By Bruce McIvor and Carlie Kane
This week’s edition includes environmental rights, place names, climate resilience, harvesting rights and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news included access to information, safe drinking water, climate resilience, economic development and jurisdiction
The IAA went too far | CBA/ABC National
Delorme hopes to bridge the gap between government and witnesses for residential school records | Windspeaker
A brief timeline of the First Nations drinking-water crisis | TVO Today
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Formally Launches its Transformative National Climate Strategy | Assembly of First Nations
Senate Gives First Nations Gaming Bill a Second Reading | Casino Reports
First Nations climate strategy rooted in traditions | Pentiction Herald
Nunavut news featured fishing rights
Federal Court in Iqaluit to hear lawsuit over fishing license decision | Eye on the Arctic
Indigenous identity, access to health care and consultation were front and centre on the east coast
'It's not working': Calls for better mental health support for N.S. First Nations communities | Global News
Allegations of Indigenous identity fraud could affect lawsuit by Native Council by Nova Scotia | APTN News
NB Update #1: Wolastoqey chiefs dispute govt claims on consultations & news and info | NB Media Co-Op
Burial sites and place names topped Manitoba news
First Nations leaders ask for Brandon campground to be expropriated | Prince Albert Daily Herald
First Nations leaders bristle at potential use of Shreyer in road name | Pentiction Herald
Human rights returned to Saskatchewan headlines
Pronoun bill opponents decry lack of consultation | Meadowlake Now
Systemic racism and harvesting rights were in the spotlight in Alberta news
Parks Canada signs agreement with First Nations, opens door to harvesting in Jasper | Calgary Herald
Alberta to address anti-Indigenous racism in provincial healthcare system | Windspeaker
BC news included pipelines, mines, owls and environmental rights
B.C. First Nations ask B.C. to review Copper Mountain mine extension | Vancouver Sun
Former B.C. mining exec fined $30K for environmental violations - but First Nation says damage costs far more | CBC News
Commission of CER recommends approval of Northeast B.C. Connector Project | Energetic City
UBCIC Calls on Canada and the Province to Take First Nations Lead in Northern Spotted Owl Protection | UBCIC
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
When they came to our community, we welcomed them with open arms and we taught them our culture, our language, our stories, our heritage. . . When we started to ask questions on ‘who are you? How are you related It to people in Odanak, how are you related to the Abenaki Nation?’ They had no answers.
- Jacques Watso, councillor for Odanak Band
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
We go to the schools, and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.
- Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (2017)