The long-awaited judgment in Yahey v British Columbia (2021 BCSC 1287), a treaty infringement challenge brought by Blueberry River First Nation, has been widely hailed by legal scholars as a groundbreaking precedent with sweeping implications for treaty rights and resource extraction in northeastern B.C. and beyond.
The Run for FUNds fundraiser organized by RAVEN supporters, Kayci Lesosky and Sarah Legg, is fast approaching! On April 2, 2022 Kayci and Sarah are inviting everyone to come out to a community fun run at Elk Lake provincial park in Victoria. Their goal: to bring awareness to the Wild Salmon campaign, supporting Indigenous Nations to rid the Discovery Islands of dangerous fish farms once and for all.
Last year, Pro Bono Students Canada helped RAVEN by looking at the legal precedents that have been set by cases our community has fundraised for and supported. Focusing on the specific achievements of Gitxaala v. Canada — the legal victory over the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline — student legal researchers went looking for new legal cases that had cited Gitxaala. Check out this infographic illustrating the findings.
Cohosted by Stop Ecocide Canada and RAVEN, this webinar looked at Environmental Racism: A Story of Colonization and Ecocide. Speakers included Chief Roland Willson and Tamara Lorincz
Levin Chamberlain is RAVEN’s newest Grant Writer and Project Coordinator Read his interview to learn how Levin ended up at RAVEN what inspires him to stand up for Indigenous sovereignty and more!
In the Busting the Fossil Fuel Corridor webinar, hosted by The West Coast Climate Action Network in partnership with RAVEN, we were joined by three Indigenous Land protectors whose voices and stories showed us just how much impact we can have when we work as a collective and hold on to hope of a cleaner future.
As world leaders gather at COP26 to negotiate in the face of the deadly reality of climate change, Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs from Gidimt’en clan have set up a blockade to prevent drilling beneath a salmon-bearing river.
Join all or any part of this 4-day, family-friendly, broad-based citizen’s walk (or roll) over…
Coldwater First Nation are Interior Salish people who belong to the Nlaka’pamux Nation. They are connected…
The 23rd edition of Calablast Tuesday is back and this time we’re currating a night…
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