The North-West Is Our Mother
2019
Jean Teillet
Harper Collins
Review by Kimball Cariou
The development of nations often takes millennia, or at least centuries, a complicated process of forging a common language, culture, history and [...]
The Canadian economy is slowing during the COVID-19 outbreak, and global energy prices keep falling, but both federal and provincial governments continue to support fossil fuel extraction and export projects.
One organization strongly opposed to [...]
The second-largest Indigenous nation in New Brunswick is suing the provincial government for depriving it of a treaty right to harvest timber.
The Wolastoqey Nation, which occupies the watershed of the Wolastoq (Saint John) River in western New [...]
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
(2013)
Author: James Daschuk
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Review by Kimball Cariou
What economic system extends its reach across entire [...]
On February 11, in support of Wet'suwet'en, around 1,000 people surrounded the British Columbia legislature building in Victoria, on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish Lekwungen nation. This shutdown of the legislative session was in [...]
By Ryan Abbott
Despite having some of the largest energy reserves in the world, despite an almost universal support for pipeline projects among its major political parties, and despite a bloated lobby of energy executives who dictate its domestic [...]
By Caleb Thompson
On Friday, February 14, dozens of activists gathered at Fredericton’s city hall in support of the Wet’suwet’en people, whose land is being invaded and stolen. Activists then marched to Westmorland Street Bridge where they [...]
PV Vancouver Bureau
The courts and both the federal and provincial governments continue to back the drive by energy corporations to expand the extraction and export of fossil fuels in British Columbia, but resistance is also rising. Over a [...]
(PV Staff, with files from Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust)
Representatives of Indigenous communities fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project (TMX) in the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) gathered on December 16, the day before [...]
On December 31, the BC Supreme Court ruled in favour of Coastal GasLink (CGL), which has never obtained consent from the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs to work on un-surrendered traditional Indigenous territories in the north-central part of the [...]