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First Nations Leadership Council calling for halt on changes to B.C.'s Clean Energy Act
Via City News
CHILLIWACK (NEWS1130) – The First Nations Leadership Council is the latest to register its opposition to pending changes to the province’s Clean Energy Act. Bill 17 proposes to remove energy self-...read more
Indigenous leaders call for systemic review of RCMP practices
Via Canadian Press
First Nations and Inuit leaders are urging Ottawa to launch an independent, civilian review of RCMP practices to start addressing the number of violent incidents between Mounties and Indigenous...read more
B.C. First Nations leaders want immediate end to open-net salmon farms
Via National Observer
A First Nations leadership alliance is calling for the immediate end to salmon farming using open-net pens in B.C. waters, citing the threat of sea lice to wild fish stocks. And on Monday, NDP...read more
‘We need action’: Teegee on delayed MMIWG National Action Plan
Via CKPG Today
It has been a little over a year since the final report on the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and still no National Action Plan to show for, causing some unrest...read more
Indigenous Day (Part 3): B.C. minister acknowledges province’s ‘very dark’ history
Via Business In Vancouver
Glacier Media hears from Indigenous leader, police chief and government minister in three-part series in advance of National Indigenous Peoples Day. ...read more
Indigenous Day (Part 2): Vancouver police chief says VPD values its relationship with Indigenous peoples
Via Business In Vancouver
Glacier Media hears from Indigenous leader, police chief and government minister in three-part series in advance of National Indigenous Peoples Day. ...read more
Regional chief Teegee calls for policing 'overhaul'
Via Prince George Citizen
Anger. Frustration. Sadness These are some of the emotions Terry Teegee, the Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, has felt in recent weeks. ...read more
No more reports, no more commissions: Indigenous people want immediate action
Via The Star
Indigenous people are being killed by police. We are being incarcerated at rates far beyond the rest of the Canadian population. Our children are caught in a vicious cycle and continue to be...read more
Indigenous Day (Part 1): B.C. Regional Chief Terry Teegee calls for ‘overhaul’ of policing
Via Richmond News
Glacier Media hears from Indigenous leader, police chief and government minister in advance of National Indigenous Peoples Day Anger. Frustration. Sadness. These are some of the emotions Terry...read more