Tla’amin readies for Big Day

By Cara McKenna

Weeks before treaty effective date at Tla’amin First Nation, the mood in the community is electric.

Most staff is holed up in offices or meetings, figuring out the final details before April 9.

Others are hard at … Read More

Coast Salish just say ‘NO’ to Salish Sea oil transport

The Coast Salish nation unanimously agreed last summer to work together to address the transport of crude oil shipments, by rail and sea, through their territories.

“We live in a pollution-based economy, and for hundreds of years there have been … Read More

Stern critic of LNG deal

One of the sternest critics of the Malahat/Steelhead LNG project is Adam Olsen, a member of Tsartlip First Nation and the interim-leader of the BC Green Party.

“I grew up fishing next Bamberton and on the docks in Brentwood and … Read More

Tsawwassen says ‘NO’ to LNG

‘A well informed choice’ says Chief

Members of the Tsawwassen Nation have voted down plans to build a liquefied natural gas export facility in their lands.

Leaders said in November that they would let the nation’s members decide whether or … Read More

Tsleil-Waututh ‘confident’ on stopping pipeline plan

A legal expert says a number of recent events could affect whether Tsleil-Waututh Nation will be successful in halting National Energy Board’s review of a proposed pipeline expansion project in its territory.

Kinder Morgan’s $5.4 billion plan would nearly triple … Read More

Coast Salish in Paris

While the massive COP21 UN climate change conference was happening in Paris, France, last month, Indigenous people from around the world were having their own gathering in a chateau north of the city.

Reuben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s anti-pipeline … Read More

The federal election was easy, but now the hard work begins

More than 100 days after Canada’s election and the honeymoon period for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau still seems to be continuing.

That is probably because expectations are so high in First Nation communities as well as the rest of the … Read More

Climate CHANGES…can we?

In this feature, we are talking about the challenges and opportunities that lay before us all in 2016. Some of our nations are leading the way in finding non-fossil fuel energy sources. Some have said ‘No’ to LNG, others … Read More

No, Yes, Maybe to LNG

by Mark Kiemele

Why Caroline Harry was elected as Malahat Nation’s first female chief in November, she expected to live up to her campaign promise of open and transparent leadership and restoring connections with other First Nations on the Saanich Pennisula.

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Homalco woman involved in missing women’s talks

By Cara McKenna

The federal government has heard from Homalco member and women’s advocate Fay Blaney as it designs its inquiry into Canada’s crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett met … Read More