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HuffPost Canada
February 16, 2018
All nine community water systems on Lytton First Nation land in British Columbia have been under boil water advisories at one time or another. Now the ... Right now," Assembly of First Nations Manitoba regional chief Kevin Hart said at a Vancouver symposium, Reconciliation through Sustainable WaterÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
February 16, 2018
... authorities currently list about 200 water advisories, which includes boil-water and do-not-consume notices. rshore@postmedia.com ÷ First Nations ÷ Technology ÷ Accused Sechelt killer had a 'love-hate' relationship with his mother, stepfather... Police investigating groping of 12 year old in Vancouverà...
Vancouver Sun
February 15, 2018
The environmental and First Nations rights movements are evolving quickly as social media provides new and more democratic spaces for influence and organization. Vancouver Sun and Province environment reporter Larry Pynn will moderate presentations and an audience-involved discussion on theÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
February 15, 2018
Federal Justice Minister and Vancouver Granville MP Jody Wilson-Raybould (above) has made 19 appointments to date this year to the B.C. Supreme ... Each province provides its own legal administration, and the dysfunction and systemic problems plaguing First Nations cannot be remedied by federal fiatÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 8, 2018
Hundreds of people, including elders, community leaders, educators and care providers, are in Vancouver to talk about how best to meet those mental health and wellness needs at the first conference of its kind hosted by the B.C. First Nations Health Authority. The two-day agenda is packed with sessionsÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 7, 2018
In a conference room at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, more than 200 people sat around tables with white linen napkins and jugs topped with ice water on Tuesday morning. Speaking from the podium at the front of the room, Kevin Hart reminded everyone of another reality in his home province of ManitobaÃÂ ...
CTV News
January 23, 2018
Leaders from several B.C. First Nations took to the water on Sunday to serve an eviction notice to the province's largest producer of farmed fish. Elders and heredity chiefs from six different nations boarded boats just off the coast of Port Hardy, B.C. to tell Marine Harvest to pack up and leave. They believeÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
December 31, 1999
The ocean is an integral part of our coastal First Nations cultures, societies and economy. An oil spill in our territorial waters, which includes all of the North and Central coast and Haida Gwaii, would be catastrophic. We understand that large-vessel shipping is essential for our modern economy. Fossil fuelÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
Victoria police appeal for information about missing First Nations youths. Officers say ... Police in Victoria are asking for tips in locating two First Nations youth who they are worried about. Officers say Fredrick Daniels, 15, was last seen near the 2100-block of Vancouver Street on Feb. 7. They are alsoÃÂ ...
CTV Vancouver Island
December 4, 2017
A proposal to bring a floating liquefied natural gas plant to the Saanich Inlet has been scrapped two years after talks began on the project. Steelhead LNG announced the decision in a news release Monday, saying it would no longer be building the plant on Malahat Nation-owned land in Bamberton.
CTV News
December 4, 2017
Chapman, a hereditary chief from the Skawahlook First Nation in the Chilliwack-Hope area, said the fires and floods damaged many Indigenous communities. Homes were burned in the Boston Flats residential area in Ashcroft and First Nations firefighters in the Chilcotin region defied evacuation orders to ...
Vancouver Sun
December 3, 2017
Isaac, whose father is 'Namgis and mother is Tlowitsis — two of the 17 Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations of northern Vancouver Island and the nearby ... Isaac himself says he has never been treated badly at home in Alert Bay because of his work, even as the 'Namgis First Nation has presented one of the ...
gulfnews.com
December 3, 2017
Vancouver is also home to the highest density of First Nations cultures. The city itself stands on the traditional lands of three tribes, while dozens of other groups have ties to the area. In total, almost a third of all Canadian First Nations are found in BC, resulting in a dizzying wealth of cultures, customs and ...
MetroNews Canada
December 2, 2017
BELLA BELLA, B.C. — A British Columbia First Nation is breathing a sigh of relief as a barge carrying millions of litres of fuel was removed from its harbour on the central coast. The barge broke away from a U.S.-registered tugboat, the Jake Shearer, southwest of Bella Bella last Sunday. Heiltsuk Chief ...
Vancouver Sun
December 1, 2017
Karen Ogen-Toews, past chief of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, said the collapse of Pacific NorthWest LNG was a wake-up call for the First Nations LNG ... There's also no love lost between the Eagle Spirit pipeline project, backed by 30 First Nations and the Aquilini Investment Group based in Vancouver, ...
CTV Vancouver Island
November 26, 2017
Rising water levels forced more than a dozen people out of their homes on the Tseshaht First Nation over the weekend. Five properties were evacuated and 18 homes were placed on alert. People with medical conditions, the elderly and kids were asked to leave as a precaution.
CBC.ca
November 24, 2017
Poets wanted: Vancouver seeks nominations for poet laureate from local First Nations ... Thomas is a Mi'kmaw poet with roots in the Lennox Island First Nation in Prince Edward Island. She has a master's degree in social anthropology and works as an Indigenous supports advisor at Nova Scotia ...
CTV News
November 23, 2017
A First Nation is speaking out against a man seen in Snapchat videos laughing and high-fiving a friend after they shot a deer, slit its throat and watched it bleed out on a reserve near Campbell River. The shooting took place on the Quinsam reserve last Friday and the videos were made public earlier this ...
Straight.com
November 21, 2017
As part of City of Vancouver's role as a City of Reconciliation, the mandate of the forthcoming term (to start in 2018) will concentrate on raising the profile of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh poetry. The selected poet laureate will do so by developing a literary project and through readings at civic ...
Vancouver Sun
November 2, 2017
Horgan has said his government will consult with local First Nations, gather more information, and make a decision on whether to cancel the ...
Vancouver Sun
November 1, 2017
Facebook photos depict members of the Sts'ailes First Nation ... He said there is no legal First Nations catch of sturgeon in the lower Fraser, ...
Vancouver Sun
October 25, 2017
Robert Phillips, political executive for the First nations Summit ... Across Metro Vancouver, the Aboriginal population topped 61,455, according ...
Vancouver Sun
October 23, 2017
First Nations canoes greet the Canada C3 icebreaker Polar Prince on Monday morning as it enters the Port of Vancouver. ... of the Musqueam First Nation shouted up from one canoe alongside the ship's starboard side.
Vancouver Sun
October 19, 2017
First Nations seeking the removal of ocean-based salmon farms in their ... the Fisheries and Oceans office in downtown Vancouver on Aug.
CTV Vancouver Island
October 17, 2017
First Nations occupying several fish farms off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island say tensions are rising after protesters were served with ...
CBC.ca
October 17, 2017
B.C. First Nation declares local ban on moose hunt ... While some hunters criticized the move, local First Nations say the closures don't go far ...
CTV News
October 15, 2017
Police investigating deadly stabbing in East Vancouver ... Harris said family and other members of the First Nation are heartbroken over the ...
Vancouver Sun
October 14, 2017
The Siwash Rock in Vancouver's Stanley Park could be renamed if First Nations agree its name is disrespectful to Aboriginal Peoples.
Vancouver Courier
October 12, 2017
Vancouver Park Board Wednesday night approved a motion to consult with the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations on ...
CTV News
October 2, 2017
VANCOUVER - Canada's decision to approve an expansion for the Trans ... Earlier Monday, Chief Ian Campbell of the Squamish First Nation ...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
Chief Ian Campbell of the Squamish First Nation says the building should make ... First Nations recall the land where the building now sits as a ...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
Organizers of a Vancouver race won't be handing out First Nations "inspired" ... Allison Beardsworth, originally from the Dene First Nation in the ...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
Vancouver Park Board votes unanimously to work with First Nations to ... of years," said Ian Campbell, chief of the Squamish First Nation.
Vancouver Sun
August 22, 2017
Its pledge to back First Nations rights against Kinder Morgan's Trans ... Those are hot-topic items for Metro Vancouver residents, as well as keyÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
August 10, 2017
... First Nation is claiming it was not properly consulted on the project. ... at a news conference in Vancouver by Environment Minister George Heyman ... “He is a living example of modern First Nations law in Canada,” said EbyÃÂ ...
MetroNews Canada
August 7, 2017
DUNCAN, B.C. — In a tree-nestled First Nation community on Vancouver Island, forestry and farming used to be the major industries that keptÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
July 30, 2017
VANCOUVER — First Nations in the path of British Columbia's forests ... Chief Joe Alphonse of the Tl'etinqox First Nation said he was amongÃÂ ...
BBC News
July 29, 2017
Vancouver is holding its first Indigenous Fashion Week (VIFW), spotlighting designs by Canada's aboriginal peoples. Almost 60 First NationsÃÂ ...
MetroNews Canada
December 31, 1999
“We have no problem hunting for food,” said Douglas Neasloss, the elected chief of Klemtu and a member of Coastal First Nations. “That'sÃÂ ...
Wiarton Echo
March 27, 2017
Born in 1933, Berger received his real legal education in Vancouver from Tom Hurley, a hard-drinking loquacious Irish lawyer known for his acumen, his support of the underdog, and his love of boxing.
Times Colonist
March 27, 2017
In a course in Pacific history that I teach, University of Victoria undergraduate students are hot on the trail of a set of poles that once stood alongside a monument dedicated to George Vancouver in Kihei, Maui. Only the foundations of ... First ...
County Weekly News
March 27, 2017
Born in 1933, Berger received his real legal education in Vancouver from Tom Hurley, a hard-drinking loquacious Irish lawyer known for his acumen, his support of the underdog, and his love of boxing.
CHEK
March 27, 2017
... it is the earliest point in a project development that a BC First Nations community has voted to approve an LNG facility or pipeline project.
CHEK
March 27, 2017
... it is the earliest point in a project development that a BC First Nations community has voted to approve an LNG facility or pipeline project.
CTV Vancouver Island
March 27, 2017
DND recently notified local first nations it no longer has an operational need for the property. Mayor Carol Hamilton and Songhees Chief Ron Sam will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday afternoon.
CTV Vancouver Island
March 27, 2017
DND recently notified local first nations it no longer has an operational need for the property. Mayor Carol Hamilton and Songhees Chief Ron Sam will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday afternoon.
Vancouver Sun
March 27, 2017
VANCOUVER - Saskatchewan needed innovative ways to continue providing rural bus service instead of gutting it altogether, says an advocate for a British Columbia First Nation that fought for 10 years to get transportation along a route where women ...
Vancouver Sun
March 27, 2017
VANCOUVER - Saskatchewan needed innovative ways to continue providing rural bus service instead of gutting it altogether, says an advocate for a British Columbia First Nation that fought for 10 years to get transportation along a route where women ...
The Province
March 25, 2017
Once he reached a certain age, a point in life when the inescapable reality of mortality sunk in, Dr. Marc Lindy decided he'd like to have a brass band mark hisÃÂ ...
The Province
March 25, 2017
Once he reached a certain age, a point in life when the inescapable reality of mortality sunk in, Dr. Marc Lindy decided he'd like to have a brass band mark hisÃÂ ...
