Defend the Treaties

Monsters of Injustice: Treaty Negotiator from Beyond the Grave

By RAVEN / October 31, 2024 / Comments Off on Monsters of Injustice: Treaty Negotiator from Beyond the Grave

The Treaty Negotiator from Beyond the Grave is still turning up across our legal systems and having his point of view on Treaties upheld. The Numbered Treaties were negotiated by settlers, and while they said they “negotiated” the way the processes generally went was like this: RAVEN has three campaigns that take place in Numbered…

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Monsters of Injustice: The Creature from the Oil Sands

By RAVEN / October 17, 2024 / Comments Off on Monsters of Injustice: The Creature from the Oil Sands

Over millions and millions of years, layers of plant, animal, and – yes – dinosaur matter have been decomposing. The result? A black sludge that sits beneath the Earth’s surface, decomposing further and further into the land. It was sustainably used by First Nations before colonialism and the sludge underneath the surface was largely undisturbed…

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Monsters of Injustice: The Ghoul of Free Market Regulation

By RAVEN / October 3, 2024 / Comments Off on Monsters of Injustice: The Ghoul of Free Market Regulation

Terrified by the thought of an economy with no rules? With only supply and demand to control? Without a thought to environmental or human rights regulation? So are we. We are haunted every day by the Ghoul of Free Market Regulation.  Free markets refer to economies in which there is no government control or intervention…

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Beaver Lake Cree Nation Comprehensive Treaty Claim Updates!

By Leslie Anne St. Amour / September 12, 2024 / Comments Off on Beaver Lake Cree Nation Comprehensive Treaty Claim Updates!

We are coming to you today with a variety of important and exciting legal case updates for Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Treaty No. 6. As you likely read in our email to you this week, the Beaver Lake Cree Nation has received a decision from the Alberta Court of the King’s Bench regarding their Advanced…

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Image of coastal oil refinery with smoke coming out of a chimney, meant to illustrate pollution caused from fossil fuel industry.

Hot take: 6300% FALSE: Canada takes gaslighting to a whole new level

By RAVEN / January 31, 2024 / Comments Off on Hot take: 6300% FALSE: Canada takes gaslighting to a whole new level

What is Gaslighting? It’s that workmate who, when called out on their racist behaviour, retorts, “You’re being too sensitive: this has NOTHING to do with race.” It’s that casual date who shows up half an hour late to dinner then, when you tell them you’re upset about it, says you’re being ‘clingy’.  Or, it’s that…

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Trick or Treaty? An Update on the Beaver Lake Cree Nation Campaign

By RAVEN / October 31, 2022 / Comments Off on Trick or Treaty? An Update on the Beaver Lake Cree Nation Campaign

When Beaver Lake Cree Nation declared victory in the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) last March, we didn’t think we’d be telling you this. But: despite a win in the highest court in the land… Beaver Lake Cree Nation (BLCN) is back in court and having to prove, yet again, that they are indeed unable to afford to pay the full cost of its Defend the Treaties trial.

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Look ma, no pipelines! Indigenous power is coming from renewables 

By Andrea Palframan / March 22, 2022 /

Saddling Indigenous communities with stranded assets — on top of climate disaster and desecrated lands — is no way to set relationships right. 

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A landmark Supreme Court victory for Beaver Lake Cree Nation

By Andrea Palframan / March 18, 2022 / Comments Off on A landmark Supreme Court victory for Beaver Lake Cree Nation

Beaver Lake Cree set powerful precedent for Indigenous access to justice in Canada’s Supreme Court.

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Shine Bootcamp raises another 5K for Beaver Lake Cree Nation!

By Karissa Chandrakate / November 22, 2021 / Comments Off on Shine Bootcamp raises another 5K for Beaver Lake Cree Nation!

We would like to give a BIG thank you to Shine Bootcamp for raising $$2,769 for Beaver Lake Cree Nation, which was DOUBLED to $5,538! Back in March this year, they raised another $5000 for BLCN, which totals over 10K in donations this year! Shine Bootcamp is a startup organization that provides intensive training for women wanting to…

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VIDEO: Inside the rarified world of Advance Costs

By Jamie-Leigh Gonzales / November 12, 2021 / Comments Off on VIDEO: Inside the rarified world of Advance Costs

Well that was powerful. On the Wednesday following Beaver Lake Cree Nation’s Supreme Court hearing, we heard about the significance of Advance Cost Orders in Aboriginal title and Treaty rights cases. Karey Brooks, lead counsel for Beaver Lake Cree Nation, gave us a deeper look at the events leading up to last week’s Supreme Court…

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