This week’s edition includes the five-year anniversary of the MMIWG2S+ final report, treaty rights, fishing, environmental restoration and more.
IN THE NEWS
National headlines featured clean drinking water, MMIWG2S+, economic reconciliation and confidentiality agreements
Conservatives stall Indigenous clean water law, minister says | National Observer
5 years after MMIWG inquiry's final report, former commissioners still waiting for progress | CBC News
Economic Reconciliation Requires First Nations to be Equal Partners, Says AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak | Assembly of First Nations
First Nations slam Ottawa over confidentiality agreements | The Star
The Métis Nation of Ontario, language revitalization, treaty rights and the duty to consult were front and centre in Ontario
Robinson Huron Treaty chiefs denounce Métis Nation of Ontario | SooToday
Ontario legislator makes history at Queen's Park with speech, questions in Oji-Cree | CBC News
Moving nuclear waste through traditional territories could face opposition, Ontario First Nation says | CBC News
Matachewan First Nation reaches settlement on treaty land entitlement claim | Northern News
Environmental pollution litigation returned to Manitoba headlines
Two more First Nations sue three levels of government for treating Red, Assiniboine rivers ‘as part of the sewage system’ | Winnipeg Free Press
Saskatchewan stories included community safety and the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan
Métis Nation touring proposed treaty across Sask. this summer | CBC News
RCMP, FSIN sign agreement to improve communication, safety in Sask. First Nations | CBC News
Treaty rights and land defense were back in the news in Alberta
Blood Tribe can't sue Ottawa for Treaty violation due to provincial time limitations | Alberta Native News
‘An uprising in the making’: 'Alberta' chiefs say oil company’s forceful approach is an attack on treaty rights | IndigiNews
British Columbia headlines highlighted environmental restoration and land stewardship
This small nation is taking big steps for the B.C Great Bear Rainforest | APTN News
In W̱SÁNEĆ territories, Matriarchs raise funds to buy back their unceded lands | IndigiNews
In the North, fisheries and the seal harvest were the top stories
Seal hunt advocate claims vindication, as Senate committee urges help for industry | CBC News
Inuit seek 'fisheries reconciliation' with Canada after court decision | APTN News
In case you missed it, check out Kate Gunn's case comment on the recent Supreme Court of Canada Shot Both Sides v. Canada decision
Rights & Remedies at the SCC: Case Comment on Shot Both Sides v Canada | First Peoples Law | Kate Gunn
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FROM THE COURTS
The Federal Court of Appeal weighed in on the Crown's obligations related to reserve lands
Saulteaux First Nation v. Canada (Crown-Indigenous Relations), 2024 FCA 100 | CanLII
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Everyone that's listening: we need to revitalize our First Nations languages, teach your children to speak the First Nations language and to be proud of it."
- MPP Sol Mamakwa
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
You know that to love is both to swim and to drown. You know to love is to be a whole, partial, a joint, a fracture, a heart, a bone. It is to bleed and heal. It is to be in the world, honest."
- Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water (2021)
