Despite a recent directive from B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office for Coastal GasLink to consult further with First Nations along a stretch of its pipeline route at the heart of the Wet’suwet’en conflict, the company’s work continues along the Morice West Forest Service Road in northern B.C.  The company and its contractors are expanding a worker…

Red River College’s second annual Indigenous winter games kicked off Monday with moose call and moose haul competitions. “I think it’s really important that Indigenous students, staff, faculty and even non-Indigenous students experience outdoor fun,” said the director of Indigenous support, Maria Morrison. Morrison was at the college’s Notre Dame campus in Winnipeg to help judge the…

Politicians, environmentalists and Metis leaders were among those reacting to the bombshell news Sunday night that mining giant Teck Resources was withdrawing its application for a $20-billion oilsands mine.  The Teck Frontier mine had become a focal point of national debate around climate change and the economy, and its chief executive cited that nexus as one…

In a packed gym in Colville Lake, N.W.T., Chief Wilbert Kochon leans into a microphone. Across a roughly-arranged square of folding tables, officials from the territory’s department of Environment and Natural Resources listen intently. “It’s our livelihood. For you it’s just a job. It’s a big difference,” says Kochon. The topic is caribou, but it…

The Ontario Provincial Police have moved in on the rail blockade near Belleville, Ont., where protests by the Mohawks of Tyendinaga have crippled passenger and freight train traffic for more than two weeks in solidarity with anti-pipeline protests in northern B.C. Police and CN Rail had warned protesters to clear the area by midnight Sunday. Police and the railway ordered the…

Housing ministers from all three territories are brainstorming ways to lobby the federal government for more support in the North.   The trio have a meeting next month to talk about issues that aggravate the northern housing crisis, like aging infrastructure, lack of housing markets, short construction seasons, limited access to contractors for maintenance, and low…