This week’s edition includes environmental protection, health care, justice reform, human rights and more.
IN THE NEWS
National headlines highlighted access to justice, human rights and a class action lawsuit
Access to legal services for Indigenous Peoples vital says ALST | APTN News
Human rights at stake without landfill search: U.N. committee | APTN News
Class action lawsuit seeks justice for those suffering from intergenerational trauma by residential schools | CTV News
The elver fishery was back in the news in the East Coast
For traditional Mi'kmaw adult eel fishers, it's not about the money | CBC News
Elvers fishery closure ignores needs of Mi'kmaw say harvesters | APTN News
Environmental rights and health care were front and centre in Ontario
Chalk River: Indigenous resistance mounts to nuclear waste dump near Ottawa River | CTV News
Northwestern Ontario First Nations Chiefs Unite Against Nuclear Waste Proposal | NetNewsLedger
'Our reputation has been harmed': Gen7 Fuel alleges harassment by KPMG - Sault Ste. Marie News | Sootoday
Manitoba news featured health care, policing and justice reform
Nurse shortage prompts state of emergency in Pimicikamak Cree Nation | CBC News
Brokenhead bringing in First Nations police to replace RCMP | Winnipeg Sun
Manitoba bail reform panned by First Nations leader, justice advocate | Winnipeg Sun
Consultation and justice reform were the top stories in Saskatchewan
First Nations leaders want voice in recommended changes to parole and corrections after stabbing massacre | LarongeNOW
FSIN raises concerns about lack of consultation as Sask. announces work on irrigation project | CBC News
Alberta news included environmental protection, remediation, and child and family services
First Nations want federal government to class oilsands tailings component as toxin | Globalnews.ca
Chiefs, province publicly call out feds for taking back unspent oil and gas clean-up dollars | Windspeaker
‘Our Children are not for sale’: Treaty 8 chiefs | APTN News
Mining, stewardship, LNG and transnational environmental impacts were the top stories in BC
Canada, U.S. launch inquiry into Elk Valley mine pollution | The Narwhal
Province seeks input on plan to protect Clayoquot Sound | Victoria Times Colonist
Environment and Land Use Act Orders Regarding Mining Provide Necessary Space to Provide Predictability in the Mining Sector | British Columbia Assembly of First Nations
B.C.’s big bet on LNG: 5 projects you need to know | The Narwhal
Health care and wildfire response were in the spotlight in the North
Vuntut Gwitchin hope health authority will improve health care | APTN News
Dene Nation again calls for NWT wildfire public inquiry | Cabin Radio
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Indigenous people as rights-holders, rather than recipients of Canadian largesse and tolerance, still makes some people uncomfortable...
- Michelle Cyca
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance.
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body (2020)