The B.C. RCMP has announced it will be providing a statement Wednesday at 3 p.m. to address its policing efforts over a dispute involving the Coastal GasLink pipeline project. Last-ditch talks between the British Columbia government and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to an ongoing standoff over the natural gas pipeline, broke down Tuesday evening.   The talks…

Last-ditch talks between the British Columbia government and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to an ongoing standoff over a natural gas pipeline broke down Tuesday evening.   The discussions began last Thursday after the B.C. government appointed former NDP MP Nathan Cullen to act as a liaison in the talks with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary…

First Nations chiefs in the Atlantic region are asking the federal government for emergency help to deal with requests for legal and mental health support from former students submitting claims in the Indian day schools settlement process. John Paul, executive director of the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APC-FNC) and a former day school student himself, said…

The conflict over a natural gas pipeline in northwestern British Columbia is the latest flashpoint between resource development and Indigenous rights and title in a province where large swaths of territory are not covered by any treaty.   At the centre of the conflict is a multi-billion dollar natural gas project — touted as the largest private…

First Nations that are part of the Robinson-Huron Treaty group demanded Tuesday that Canada and Ontario back off ongoing land claim talks with neighbouring Indigenous organizations that they say infringe on their treaty rights.  Batchewana First Nation Chief Dean Sayers said talks between the two levels of government and the Algonquins of Ontario along with the…

Leadership from Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Coldwater and a collective of Stó:lō bands will speak to media at noon PT about the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold the federal government’s re-approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.  The B.C. First Nations squared off against the federal government in the Federal Court of Appeal in December, arguing that Ottawa…