Indigenous Peoples

27/11/24
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs met on Nov. 25 to recognize the expiration of PRGT's environmental assessment permit with a ceremony. Photo from Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs Office

Nov. 27, 2024

The fate of a 900-kilometre natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia is in limbo after its environmental assessment certificate expired on Nov. 25.

The province must decide whether to greenlight the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline by either making its decade-old certificate permanent or sending the entire project back to the drawing board for a new environmental assessment.

18/11/24
Author: 
The Breach
Screenshot:  UN expert slams Canada’s complicity in Gaza assault

Nov 13, 2024 

UN expert slams Canada’s complicity in Gaza assault

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s ‘crystal clear’ complicity in the Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ‘hope that remains in this darkness.’

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR9_cWkt-HA

14/11/24
Author: 
Deep Jigneshkumar Parekh
The Chemetall Foote Lithium Operation in Clayton Valley, a dry lake bed in Esmeralda County, Nevada, just east of Silver Peak, a tiny town that has been host to various kinds of mining for about 150 years. Photo by: Doc Searls / Flickr CC

Nov. 14, 2024

Where once we dug deep for fossil fuels, today, we dig even deeper for critical minerals. They may be different resources, but their extraction will leave a similar scar on the land, particularly for Indigenous communities who are once again at the forefront of resource extraction’s environmental and cultural toll.

Recent news highlights growing resistance from Indigenous communities worldwide as the global push for energy transition minerals clashes with local rights and ecosystems.

13/11/24
Author: 
Andrew Kurjata
The Site C dam pictured on Wednesday. (B.C. Hydro)

Nov. 8, 2024

Generating power but flooding land loved by locals

After 11 weeks, the Site C dam reservoir in northeastern B.C. is now fully filled.

B.C. Hydro announced the process was complete on Nov. 7, having started in August.

One electricity generating unit has already started feeding into B.C.'s power grid, and another five are set to come online between now and the fall of 2025, increasing the province's power production capacity by an estimated eight per cent.

23/10/24
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
LNG Canada, a joint venture by Shell, PetroChina and other foreign firms, has nearly completed its terminal in Kitimat, BC. Photo via LNG Canada.

Oct. 23, 2024

Both major BC parties backed the methane boom. Two new Green MLAs might change the equation.

16/10/24
Author: 
Emiko Newman and Omri Haiven
Climate change needs to be front and centre when British Columbians head to the polls.TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay

Oct. 12, 2024

British Columbia's next government must take real action on the climate emergency

On October 19, British Columbians will head to the polls. 

Far too often, election debates pit climate action and affordability solutions against each other. But nothing could be further from the truth – the climate crisis is an affordability issue, and the failure to act on climate is costing us dearly. Taking action now to confront the climate crisis can simultaneously improve people’s economic and employment security. 

30/09/24
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Photo via Kateryna Babaieva on Pexels.

Sept. 30, 2024

There is a tendency in Canada to overlook the fact that Indigenous peoples are overwhelmingly working class.

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a time not only to reflect on the genocide committed by the Canadian state against Indigenous peoples but also to think critically about the work of reconciliation in the present and future. 

30/09/24
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
The BC Conservatives could be challenged on social media history, says a UBC political science professor. Collage by Tyee staff.

Sept. 25, 2024

Candidates have faced criticism for ‘jokes’ about white nationalism and links to an extremist German politician’s speech.

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