This week’s edition includes human rights, housing, carbon pricing, fishing rights, and more.
IN THE NEWS
Human rights and specific claims were in the spotlight in BC
FNLC Calls on BC to Defer Amendments to Bill 45; Urges a Human Rights Approach to Encampment Legislation | UBCIC
Leq'á:mel First Nation and Government of Canada reach agreement to right historic wrong | Yahoo
Alberta news included child welfare and energy regulation
Treaty 8 chiefs sue Canada, Alberta over special benefits payments | APTN News
Opposition NDP, First Nation chief want public review of Alberta Energy Regulator | Global News
Ontario headlines featured carbon pricing, Treaty rights and fiduciary duties
Ontario First Nations leaders say federal government's carbon tax is discriminatory | CBC News
100 years of the Williams Treaties in Ontario | The Narwhal
SON asking Supreme Court to weigh in on Bruce Peninsula claim | Owen Sound Sun Times
Housing, human rights, and caribou topped headlines in the North
Poor Inuit housing 'result of colonialism': federal housing advocate | APTN News
Inuit organizations ask the feds to establish Indigenous human rights tribunal, ombudsman | APTN News
Nunavut land use plan needed to help save caribou herd: Okalik | APTN News
Fishing rights were back in east coast news
Mi'kmaq fishing case moving ahead this week in court | APTN News
Bill C-53 and MMIWG2S+ were front and centre in national news
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Calls on the Government of Canada to Immediately Withdraw Bill C-53 | Assembly of First Nations
Ottawa didn't verify disputed Métis communities covered by federal bill: official | Victoria Times Colonist
Liberal minister to testify after heated testimony from Metis, First Nations groups | The Star Phoenix
Canada begins consultations on alert system for missing Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people | Global News
In case you missed it, check out Kate Gunn’s recent blog post on the Saugeen decision
Indigenous Rights and Marine Spaces: Case Comment on Saugeen Decision | Kate Gunn | First Peoples Law LLP
FROM THE COURTS
The BC Court of Appeal weighed in on Councillors' fiduciary duties.
Webb v. Genaille, 2023 BCCA 443
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Housing is a human right and central to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Hugh Braker, First Nations Summit Political Executive
OFF THE RECORD
Voices strained and warry
From wailing
But together
We emerge
We emerge in beauty
- Jeremy Dutcher, Motewolonuwok (2023)