Exploring Theme: "Treaty Relationships and Indigenous Rights"

New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party Leader Blaine Higgs speaks to supporters during a campaign stop in Moncton, N.B. on Friday. Photo: Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press.  APTN News: The Canada Press – New Brunswick is “ceded” land, the province’s Progressive Conservative leader said Friday on the campaign trail, highlighting his party’s position regarding a major lawsuit...

APTN News: Paul Prosper, a Mi’kmaw senator representing Nova Scotia, has released a report of an eight-month “listening tour” throughout Mi’kma’ki. Appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2023, Prosper said he and his team met with 1,701 people across the region. “Every part of Mi’kma’ki faces the same issues, to varying...

Commentary by Chris Walker Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs speaks during the CBC leaders’ debate on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Photo: Screenshot.  NationTalk: NB Media Coop – During last week’s debate, Blaine Higgs was asked by moderator Clare MacKenzie about the flyers that Campaign Life Coalition has recently distributed across New Brunswick. It would appear this question caused...

‘Colonial-rooted poverty will not be solved by more colonial solutions’ Ellen Gabriel speaks during a march on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Montreal, Saturday, September 30, 2023. Graham Hughes / The Canadian Press The Narwhal: Thirty-four years ago, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel was thrust into the spotlight when she was chosen as the spokesperson for...

From laying the foundations of Nunavut to the Oka crisis, the former PM’s legacy was one of contradictions CBC News: The late Brian Mulroney’s legacy with Indigenous peoples in Canada is marked by its contradictions — failures remembered for their good intentions, successes accompanied by catastrophic disappointments.  The former prime minister is praised by some Indigenous leaders for creating a...

And why some advocates say Canada needs to move from consultation to consent CBC Indigenous: You’ve probably heard the phrase duty to consult, or failure to consult, when it comes to governments and their relationships with First Nations, Inuit and Métis.  But what does it actually mean?  Stemming from three Supreme Court of Canada decisions in 2004...

PUBLISHED DECEMBER 31, 2023 UPDATED JANUARY 1, 2024 The Globe and Mail: Two years ago, First Nations leaders made clear what Canada must take to heart if it wants to be a global player in critical minerals and the energy transition: The only road to net zero runs through Indigenous lands. That is, any efforts to develop...

NationTalk: Winnipeg Free Press – Each year, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation prompts us to take stock of the progress we are making, as a country, on the journey towards reconciliation. Often this progress — or the lack of it — is measured by counting how many of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s...

First Nations’ leaders criticize how provincial Department of Aboriginal Affairs has been ‘overhauled’ CBC Indigenous: Leaders of the six Wolastoqey nations in New Brunswick have issued an open letter slamming Premier Blaine Higgs’s government for how it has handled its duty to consult and have signaled their readiness to work with a new provincial leader, should a...

Lametti told an AFN meeting he would examine calls to rescind Natural Resources Transfer Act CBC News: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and three western premiers are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to disassociate his government from comments made by his justice minister — who promised last week to “look at” a decades-old law that...

NationTalk: Country 94.1 – New Brunswick needs to do a better job of engaging with Indigenous communities, according to one federal minister. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller made the comments during a news conference on Tuesday. Miller said he has heard directly from Indigenous communities about the expiration of tax-sharing agreements“. I don’t think it...

NationTalk: ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TERRITORY, MB — Today, the Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) is calling on Prime Minister Trudeau and the Government of Canada to ensure that First Nations leaders are included in health discussions on February 7, 2023. “Health care systems are in crisis. They are not meeting the needs of First Nations people, and...

Funding proposal tied to measurable targets, tax surrender at odds with Indigenous vision CBC News: To some First Nations chiefs in New Brunswick, the “new partnership” the Higgs government is offering them looks a lot like old-style paternalism The province’s proposal to replace the existing tax-sharing agreement is another example of the vast philosophical chasm...

Prime Minister’s Office – “25th anniversary of the final report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples”. The five-volume landmark document outlined 440 recommendations on Indigenous governance, nation rebuilding, lands and resources, treaties, economic development, and social policy, and called for the renewal of the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and all orders of...