By Jorge Barrera and Mark Blackburn APTN National News OTTAWA–Canada discriminates against First Nation children by underfunding the on-reserve agencies charged with ensuring their safety, according to a long-awaited ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. According to the ruling, which will be...
By Janis Ramsay Barrie Advance Ian Taylor didn’t have much to say after losing a civil lawsuit Tuesday over Springwater Provincial Park fundraising dollars. Taylor had been president of the People for Parks Environment Initiative group — one of three citizens’ groups founded after the park was closed...
Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma presents a traditional cradleboard to the people of Paris during a march Dec. 12. The cradleboard represents future generations. -Indigenous Environmental Network photo By Sujata Dey Council of Canadians December 11, 2015 You’ve heard of off-Broadway...
Voices from Paris AWARE News Network Helen Szoke Oxfam International This deal offers a frayed life-line to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. Only the vague promise of a new future climate funding target has been made, while the deal does not force countries to cut emissions fast enoug...
Indigenous women from the North and South Americas gathered in Paris against false solutions and extractive industries – IEN photo IEN news release by Suzanne Dhaliwal Indigenous peoples from Canada, U.S. and the world were initially elated to hear that Canada’s Minister of Environment and Clim...
From Indigenous Environmental Network December 6 2015 An all-Indigenous flotilla of kayaks took to the waters of Paris today, followed by a press conference featuring Indigenous leaders from the Americas delivering strong messages: warnings of the worst consequences of climate change, and holistic so...
From WIPSM Friends of Grassy Narrows in Winnipeg: Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 22:03:03 -0600 Subject: Blockade anniversary 2002-2015 dec 2 From: judy.da…@gmail.com Gwawich, lynx clan (Roberta Keesick) writes: “I like how Grassy people are, I like how we still speak our language, and how our peo...
‘The burden of changing Canada’s direction on climate ahead of these crucial negotiations lands squarely on the shoulders of the Prime Minister,’ say #ClimateWelcome organizers by Deirdre Fulton Common Dreams Kicking off a new campaign aimed at freshly sworn-in Prime Minister Justin Trude...
Ground breaking case invokes Charter to protect First Nation community from toxic harm Today the Grassy Narrows First Nation is filing legal proceedings against Ontario asking the Divisional Court to overturn provincial plans for a decade of clearcut logging on Grassy Narrows’ homeland. This sm...
from Danny Beaton and friends Lake Simcoe was known as Waawaase’Aagaming or the Shining Lake to the Anishinaabe People who once lived in the area. This waterwalk is intended to re-establish the spiritual connection of our people to these waters and to remind of us our responsibility to maintain a goo...
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