This week’s edition includes stewardship, policing, provincial elections, mining, and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news included child welfare reform, stewardship, policing and residential school legacies
International tribunal to investigate missing children, unmarked graves associated with residential schools | CBC News
Child welfare reform is in the hands of the AFN after deal voted down, minister says | CTV News
Families call for inquiry into police at event on Parliament Hill | APTN News
Parks Canada unveils new national Indigenous Stewardship Policy | CBC News
The push to criminalize residential school denialism in Canada | Global News
Electoral boundaries and an environmental assessment topped the news in the North
Vuntut Gwitchin riding borders should remain the same says commission | APTN News
GNWT, Indigenous governments intervene over Imperial assessment | Cabin Radio
Mining and transborder conservation made headlines in BC
Province’s approval of gravel pit mine violates DRIPA, says PIB expert: ‘It’s shocking that they issued a permit’ | Indiginews
Syilx Okanagan Nation says salmon run at risk after neighbouring nation pulls funds | CBC News
Alberta news included environmental contamination, stewardship, child welfare and Indigenous policing
Commons committee plans to examine contamination at Fort Chipewyan, Alta., dock | CBC News
Indigenous stewardship holds the key to wildfire prevention in national parks, Jasper hearings told | CBC News
Blood Tribe welcomes rejection of settlement | Lethbridge Herald
Alberta Premier, AFN National Chief, call on federal government to advance First Nations policing | Wetaskiwin News
The provincial election was the top story in Saskatchewan
Sask. Indigenous leaders want members to vote; others say they shouldn't in colonial systems | CBC News
Jordan’s Principle funding returned to Manitoba headlines
'Funding crisis' for Jordan's Principle jeopardizes Manitoba First Nations children's lives: chief | CBC News
Ontario news highlighted protection of heritage resources and an Indigenous-owned energy project
Red Rock Indian Band calls out feds after discovery of ancestral remains in Nipigon, Ont. | CBC News
This 1,800-km transmission line brings clean, reliable power to 24 remote First Nations — who also own most of it | The Narwhal
Mining and federal water legislation were front and centre in Quebec
Court says Quebec failed its duty to consult Mitchikanibikok Inik First Nation over mining claims | CBC News
Kahnawake Council slams federal water bill | Hamilton Spectator
UNDRIP and provincial election results made headlines on the East coast
Wolastoqey chief ‘ecstatic’ with Liberal win in New Brunswick | APTN News
'For the good of all Indigenous people': N.L. government discussing implementing United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | Indigenous Watchdog
FROM THE COURTS
Last week, the Federal Courts issued a decision on an elections matter
Hudson v. Peguis First Nation 2024 FC 1685
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Why do First Nations have to prove their rights to a settler nation?
- Grand Chief Cody Diabo, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
Tomorrow is a line that cuts endlessly through the forest.
- Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces (2023)
