Pipeline or pipedream? Questions remain as BC election draws near

By Cara McKenna

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, now approved by Canada and BC, has Indigenous leaders, local governments and environmentalists threatening to fight the project to the bitter end.

Kinder Morgan’s $6.8 billion expansion of the pipeline will nearly … Read More

Health at the heart of renewed accord

A renewed Vancouver Island partnership accord – focused on better health services and outcomes for First Nations families – was signed in December.

Chiefs, elders and community members from nations joined representatives from First Nations Health Authority (FNHA), Island Health … Read More

What to do with all that money?

When the Sentinel first decided to do a series about personal finance, we didn’t want to simply have articles about bank and credit unionservices or well-used words about things like investing and spending money. Then Joe Allen of Nanaimo offered … Read More

Year-end AGM for NmTC

There was work and pleasure when people travelled from around the coast to attend the Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council workshops, annual general meeting and banquet in early December in Richmond.

First, directors and other members from the eleven member First … Read More

Finding a new way forward

Acknowledging harms. Respect. Forgiveness. Opportunity.

Those were just some of the ways that business students from across British Columbia defined reconciliation in a video that was screened during a ‘Reconciliation as a Call to Action’ panel at the Port Theatre … Read More

Oil spills… seems like not ‘If’ but ‘When’

By Mark Kiemele

Vancouver has become one of the world’s leading maritime hubs, shipping mineral and agricultural resources from BC, Alberta and the Prairie provinces to world markets.

Some say this is an economic feather in BC’s hat. Others say … Read More

Council of elders guiding NmTC

Elders will be sharing their wisdom and advice with Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council (NmTC) leaders in the coming year.

Five members of the new council of Coast Salish elders were elected for year-long terms and introduced to directors at the … Read More

‘BC Bud’ trademarked says Homalco chief

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Chief MaryAnn Enevoldsen talked about the potential of the … Read More

Water and hydro development eyed by Tla’amin

A proposed hydroelectric development that could increase Tla’amin Nation’s water supply, among other benefits, is one step closer to being built.

The nation is moving forward with a full feasibility study for the project that will involve researching fish habitats … Read More

Hanuse new rep for the BCAFN

Klahoose may be a small community, but it now has two representatives at the table of the BC Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN).

Johnny Hanuse, 25, was voted in as BCAFN’s male youth council representative in late October. He joins … Read More