After elections comes training

By Edith Moore, NmTC Communications Liaison

On February 8-9, through the snowstorm, a brilliant workshop was delivered on post-election leadership training by the Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council team, along with Laara Mixon of Carden Consulting. Thank you to the Songhees … Read More

From reconciliation to canoes, Canada’s 150th is ‘celebrated’

The City of Victoria is calling 2017 ‘A year of reconciliation’ as its guide to celebrations for Canada’s 150th anniversary.

Meanwhile, the City of Vancouver has named its festivities ‘Canada 150+’ to acknowledge pre-colonial history and will include three First … Read More

Billows’ words make connections

By Cara McKenna

Dozens of people sat in attentive silence as Molly Billows read a spoken word poem written the day before last year’s U.S. election.

“We have always prepared our children to live in a world that is already … Read More

Harbour partnership draws a full house

It was standing room only when people from Stz’uminus First Nation and Ladysmith gathered to talk about the future of the town’s waterfront on Feb 1.

The partnership between the First Nation and the town was on display at the … Read More

Signs of the times

Those ‘Stops of Interest’ signs one sees while driving along BC’s highways have taken on new meanings. That’s thanks to Joanne Hammond. She runs Pacific Heritage, a research and consulting company specializing in anthropology and archeology. But let’s let her … Read More

Court actions loom for pipeline project

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal may have received the thumbs-up from Canada and BC, but opponents are still hoping a court decision might stop the $6.8 billion project in its tracks.

By an 8-2 vote on Feb. 22, Vancouver … Read More

‘How did we live together before?’

By Cara McKenna

The concept of reconciliation is often thought of as improving relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. But it also means fixing things between First Nations.

That was the message from Wendy Grant-John when she told the annual … Read More

Tla’amin jobs, support for new shellfish plant

A land-based shellfish hatchery on the Sunshine Coast has received the thumbs-up from Tla’amin First Nation.

Workers from Tla’amin have been employed at the Hummingbird Cove hatchery and research station near Saltery Bay over the past two years. And the … Read More

Park plan rejected, but options exist

A request from Snaw-naw-as First Nation leaders to have part of their unceded territory turned into a national park has been rejected by the land’s legal owners.

The chief and council had requested to have a section of Nanoose Bay … Read More

Almost $50 million coming to Snuneymuxw

Snuneymuxw First Nation is awaiting the arrival of nearly $50 million from Canada later this year.

Snuneymuxw has created the Thlap’qwum Community Settlement Trust to administer funds that will come from 98.1% of Snuneymuxw votes saying ‘Yes’ to the largest … Read More