Exploring Theme: "Indigenous-led Initiatives"

CBC News: Clean energy projects are booming in Indigenous communities, with big gains in the number of solar, bioenergy, wind, hydro and battery storage projects. Roughly 200 major projects are in operation, along with 2,000 more smaller-scale projects, according to a recent report from Indigenous Clean Energy. Many Indigenous communities have turned to renewable energy projects...

In the Seal River watershed, the site of a proposed Indigenous-led conservation project, community members worked with the Audubon Society to identify more species than were previously known The global population of lesser yellowlegs has declined severely in recent decades, but they are abundant in the Seal River watershed. The birds only breed in intact...

Participants of the Ogemawahj Tribal Council Drinking Water Internship Program and Water First celebrate graduation NationTalk: When Janelle Snache first heard about the Drinking Water Internship being offered by Water First Education & Training Inc. right in her home community of Rama First Nation, she knew she couldn’t pass it up. Returning home after nine...

NationTalk: HALIFAX NS, LAB/RC — Today, Chief Robert Louie, Chairman of the First Nation Lands Advisory Board (LAB) and Michael L. Rice, Chair of the First Nations Market Housing Fund (FNMHF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the intent to develop a framework for cooperation and collaboration with each other over mutual goals. The...

Opening ceremony at Hot Springs Cove on Aug. 8. Submitted/Clean Energy BC. Canada’s National Observer: Former Hesquiaht Chief Richard Lucas dreamed of a day when his community of Hot Springs Cove would have clean, self-sufficient energy. After 17 years, that dream came close to fruition with the 2021 opening of the Ahtaapq Creek Hydro Project...

An Indigenous-led, cross-border approach has seen great successes. But it needs BC and Canada’s ongoing financial support. Canada’s National Observer: The Columbia River was once the source of the greatest salmon runs in the world. Millions of life-giving sockeye and giant chinook swam upriver to spawn each year. The Columbia’s headwaters are in British Columbia....

APTN News: For the past two decades, Sandra Delaronde has been an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people. Now she’s leading a committee called Gganwenimaanaanig, in English it means, We Take Care of Them All. The committee is tasked with holding governments and Canadians accountable when it comes to implementing the...

Great-aunt calls for all missing and murdered Indigenous peoples to be honoured. APTN News: For nearly a decade, Thelma Favel has kept the curtains in her living room closed. It stops her from looking out the window and waiting for her grand-niece Tina Fontaine to come home. “Not a day goes by that she’s not...

How five First Nations on Vancouver Island are joining to redefine fishing industry success. A Tyee Q&A. WHY NUU-CHAH-NULTH SEAFOOD WORKS Who works: A three-person team manages Nuu-chah-nulth Seafood on behalf of five partner First Nations who reside on what’s currently called Vancouver Island. The company employs up to 130 people at its cannery in the...

Indigenous communities need better financing entities. Here are two that could help and would eventually be self-sustaining NationTalk: A key obstacle to building economic prosperity in Canada’s Indigenous communities is lack of access to the financing needed to invest in public infrastructure, housing and economic development. Indigenous Services Canada and the Assembly of First Nations...

NationTalk: BOE Report – As a polar vortex began its descent into BC & Western Canada late last week bringing record low temperatures, the Indian Resource Council (IRC) was trying to warm things up on Bay Street in Toronto with a conference proposing major project collaboration and investment for true reconciliation and action with Indigenous peoples. The...