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IJC asked to help form plan for transboundary pollution
The ongoing struggle to establish a transboundary plan to deal with pollution in the Elk and Kootenay/Kootenai river watershed today (March 11) reached a positive…
NDP backtracks on harmful Land Act legislation
MLA Minute By Doug Clovechok For weeks, I have heard loud and clear from my constituents in Columbia River-Revelstoke that the NDP’s proposed changes to…
Indigenous Student Awards application deadline Apr. 4
Rebecca White is a First Nations student with her sights set on becoming a nurse. She has moved closer to achieving that goal courtesy of…
Wildsight applauds ruling to reform mineral staking regime
Last Tuesday, the BC Supreme Court released its decision holding that the province needs to change its free entry mineral claim system within the next…
Dispute looms over water pollution crisis in Elk Valley
By Wyatt Petryshen Op-Ed Commentary The Elk Valley is in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. It hosts stunning views of rugged mountains and scenic…
Marking first year for British Columbia’s A Path Forward
Letter to the Editor Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people experience violence at a much higher rate than other populations. Dismantling the underlying and systemic…
Disappointment and outrage shared over IJC rejection
The governments of Yaq̓ it ʔa·knuqⱡiʾit, ʔakisq̓ nuk, Yaqan Nuʔkiy and ʔaq̓ am as well as the Ktunaxa Nation Council (KNC) Chair today communicated their…
Report on Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act released
The B.C. government June 30 released the first annual report on progress for implementing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. In 2017,…
Rights, reconciliation, and resistance 2020
Letter to the Editor The current political struggle by the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and their supporters, and the responses of the cops under state direction,…