This week’s edition includes community safety, education, major energy projects, environmental stewardship and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news included policing, Jordan’s Principle and Indigenous identity
AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak and Regional Chief Terry Teegee Condemn Unnecessary Use of Force Against First Nations Woman | Assembly of First Nations
Tribunal orders Canada to clean up Jordan's Principle backlog | APTN News
Could 'identity shifting and pretendianism' be potential fraud? | APTN News
Electoral boundaries were the top story in Nova Scotia
Cape Breton MP loses court challenge to stop changes to electoral boundary | CBC News
Aboriginal title continued to make headlines in New Brunswick
New Brunswick asks First Nations to pause legal fight | APTN News
In Ontario, land claims, environmental concerns and energy projects made headlines
First Nations take City of Kenora, Government of Canada to court over Anicinabe Park lands | CBC News
Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation votes to move forward with nuclear waste storage site process | CBC News
Taykwa Tagamou Nation Files Claim Against Ontario and Newmont to Protect Traditional Lands | Net News Ledger
Ontario Power Generation and Fort William First Nation at odds over Kakabeka Falls redevelopment | CBC News
News in the prairies featured child welfare and funding to support Indigenous women
Manitoba unveils $20M strategy to 'empower and protect' Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit people | CBC News
Advocate in Alberta says majority of kids dying in care are Indigenous | APTN News
Self-government, the Oath of Allegiance, poverty rates and water legislation topped headlines in the North
Tłegǫ́hłı̨ Got’įnę in Norman Wells, N.W.T. nears self-government | Eye on the Arctic
Dawson City council refuses to pledge allegiance to the King | APTN News
Nunavut’s child poverty rate is the highest in Canada, new report says | Eye on the Arctic
Idlout hopes First Nations will be heard on federal water legislation | Nunatsiaq News
BC headlines featured economic development, duty to consult, major energy projects and environmental stewardship
Nisga'a Nation guides world's first mining royalty company that's majority Indigenous-owned | CBC News
On BC’s North Coast, First Nations Are Building a New Economy | The Tyee
PRGT pipeline decision looms large for B.C.’s new environment minister | The Narwhal
First Nation considers legal options as B.C. approves mining permit 'without consent' | MSN News
W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs fight to protect Georgia Strait herring | The Narwhal
FROM THE COURTS
Last week, the Federal Court weighed in on federal elections boundaries in Nova Scotia.
Eskasoni First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), 2024 FC 1856
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Our lands and rights should not be an afterthought.”
- Deputy Chief Derek Archibald, Taykwa Tagamou Nation
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
The traces of our lives and the time we lived in may be no more than a few specks of dust compared to the life of the vast universe. And though change happens slowly--very, very slowly--I don't want to abandon my hope that it changes for the better."
- Hwang Sok-yong, Mater 2-10 (2023)
