Current Problems: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation

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September 5, 2024


Crown suggests RCMP acted fairly in Wet’suwet’en leader’s arrest

New video shown by Crown during hearing for Wet’suwet’en leader’s abuse-of-process claim CBC Indigenous: A Crown lawyer suggested the RCMP behaved reasonably in the circumstances as she cross-examined a Wet’suwet’en leader arrested for blockading the Coastal GasLink pipeline in 2021. Crown lawyer Kathryn Costain is questioning Sleydo’, also known as Molly Wickham, a wing chief of...

June 11, 2024


Canada: International Delegation to Attend Trial of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

NationTalk: A delegation of Amnesty International representatives from France, Germany, the United States and Canada will attend the trials of criminalized land defenders from the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Smithers, British Columbia the week of 17 June. The delegates will be there to watch the criminal court proceedings and be in solidarity with the criminalized defenders,...

January 5, 2024


First Nation appeals court decision

B.C. Supreme Court ruling could transform the mining claims system in Canada     Fly camp with Lindquist Peak in the distance on the Deer Horn property, 120 kilometres south of Smithers, B.C. Courtesy of Tony Fogarassy  First People’s Law Report: CIM Magazine – Leaders of the Gitxaała Nation applauded a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling that...

December 9, 2023


U.S. Indigenous group in Canada competes for territorial claims against Canadian Indigenous nations

NATHAN VANDERKLIPPEINTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT NELSON, B.C. FOR SUBSCRIBERS The Globe and Mail: PUBLISHED YESTERDAY UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO A U.S. Indigenous group has established a formal presence in British Columbia and is pushing for government recognition and funding, two years after a Canadian Supreme Court ruling declared it “an Aboriginal people of Canada.” The office of the Sinixt...