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November 19, 2024
Indigenous equity stake in natural gas pipelines now in doubt, TC Energy says
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 19, 2024 UPDATED NOVEMBER 20, 2024 The Globe and Mail: A deal touted as Canada’s largest equity purchase by an Indigenous partnership may not be completed as planned because of an undisclosed snag at TC Energy Corp. TRP-T -0.04%decrease, which had previously agreed to sell the minority stake in its Alberta gas pipeline network. François Poirier, TC...
November 18, 2024
Ex-official speaks out about alleged racism at Indian Oil and Gas Canada
Woman suing former employer in proposed class action after a 27-year career CBC Indigenous: If Yvette Zentner could turn back time, the career public servant would give her younger self one piece of advice: “Don’t apply at IOGC.” That’s a reference to Indian Oil and Gas Canada, an Alberta-based federal agency that oversees fossil fuel...
October 21, 2024
Home Depot launches investigation into Winnipeg store incident
APTN News: What would be a normal stop to pick up an online order at a Home Deport in Winnipeg has turned into an incident involving a security guard and an investigation. On Oct. 1, Calvin Nepinak and Jennifer Chartrand went to the store in the city’s north end to pick up a door they had ordered....
October 3, 2024
B.C. father and daughter accuse Canadian Tire, security company of racism, profiling
Globe and Mail: An Indigenous father and daughter in British Columbia are accusing Canadian Tire and its third-party security company of racial profiling and racism after they say he was singled out at a store in Coquitlam and an employee responded with a racist comment. Dawn Wilson is speaking publicly about the human rights complaint...
October 1, 2024
Heiltsuk Nation Goes Public With Human Rights Complaint Against Canadian Tire Alleging Racist Treatment of Indigenous Customers; Chief Says “Trust Has Been Broken”
Complaint and request for additional disclosure seek systemic change at the company, which recently boasted about its Newsweek ranking as “the most trustworthy Canadian retailer.” NationTalk: COQUITLAM, BC – Richard and Dawn Wilson, father and daughter, are going public today with a BC Human Rights Commission complaint they have filed against Canadian Tire Corporation and...
September 30, 2024
Tensions rise over the Nisga’a Nation’s plans to build pipeline across Northern B.C.
Globe and Mail: A B.C. pipeline project touted by the Nisga’a Nation as a prime example of economic reconciliation has instead become a thorny issue marked by rising tensions and complications with nearby Indigenous groups. Construction of the 750-kilometre Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) project across Northern British Columbia is proving to be controversial. In particular, the...
September 10, 2024
TC Energy says sale of minority stake in pipeline to Indigenous groups is delayed
APTN News: The Canadian Press – A deal that was billed as Canada’s largest-ever Indigenous equity ownership agreement has hit a snag. TC Energy Corp. said Tuesday the $1-billion agreement, announced in July, that would see it sell a minority stake in its Western Canadian natural gas transmission network to a consortium of Indigenous communities...
August 15, 2024
Advocacy group asks for details of $1B sale to Indigenous consortium in the North
APTN News: A public interest group is calling on Bell Media to release financial information regarding its intent to sell telecommunications provider Northwestel to Sixty North Unity (SNU), a consortium of Indigenous businesses. In July, the Public Interest Advocacy Center (PIAC), a non-profit organization that advocates for consumers in regulated industries, submitted a request to...
July 26, 2024
‘Embarrassing’: Yukon premier blasts Bell over service issues
Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai says Bell should be embarrassed by the terrible cellphone service the territory has been getting over the last several months. APTN News; The Canadian Press – In a letter to Bell Canada CEO Mirko Bibic, Pillai says Yukoners have experienced frequent dropped calls and poor coverage even while downtown in the...
May 15, 2024
American Oil Company, Obsidian Energy Petitions to have an entire Canadian Indigenous Government Imprisoned for Peacefully Practicing Their Treaty Rights
NationTalk: PEACE RIVER, AB – In an unprecedented move, an American oil company is attempting to have the entire elected government of a Canadian First Nation imprisoned for practicing their constitutionally guaranteed Treaty Rights. On May 14, Obsidian filed materials with the court asking it to incarcerate the Chief and Council of WCFN for purportedly...
February 14, 2024
Alberta First Nation sends notice of opposition to Obsidian Energy drilling plans
The Globe and Mail: Reuters – A Canadian First Nation on Wednesday said it has told the Alberta Energy Regulator that oil and gas producer Obsidian Energy Ltd. OBE-T +3.43%increase cannot proceed with plans to expand drilling on its territory owing to concerns about earthquakes. The Woodland Cree First Nation in Northern Alberta criticized Obsidian earlier this week for failing...
January 23, 2024
Wyloo Metals CEO gives update on Ring of Fire mining projects, though First Nations resistance continues
Some First Nations still opposed to development as need for critical minerals grows CBC Indigenous: As the demand for critical minerals grows, the CEO of the main company involved in northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire says it’s developing a nickel deposit that could be producing minerals for two decades. Wyloo Metals CEO Kristan Straub gave the update Tuesday...
January 22, 2024
Report raises questions around growing mining exploration in northern B.C.
Most mining claims in the region are close to rivers, researchers find CBC News: A new report by the U.S. branch of the non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency says that investment interest and government tax incentives are fuelling intense mining exploration in remote northern B.C. — raising concerns about the environmental impacts of the work and its financial implications. The...
December 13, 2023
CN finally acknowledges “complex history of railways” after mass resignation of Indigenous advisory council
“They continue to enjoy…the use of land and so on, just as our people continue to experience the impact of the loss.” — Roberta Jamieson, former co-chair of CN Rail’s Indigenous advisory council Murray Sinclair and Roberta Jamieson, former co-chairs of CN Rail’s Indigenous advisory council Windspeaker.com: It took the resignation of its entire Indigenous...
December 11, 2023
Entire Indigenous advisory council for CN Rail resigns
Murray Sinclair says the unanimous resignation was due to ‘disagreements.’ Photo: Danielle Paradis/APTN APTN News: Twelve members of the Indigenous advisory council for CN Rail have unanimously resigned citing disagreements between the group and Canadian Rail. “As we step back from CN, we are earnest in our belief that CN has missed the mark on...
November 15, 2023
Plugging the gaps in the Indigenous electric highway
Rural, remote Indigenous communities face unique obstacles and need adapted solutions. Illustration by Nay Drew / Indigenous Clean Energy Charge Up program Canada’s National Observer: Paving the way to an Indigenous electric highway in Canada offers opportunities, but also includes navigating communities’ unique needs and potential obstacles, especially in rural and remote areas, experts say. ...
November 7, 2023
First Nations from B.C. in Ottawa to lobby feds to close fish farms on west coast
Some leaders say open-net fish farms are depleting wild salmon stocks. APTN News: A group of First Nations from British Columbia is calling on the Trudeau government to make good on its commitment to phase out open-net salmon farmsby 2025. Chiefs from across the province are in Ottawa for meetings with federal officials, including Fisheries Minister...
October 12, 2023
Indigenous spotlight: The dangers of tokenism in Truth and Reconciliation
‘The hiring in many organizations just hasn’t been there when it comes to Indigenous People’ NationTalk: HRD: Human Resources Director – A recent Deloitte report found that while many Canadian organizations feel like they’re doing their bit in championing Indigenous employees in the workplace, the individuals themselves feel otherwise. The report interviewed several Indigenous youths looking to...
October 12, 2023
Fish farm giant Mowi suing fisheries ministers, taxpayers for Discovery Islands closures
Former federal fisheries ministers Joyce Murray (above) and Bernadette Jordan are being sued by Mowi, an international fish farm company, for the federal government’s decision to close sites in the Discovery Islands. File photo by IMPAC5 Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: An international aquaculture giant is suing two former Canadian fisheries ministers for alleged damages...
August 18, 2023
Murchison Minerals is Violating Indigenous Rights to the Detriment of Its Shareholders and Investors
NationTalk: UASHAT MAK MANI-UTENAM, QC – Innu Takuaikan Uashat mak Mani-utenam (ITUM) – the Innu Government of the Innu First Nation of Uashat mak Mani-utenam located near Sept-Îles, Québec – is frustrated and disappointed by the colonialist behavior of mining exploration company Murchison Minerals Ltd. The company refuses to respect the fact that the Innu...
April 22, 2023
Hundreds of lodge workers in Fort McMurray face termination after rejecting pay cut, union says
Civeo also demanded salary cuts years ago, says longtime housekeeping coordinator CBC News: Angela Fiddler doesn’t know how she’ll afford to feed her husband, who’s terminally ill with cancer, after being let go last week — five months after she voted to reject a pay cut. Fiddler is one of around 300 workers at Wapasu Creek Lodge,...
April 4, 2023
Canada’s big banks are facing increasing pressure from climate activists as shareholders look to shape corporate policy.
Activists grow toolbox to shift corporate policy It was only after his flight landed in Toronto last year that Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief Na’Moks learned that Royal Bank of Canada had cancelled its in-person annual general meeting with less than a day’s notice. The bank cited COVID-19 as the reason it moved the event entirely online,...
March 3, 2023
Lakehead University students demand school cut ties with RBC for funding fossil fuel projects
CBC News: About two dozen Lakehead University students in Thunder Bay, Ont. protested outside the Royal Bank campus branch Thursday afternoon — but their concerns had nothing to do with banking fees. Instead, they were calling out the institution for being the country’s biggest funder of the fossil fuel industry, according to a global report called Banking on...
February 17, 2023
Fisheries Department to shut 15 salmon farms off B.C.’s coast to protect wild fish
The Globe and Mail: Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has announced the federal government will not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms around British Columbia’s Discovery Islands. Murray says in a news release the Discovery Islands area is a key migration route for wild salmon where narrow passages bring migrating juvenile salmon into close...
January 25, 2023
Indigenous group sues Canada utility for $1.6 billion over dam
The Business Standard: Canada’s Innu community announced Tuesday it had filed suit against Quebec province’s state-owned power company, alleging it wrongfully destroyed the Indigenous group’s land during the construction of a massive dam. For the “devastating impacts” and “irreparable harm” caused by Hydro-Quebec’s construction of the Churchill Falls mega-dam in the 1960s, the Innu people...
November 17, 2022
NTI Welcomes the Federal Government’s Decision on Baffinland’s Phase 2 Proposal
NationTalk: Iqaluit, Nunavut) Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) welcomes the decision of the Honourable Dan Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs, on behalf of responsible ministers, on the Nunavut Impact Review Board’s (NIRB) Reconsideration Report on Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation’s (Baffinland) Mary River Project Phase 2 Proposal issued on May 13, 2022 (the “Report”). The NIRB determined...
October 23, 2022
Coastal GasLink in hot water over pipeline environmental violations
Vancouver SUN: TC Energy’s Coastal GasLink pipeline project is in hot water with British Columbia’s environmental regulator for failing to meet the conditions of a compliance agreement that was supposed to correct a lengthening history of violations of the project’s environmental permit. The Environmental Assessment Office posted an order to its website late Friday, issued...
October 10, 2022
FNLC Stands with Squamish Nation in Support of Sen̓áḵw
NationTalk: (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) The application to the Court for judicial review by the Kits Point Residents Association asking for the services agreement between the City of Vancouver and Squamish Nation to be quashed is an aggressive and objectionable action to reject the path-breaking and needed Sen̓áḵw development. The City...
May 26, 2022
Watchdog finds Canada’s big banks treat Indigenous, visible minority customers unequally
Canadian Press: Pressure sales tactics. Ill-fitted suggestions. Misleading information. Visible minority and Indigenous customers at Canada’s big banks more often received inappropriate treatment from sales staff, part of a wider trend of “concerning” interactions between those institutions and shoppers, a federal consumer watchdog has found. In a mystery shopping review conducted in 2019 by the...
March 15, 2022
Trans Mountain Pipeline TMX: Open Letter from UBCIC on risk to Indigenous investors
NationTalk: Union of BC Indian Chiefs – Recent announcements that the new cost of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) has ballooned to $21.4 billion, and that the federal government will not invest further public funds into the project should be a major red flag for anyone considering economic participation or ownership of the controversial pipeline, which...
November 22, 2021
Big 5 Banks support investments in Arctic Wildlife Refuge
US Congress passed “Build Back Better Act”, which restores protections to Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit (The Sacred Place Where Life Begins), also known as the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. When more than 400,000 acres of the Coastal Plain were leased by the Trump Administration, not a single acre was leased by...
September 29, 2021
OLG failed to honor revenue sharing agreement
Toronto Star – For the third time in two-and-a-half years a judge has slapped down the Ontario government and the OLG for failing to honour a revenue sharing agreement it made 13 years ago with a consortium of 132 Ontario First Nations. The case begins with a 2008 revenue sharing agreement between the Ontario Lottery...
September 28, 2021
DeBeers Canada
CISION – DeBeers Canada (DBC) is seeking Ontario Government approval for a third landfill waste site to be built and filled up at the Victor Mine Site, located in a vulnerable James Bay wetlands area, and in a place of critical importance to Attawapiskat. The Victor Mine is now in the closure phase, where decommissioning...
September 15, 2021
Antiquated Mining Acts
Yukon Government – In collaboration with Yukon First Nations, the Government of Yukon is developing new mining legislation that will improve the management of the Yukon’s mineral resources in a way that respects First Nations’ relationships with the land and supports a modern and sustainable mining industry. The new legislation will work to improve the...
February 10, 2021
Workplace bias against Indigenous workers
Catalyst – A new study “Building Inclusion for Indigenous Peoples in Canadian Workplaces”, found 52% of Indigenous Peoples working in Canada said they are regularly on guard to experiences of bias, a hallmark of emotional tax, with women on guard (67%) significantly more than men (38%). The new research shows that in addition to paying...
February 8, 2021
Business issues in advancing reconciliation
Reconciliation and Responsible Investment Initiative – RRII, a partnership between the National Aboriginal Trust Officers Association (NATOA) and the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE) released a report “Business and Reconciliation: An Update Exploring the Performance of Public Companies in Canada” that “suggests that corporate Canada is slow to recognize the value of tracking...
February 3, 2021
Giant Mine Remediation
CBC – The Giant Mine operated from 1948 to 2006, displacing the Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YNDFN) from the western part of Yellowknife Bay, affecting their harvesting rights. The mine contaminated the water and led to long-term negative social impacts among the YKDFN. The YKDFN and the federal government agreed to set up a formal...
January 26, 2021
Antiquated Mining Acts
The Narwhal – Over the past 10 years, the Yukon government has collected a mere 0.3 per cent of the value of placer and quartz resources on behalf of all Yukoners, the rightful owners of those minerals. An independent panel appointed by the government to review the territory’s mining legislation found that, during this period,...
December 16, 2020
Big 5 Banks support investments in Arctic Wildlife Refuge: Scotiabank, CIBC, TDBFG
Yukon News – Scotiabank is the latest of five Canadian banks to reject drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. “Scotiabank will not provide direct financing or project-specific financial and advisory services for activities that are directly related to the exploration, development or production of oil and gas within the Arctic Circle, including the Arctic...
October 22, 2020
Big 5 Banks support investments in Arctic Wildlife Refuge: BMO and RBC
Vuntut Gwitchin Government and Gwich’in Tribal Council are celebrating news that the Bank of Montreal (BMO) has prohibited financing for oil and gas exploration and development activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. BMO has confirmed this new policy in an update to their Responsible Lending webpage. The move from BMO follows a similar action...
September 9, 2020
NexGen Energy failure on Métis Impact Benefit Agreement
NationTalk – The Métis Nation – Saskatchewan (“MN-S”) has filed a claim against NexGen Energy Ltd. in the Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan. MN-S is seeking from the Court: a declaration that NexGen is in breach of its obligations to negotiate an Impact Benefit Agreement (“IBA”) with MN-S in good faith and on a...
July 20, 2020
Alberta Energy Regulator Regulatory Issues
NationTalk – This omnibus bill 22 includes amendments that would make the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) the sole judge of the public interest for all Albertans, allowing the elected government to cut itself out of the decision-making process. This means the AER will be the final decision maker about impacts to Treaty rights and the...
June 23, 2020
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers using COVID to advance agenda
NationTalk – All temporarily suspended reporting and monitoring requirements will come back into effect on July 15, 2020. The Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) decision to end its temporary suspensions follows steps taken by the Government of Alberta, including the repeal of Ministerial Order 219/2020 and Ministerial Order 17/2020. All temporarily suspended reporting and monitoring requirements...
June 5, 2020
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers using COVID to advance agenda
Three First Nations in northeast Alberta – Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Fort McKay First Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation – have jointly filed an appeal related to recent Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) decisions to suspend key aspects of environmental monitoring in the oil sands. The First Nations were not consulted on decisions that clearly...
April 30, 2020
Big 5 Banks support investments in Arctic Wildlife Refuge
Despite movement by the majority of major U.S. banks – five of the top 6 – there has yet to be similar action from their Canadian peers to rule out financing new oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Arctic Refuge). In December, 2019, representatives of Vuntut...
March 1, 2020
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers using COVID to advance agenda
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers requested that the federal government relax several regulatory and policy activities, including an indefinite suspension of all consultation with industry to develop new environmental policies. At the same time, industry has lobbied the provincial government to resume consultation with Indigenous communities to advance projects despite the closure of our...
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