy with the Elsipogtog First Nation (Damien Gillis) Yesterday, Canadian Ministers were attending the World Energy Congress, delivering keynote speeches. BC Minister of Natural gas non-disclosure,…
Police Violence Against #IdleNoMore
Watch how the media portrays the standoff between First Nations protesters, and the RCMP in New Brunswick. They talk about the “violent protest”. Was the protest violent until the RCMP…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Pat Atkinson writes that governments at all levels should be setting up realistic fiscal plans to deal with a large group of retiring…
RCMP clash with Mi’kmaq fracking protestors: Who provoked whom?
photo: Jen Choi/CBC They may call themselves the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society, but from all indications, this group of indigenous peoples was leading a peaceful protest against fracking in their territory…
Fontaine And Farber On First Nations Genocide
Our conviction is that Canadian policy over more than 100 years can be defined as a genocide of First Nations under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Read it all if…
CHRC statement on meeting with UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya
Canadian Human Rights Commission statement on meeting with James Anaya, the visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The post CHRC statement on meeting with UN…
Idle No More Global Day of Action October 7 2013
by: Idle No More | Press Release Idle No More protest on Parliament Hill. Dec 21, 2012. (Photo: Obert Madondo) October 7, 2013-Ottawa, Canada: Today marks the global day of…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Alex Himelfarb and Jordan Himelfarb comment on Canada’s dangerously distorted conversation about public revenue and the purposes it can serve: As we argue…
First Nations energy company floats oil refinery near Prince Rupert
Eagle Spirit Energy’s Calvin Helin speaking the Vancouver Board of Trade A new energy company with partial aboriginal ownership is floating the idea of an oil refinery at Grassy Point,…
First Nation bans pipelines for BC LNG
While much has been made of partnerships between First Nations and companies proposing to build natural gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals on BC’s coast, the position being…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jordon Cooper writes about the need to understand poverty in order to discuss and address it as a matter of public policy.…
First Nation upset CNRL is draining lake to contain Alberta bitumen leak
photo: Canadian Natural Resources Limited Read this Sept. 28 story from CBC on the ongoing Alberta bitumen leak crisis near Cold Lake. The Common Sense Canadian has been following the…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matt Taibbi discusses how public pension funds are being looted for the benefit of a few well-connected banksters: Hedge funds have good…
New column day
Here, on Brad Wall’s choice to bring the Southern Strategy north with a dog-whistle appeal to prejudice against First Nations. For further reading…– Rick Perlstein puts the Southern Strategy (and…
Mining company steps back from Sacred Headwaters standoff
A group of Tahltans and their supporters peacefully occupied Fortune’s drill in early September Fortune Minerals announced Monday it will voluntarily stand down from an escalating conflict with the local…
Arrests on horizon in First Nation’s Sacred Headwaters mine protest
Tahltan elders and supporters in the Sacred Headwaters (SkeenaWatershed.com) Read this Sept. 20 story from the Vancouver Observer on the standoff over a proposed open-pit coal mine in BC’s Sacred…
Rafe: Harper won’t succeed in bribing First Nations over pipelines
Stephen Harper meets with National AFN Chief Shawn Atleo in 2011 (Reuters) So Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of his cabinet have been meeting with BC’s First Nations chiefs…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Armine Yalnizyan points out that Canada has followed the global pattern in which income growth has disproportionately been directed toward the few people…
Tahltan’s Sacred Headwaters defence has deep roots
The Sacred Headwaters (photo: Carr Clifton/ILCP) Few places on our planet have been unaffected by humans. Satellite images taken from hundreds of kilometres above Earth reveal a world irrevocably changed…