indigenous rights

The Northern Gateway Pipeline: What We Can Learn from the 1970s

October 13, 2012
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Thirty-five years later, the practical conclusions of Justice Thomas Berger’s Mackenzie Valley Pipeline inquiry are increasingly relevant to current discussions regarding Enbridge’s $5.5 billion proposal to build its 1,177 km Northern Gateway Pipeline from northern Alberta to Kitimat on the northwest coast of British Columbia.  Berger’s emphasis on the importance of mitigating both social and [...]

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Innovative Eco-Housing Design in Canada’s High Arctic

November 12, 2011

Canada’s newest Territory, Nunavut has some of the most serious housing issues in Canada. Consider these statistics compiled by the Nunavut Housing Corporation (NHC): public housing makes up the majority of housing occupied by Nunavummiut; almost 50 per cent of households are overcrowded and/or in need of major repair. If more housing were made available, [...]

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Re-Awakening in the Spirit of Reconciliation: Wakefield hosts grassroots initiative to begin talking about the legacy of Indian Residential Schools

January 28, 2011

Many people joined together in a circle of reconciliation at Wakefield’s United Church on Sunday January 24 to support and listen to the stories of residential school survivors from Kitigan Zibi Algonquin First Nation.  The event, sponsored by Wakefield’s United Church Minister, Gisele Gilfillan, and members of the local Baha’i community, was an inspiring example [...]

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Governments still refuse to implement landmark Algonquin of Barriere Lake Trilaterial Agreement

December 17, 2010

On Monday December 13, 2010, New Democrat Charlie Angus (Timmins – James Bay) joined representatives from the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake to call  on Stephen Harper’s federal government to respect signed commitments to help rebuild the marginalised Indigenous community and restore its traditional democratic process for selecting leadership. The federal government’s recent decision to [...]

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Canada no longer the international black-sheep on Indigenous rights

November 16, 2010

After three years, on Friday, November 12, 2010, Canada finally joined the other 146 nations in supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.  Now only one country stands officially in opposition to the declaration – the United States. “We understand and respect the importance of this United Nations Declaration to Indigenous [...]

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