This week’s edition includes gender discrimination, healthcare, land back, policing, sovereignty and more.
IN THE NEWS
National headlines featured residential school records, gender discrimination, wildfires and pipelines
Senate report calls for Canada to compel Catholic entities to release residential school records | CBC News
After promise to end subsidies, feds loan Coastal GasLink up to $200 million | National Observer*
Feds says 22 First Nations are currently impacted by wildfires and 7 have evacuated | APTN News
TC Energy nears sale of pipeline to Indigenous groups | Financial Post
CBC interviewed First Peoples Law’s Patricia Lawrence for a piece about gender discrimination in the Indian Act
Court battle against federal government resumes due to Bill C-38's slow passage | CBC News
East coast news covered a title claim and consultation on a green energy project
8 Mi'kmaw communities take N.B. to court over title claim | CBC News
J.D. Irving wind farm worries some, company promises more consultation | CBC News
Burial site searches, land back, healthcare and governance made headlines in Manitoba
Federal funding cut for residential school searches 'disheartening' and 'disrespectful': Manitoba chiefs | CBC News
Province and MMF sign MOU to give Ste. Madeleine land back | APTN News
Nursing shortage at Manitoba First Nations unacceptable, dangerous, leaders say | Global News
Northern Manitoba community evacuated 20 years ago now fighting for First Nation status | CBC News
Saskatchewan stories included safe drinking water, economic development, the duty to consult and Indigenous policing
Drinking water advisory on Star Blanket Cree Nation lifted after 17 years | CBC News
Sask. First Nation breaks ground on $52M thermal spa near Saskatoon | CBC News
Sask. First Nation issues notice of duty to consult to all industry stakeholders | CTV News
Prince Albert Grand Council studies benefits of Indigenous-led policing | SaskToday
Land governance was the top story in Alberta
Treaty Land Sharing Network Launches In Alberta | St Albert Gazette
BC stories included water rights, a specific claim and sovereignty
Can a lake become a person in law? A B.C. First Nation wants to find out | APTN News
$147.6M settles B.C. First Nation's 131-year-old water rights claim | The Free Press
Demonstrating unity, syilx Okanagan people and their kin cross the colonial border on horseback | Penticton Herald
Housing and salmon were front and center in the North
New federal funding to support affordable homes in two Yukon First Nations communities | CBC News
Truck delivery of B.C. salmon to Teslin, Yukon highlights cultural loss | CBC News
FROM THE COURTS
The Supreme Court of Canada weighed in on treaty interpretation and the honour of the Crown
Ontario (Attorney General) v. Restoule, 2024 SCC 27
Canada owes First Nations for treaty breaches, top court rules | Washington Post*
Restoring the honour of the Crown after a breach of treaties | National Magazine
Crown made a 'mockery' of 2 treaties with First Nations for 150 years, Supreme Court rules | CBC News
The Federal Court weighed in on its jurisdiction and the process for ratifying a settlement agreement
Roger Prairie Chicken v. Blood Tribe First Nation, 2024 FC 1151
APPLICATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW! INDIGENOUS LAW STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP
As part of our commitment to supporting the development of Indigenous lawyers, First Peoples Law offers an annual scholarship to an Indigenous law student with a demonstrated commitment to serving and advancing the interests of Indigenous Peoples. Applications for this year's $10,000 scholarship close tomorrow, July 31, 2024!
Indigenous Law Student Scholarship (firstpeopleslaw.com)
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
This ride is not a protest. It is, rather, a unity ride — a unity ride that demonstrates solidarity."
- Kúkpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir, Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
What is breath
If it cannot hurl storms”
- Jeremy Dutcher, Motewolonuwok (2023)
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