First Nations and their allies in Canada vow to stop the climate polluting $9.3 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, approved by the Trudeau government a day after the House of Commons had passed a non-binding resolution declaring climate change a national emergency.
Category: Indigenous Rights
Canada’s MMIWG report spurs debate on the shifting definitions of genocideCanada’s MMIWG report spurs debate on the shifting definitions of genocide
The final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), which labeled the ongoing violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada a "Canadian genocide" caused by "state actions and actions rooted in colonialism and colonial ideologies", calls on Canadian society "to address the
Indigenous-led Tiny House Warriors build homes to stop Kinda Morgan’s Trans Mountain projectIndigenous-led Tiny House Warriors build homes to stop Kinda Morgan’s Trans Mountain project
Indigenous-led Tiny House Warriors are building homes in the path of the Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline to protest the project, which would increase the flow of Alberta tar sands to the Vancouver coast from the current 300,000 barrels a day to 890,000.
Why is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous?Why is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous?
The recent decision by an all-white jury to acquit Gerald Stanley, the killer of Colten Boushie calls on us all to confront systematic racism and demand reforms to Canada's justice system, which "works against Indigenous people at every level".