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Carney’s ‘build big and build fast’ push is dividing Canada’s Indigenous

Some First Nations are challenging Carney’s resource-extraction plans to strengthen Canadian economy from US threats.
Yahoo

Why Canada is jailing more Indigenous people despite Trudeau's promises

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Never free: How Canada keeps Indigenous people locked up SASKATOON (Reuters) - Like a growing number of formerly incarcerated ...

Canada signs Aboriginal rights, fishing and marine management agreements with Musqueam

The federal government has released details of recent agreements with the Musqueam Indian Band recognizing Aboriginal title ...
The Conversation

Canada‑Ecuador free trade agreement threatens Indigenous rights and territories in the Amazon

PhD Candidate, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University, Ontario Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Queen's University, Ontario ...
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Building Canada Act a 'troubling threat' to Indigenous rights, says Amnesty International Canada

A global human rights organization has added to calls condemning federal legislation that many say will impact Indigenous rights in Canada. In a news release Tuesday, Amnesty International Canada said ...
David Suzuki Foundation

International tribunal to hear case of missing Indigenous children in Canada

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is preparing to examine the cases of missing and murdered Indigenous children and unmarked ...
Grist

In Canada, Indigenous advocates argue that mining companies violate the rights of nature

In Western legal systems, arguments against pollution or the destruction of the environment tend to focus exclusively on people: It’s wrong to contaminate a river, for example, because certain humans ...
The New York Times

Gas Could Mean Billions for Indigenous People in Canada. Some Fear a Cost.

New export terminals along the rugged Pacific coastline have reignited a generations-old debate over identity and environmental stewardship. Gas flare as seen from Kitamaat, British Columbia. Gas ...
The Conversation

As Canada’s economy faces serious challenges, the Indigenous economy offers solutions

Mylon Ollila is a Senior Strategist for the First Nations Financial Management Board. Hugo Asselin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...
insider.si.edu

Visions of the heart : issues involving Aboriginal peoples in Canada / edited by David Long and Olive Patricia Dickason

NMAI copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment. Indigenous eco-technological knowings meet university satellite campus teachings on the Rez / Peter Cole -- All our relations: aboriginal ...
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Plants, people, and places the roles of ethnobotany and ethnoecology in indigenous peoples' land rights in Canada and beyond edited by Nancy J. Turner

Introduction : making a place for indigenous botanical knowledge and environmental values in land-use planning and decision making / Nancy J. Turner, Pamela Spalding, and Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa) -- ...
Mongabay

Indigenous communities make clean energy drive work for, not against, them

Indigenous peoples have been steadily warning about the impacts of renewable energy development on their lands and communities, but some see a way to harness this trend for the positive. Experts say ...