This week’s edition includes MMIWG2S+ calls for justice, economic development, education, consultation, repatriation, fisheries and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news included MMIWG2S+ calls for justice and housing
After five years, ‘calls for justice’ on MMIWG2S+ issues still not complete | APTN News
House of Commons committee looking at ways to close First Nations housing gap | APTN News
East Coast headlines featured economic development and forest conservation
Glooscap First Nation to become majority owner of 2 N.S. shipyards | CTV News
The Mi’kmaq-led fight to save a Nova Scotia forest | The Narwhal
Education and language requirements were front and centre in Québec
34 Cree teachers in Quebec graduate from community-based university programs | CBC News
Indigenous students want exemption from Quebec language law | APTN News
Environmental contamination, the Ring of Fire, consultation, and a space for the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation in the Parliamentary precinct made headlines in Ontario
Grassy Narrows First Nation files lawsuit against Ontario, federal governments over mercury contamination | CBC News
Northwest First Nations decry Wyloo decision to site Ring of Fire mineral processor in Sudbury | Northern Ontario Business
MSIFN leaders raising concerns about zoning orders and consultation with First Nations | Durham Radio News
Algonquin Anishinabeg included in Ottawa Indigenous centre | APTN News
In Manitoba, repatriation was the top story
University of Manitoba to return Indigenous human remains | APTN News
Saskatchewan headlines highlighted MMIWG2S+ and the contributions of Cree soldiers to D-Day
'It's time for action': FSIN reacts to Sask. MMIWG progress report | CBC News
Sask. First Nations families travel to France for unveiling of D-Day statue | CBC News
Repatriation and emergency management were top stories in Alberta
Blackfoot headdress returning to Alberta’s Siksika First Nation | Global News
Cold Lake First Nations and Fire & Flood Services sign agreement | Lakeland News
BC headlines included land disputes, pipeline opposition, policing, fisheries, and UNDRIP
In northwest B.C., a land disagreement between First Nations heads to court | Ricochet Media
Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs urge banks to snub TC Energy bonds | CTV News
Tiny House Warriors found guilty of all charges for TMX altercations | IndigiNews
After 136 years of police violence, Gitxsan leaders want an overhaul of the RCMP | IndigiNews
Court rejects bid to review minister's order to B.C. salmon farms | CBC News
Vancouver lays out Indigenous rights action plan to mark 10 years of reconciliation | Global News
Remediation made the news in Yukon
Yukon Water Board schedules hearing on remediation dispute | APTN News
In case you missed it, check out our new blog series, What We're Watching, featuring great books, podcasts, films and music by Indigenous writers and artists
What We're Watching: Summer Edition | First Peoples Law LLP
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
I don’t want to call it an ‘uprising’ ... It was the defending of the territories and the defending of our laws, and the defending of who we are."
- Joel Starlund/Sk’a’nism Tsa ‘Win’Giit, Executive Director of the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
Names have power. This is the fundamental principle of magic everywhere. Call out the name of a supernatural being, and you will have its instant and undivided attention in the same way that your lost toddler will have yours the second it calls your name."
- Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach (2000)