This week’s edition includes energy sovereignty, health care reform, marine protection, Aboriginal title and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news featured Jordan’s Principle and economic development
Ottawa failing to meet Jordan's Principle deadlines for First Nations kids' care most of the time | CBC News
What could a $5B government loan program do? Turn Indigenous communities into powerful investors | CBC News
BC news included marine protection, energy sovereignty, cultural wildfire burns and Aboriginal title
How more First Nations in B.C. are using cultural practices to protect their communities from wildfire | CBC News
It’s the world’s first Indigenous-led ‘blue park.’ And Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation pulled it off without waiting on Canada | The Narwhal
‘Fire is medicine’: WFN company utilizes prescribed burns to mitigate wildfire risks | IndigiNews
The Haida Get Their Land Back | The Tyee
This B.C. First Nation uses over 1M litres of diesel a year. They plan to replace it all with solar power | CBC News
Nuchatlaht First Nation granted partial Aboriginal land title by B.C. Supreme Court | CBC News
Access to safe drinking water and a residential-school class action were top stories in Alberta
For First Nations in Alberta, drought only compounds existing water issues | CBC News
Calgary judge permits class-action lawsuit over priest’s residential-school remarks | Globe and Mail *
Health care reform was front and centre in Yukon
First Nations leaders disappointed Yukon's Health Authority Act is not yet law | CBC News
Legal action against the Crown, the landfill search and consultation topped Manitoba news
Peguis First Nation files $1 billion claim against all levels of government over devastating 2022 flood - Winnipeg | Global News
Funding for Manitoba landfill search welcome, but First Nations-led response still needed | Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs
Manitoba First Nation seeks court order to halt logging in Duck Mountains | CBC News
Ontario headlines included environmental health, the RHT settlement and a call for police reform
Can these far northern First Nations protect the world’s Breathing Lands? | The Narwhal
Don't leave us out of UN plastic treaty talks, says Aamjiwnaang First Nation | CityNews
Garden River says no to 100 per cent treaty settlement payouts | CTV News
Collective or individual? The key question behind distributing $10B Robinson Huron Treaty settlement | CBC News
'It cuts you to the heart': Thunder Bay families of Indigenous people in unsolved death cases seek answers | CBC News
Identity fraud topped Quebec headlines
Abenaki in Quebec take identity fraud concerns to the United Nations | CBC News
Nunavut news featured health care and the tuberculosis crisis
Inuit leaders disappointed with budget's lack of money for tuberculosis elimination | CBC News
Language revitalization and fishing rights made East Coast headlines
'Every word is life': Folks gather to learn Wolastoqey language | CBC News
Elver case involving 5 Mi'kmaw men ends with single guilty plea to obstruction | CBC News
In case you missed it, check out Kate Gunn’s case comment on the recent Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Supreme Court of Canada decision
Indigenous Sovereignty at the Supreme Court: Case Comment on Dickson | First Peoples Law | Kate Gunn
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
You give us more authority, more jurisdiction, more space to do this work — we’ll do it better than anyone."
- Councillor Jordan Coble, Westbank First Nation
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
Maybe all that a family is, is the shape of its silence."
- Kei Miller, Things I Have Withheld (2021)
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