‘It’s blown me away’: Sheryl Lightfoot becomes first Indigenous woman from Canada appointed to UN expert body
Canada is ‘behind on almost everything’ when it comes to implementing the historic UN Declaration...
‘I wanted to show them I wasn’t extinct’
The Canadian government declared them extinct 64 years ago. These living, breathing Sinixt people beg...
So there’s going to be a fall election in B.C.: has the NDP kept its environmental promises?
The NDP rose to power in 2017 vowing to take action on climate change, old-growth...
Canadian oil lobby’s demands to skip environmental monitoring put public health at risk, experts warn
CAPP asked the federal government to suspend pollution monitoring and methane leak detection — requests...
‘They are erasing our history’: Indigenous sites buried under Coastal GasLink pipeline infrastructure
As the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en fight to stop the controversial $6.6 billion natural...
B.C. takes historic steps towards the rights of Indigenous Peoples, but the hard work is yet to come
British Columbia recently introduced groundbreaking provincial legislation to implement global standards for upholding the rights...
B.C. First Nations should require full clean-up costs up-front for mines: new study
While other jurisdictions like Quebec and Alaska require mines to post full remediation costs as...
The jade hunters on Tahltan land
Popularized in reality TV shows like Jade Fever, amateur and independent miners have been flocking...
Unravelling B.C.’s landmark legislation on Indigenous rights
If passed, the new law will make B.C. the first government in Canada to codify...
