This week’s edition includes education funding, First Nations-led energy development, mining, economic development and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news featured education funding litigation, exclusion of First Nations from policy development, and Bill C-5
First Nation and Canada begin legal battle over ‘grossly underfunded’ on-reserve schools | CBC News
AFN: Canada climate strategy being developed 'behind closed doors' | CTV News
Pressure on Indigenous communities to allow mining will increase | APTN News
In New Brunswick, First Nations-led energy development and concerns regarding a new provincial mining framework made headlines
Mi’kmaq ‘no longer mere spectators’ as Indigenous investment in energy projects grows | CBC News
No mention of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in new minerals strategy framework | NB Media Co-op
An Aboriginal title claim was the top story in Quebec
Kitigan Zibi files lawsuit over lands in western Quebec | APTN News
Essential services, a court decision on legal fees, and a new mining approval process made the news in Ontario
Auditor general's findings no surprise to London-area Indigenous leaders | CBC News
Treaty case didn't warrant $510M bill from lawyers says judge | APTN News
Northwestern Ontario lithium project sparks mixed reactions over new provincial process | CBC News
Chief says mines process is 'not partnership, it's pressure' | TBNewsWatch.com
Top stories in the Prairies included lawsuits and environmental stewardship
Manitoba Hydro, governments have made billions through activity on ancestral Dakota lands: lawsuit | CBC News
Clear Lake’s health, welfare should be the first priority | Brandon Sun
Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation takes gov’t to court over uranium project | battlefordsNOW
In the Yukon, headlines included land protection and the territorial election
Outcry from Gwich'in leaders over potential oil and gas drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | CBC News
What a First Nation and community leaders want from the next government | APTN News
The Cowichan Tribes decision, economic development, and land rights continues to top the news in BC
Quw’utsun Nation calls politicians' comments on title ruling 'misleading,' 'inflammatory' | CBC News
First Nations land title ruling prompts disinformation, captures public interest as gov't appeals | CityNews
First Nation buying 2 B.C. casinos, including Richmond's River Rock | CBC News
Does Indigenous Title hinder access to Crown land in B.C.? | The Narwhal
HOT OFF THE PRESS
Read Patricia Lawrence’s new blog post on the recently proposed Bill S-2, the Indian Act’s second-generation cut-off rule, and what the proposed federal legislation would mean for First Nation individuals and families.
Bill S-2 and the Second-Generation Cut-Off
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Seeing on social media, a town 20 minutes away saying, 'We have extended hours for our splash pad,' meanwhile, 20 minutes away we don't even have drinking water, that tells you something is really wrong with the system.
- Grand Chief Joel Abram, Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
Now the long freight of autumn goes smoking out of the land.
My possibles are all packed up, but still I do not leave.
I am happy enough here, where Dakota drifts wild in the universe,
Where the prairie is starting to shake in the surf of the winter dark.
- Thomas McGrath, "Beyond the Red River" (n.d.)
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