This week’s edition includes fishing, Treaty rights, child welfare, health care and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news featured procurement, environmental protection and discriminatory medical treatment
Formation of new procurement organization may muddy the waters for Indigenous businesses | Windspeaker
The protection of wetlands is tied to Indigenous and human rights | Rabble
Indigenous people sue over alleged Canadian secret medical experiment | Canada | The Guardian
Bill to make forced and coerced sterilization a criminal offence before Senate committee | CBC News
Fishing was back in the news in the East Coast
First Nations want to lead baby eel fishery threatened with closure | Yahoo
Ontario news included treaty negotiations, consultation, Métis rights and child welfare
Court judgment gives Canada, Ontario 60 days to pay out $10B treaty settlement | Sault Ste. Marie News
First Nations leaders continue to oppose Ontario nuclear waste burial projects | CBC News
Algonquins of Ontario organization removes nearly 2,000 members after ancestry disputes | CBC News
Demanding a proper say, Cat Lake First Nation's injunction pauses First Mining Gold's road work for project | CBC News
The Métis conservation grant making First Nations furious | The Narwhal
No home. No options: Ontario Indigenous kids ‘damaged’ by system sending them south | Global News
In Manitoba, the Environment Act, clean drinking water and health care were top headlines
Environment Act urgently needs an update | Winnipeg Free Press
Training program aims for safe, sustainable drinking water for Interlake First Nations | Hamilton Spectator
Health-care: new report makes suggestions to include Indigenous perspectives | CTV News
Language revitalization and national parks were in the spotlight in the Northwest Territories and Alberta
The N.W.T. has 11 official languages, yet service in Indigenous languages continues to be a struggle | CBC News
History of Canada’s largest national park reveals exclusion of First Nations people and injustice | Penticton Herald
BC headlines included spill response, child welfare and fish farms
Why Fraser River oil spill took nearly 3 months to start cleaning | The Narwhal
Report finds deficient communication with First Nations during hazardous spills | Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper
Tsilhqot’in Nation aims for control of child and family services | The Williams Lake Tribune
B.C. First Nations fear DFO rewriting fish farm transition | Business in Vancouver
Heiltsuk Nation sues federal government over ban on herring spawn fishery | CBC News
FROM THE COURTS
The BC Court of Appeal weighed in on the Crown's fiduciary duty to protect Aboriginal rights
Thomas v. Rio Tinto Alcan Inc., 2024 BCCA 62
First Nations praise ruling 'forcing' Crown to protect interests | CBC News
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Children are innocent and deserve the world. Imagine the strength of this nation if we brought up children who did not need to heal.
- Marilyn Charleyboy, Tsideldel First Nation
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
My dad once told me it’s best to think of each story as a journey. Each sentence, even each word, is a step toward your destination, and you have to be careful where you step as a storyteller because the people are stepping after you.
- Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell (2023)
