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What We Know to Be True: Unpacking the Recent DRIPA Decision
We’ve been hearing a lot of conflicting information lately when it comes to the Declaration…
Appeals on Appeals Part 2: An In-depth Addition on Kebaowek First Nation’s Arguments
Earlier this month, we put out a blog about the appeal by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories…
tu bet’a ts’ena – With Water We Live: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s Water Policy
Water is not a commodity. Water is a spirit, a living thing. Water sustains life…
Motion to Strike: Pre-Court Event with Chiefs from the Likhts’amisyu Clan
On August 21st, a group of Wet’suwet’en Chiefs from the Likhts’amisyu Clan went to court…
Re-Storying Justice: Land, Law, and Climate Justice
Episode 1: Land, Law, and Climate Justice Welcome to Re-Storying Justice. A RAVEN video-podcast series…
Canada continues to shirk responsibility for real climate action with another Motion to Strike on Wet’suwet’en House group’s legal challenge
Let’s Get up to Speed In February 2020, two Wet’suwet’en House groups of the Likhts’amisyu…
Appeals on Appeals: Kebaowek First Nation and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Submit Written Arguments Over UNDRIP Case
A year has passed since Kebaowek First Nation (Kebaowek) went to Federal Court to challenge…
Tŝilhqot’in Nation Wins with Consent, Concluding a Decades-Long Battle over Mining
The staff at RAVEN are thrilled to hear that the Tŝilhqot’in Nation has signed the…
Shifting Grounds Under Free Mining: B.C.’s new mineral claims framework
In March 2025, the Government of B.C. released a new framework for mineral tenures as…
Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nation’s Aboriginal Title Claim: Myth vs Fact
Let’s dispel some myths about Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nation’s (MMFN) legal case for Aboriginal title. Legal…
Kebaowek’s Win at the Federal Court is being Appealed: What does it mean for UNDRIP in Canada?
Kebaowek First Nation has campaigned against a nuclear waste facility on their territory for years….
Cedar and Frog: Mowachaht-Muchalaht Seeks Aboriginal Title for Healthy Forests
We want to take a minute to tell you an important story. Read on to…
Title and Stewardship for Submerged Lands
For people living on Vancouver Island, and anyone living on the coast, we are accustomed…
Restoring Reciprocal Relationships in Forest Management
Standing on an alpine meadow on Vancouver Island in 1846, you’d be faced with a…
World Day of Social Justice: Bridging the Gaps for Indigenous and Environmental Justice
February 20th is the World Day of Social Justice, a day established in 2007 by…
What’s Really at Stake? The Possible Outcomes and Implications for Indigenous Rights in B.C. and Canada
Gitxaała Nation is going to the B.C. Court of Appeal to challenge the lower court’s…
Gitxaała Goes to Court of Appeal: Ensuring B.C.’s DRIPA has Legal Teeth
On January 20th, 2025, Gitxaała Nation is going to the BC Court of Appeal to…
Building a Movement: 15 Years of RAVEN
Fifteen years ago, RAVEN took flight. Together with Indigenous Nations, community organizers, and a growing…
Say Goodbye to “Take It or Leave It” – Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan’s Case Analysis at the Supreme Court of Canada
Introduction The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) recently released a decision in Quebec (Attorney General)…
Working to Preserve: Environmental Racism and Indigenous Resilience in Canada
We are seeing something powerful across Canada: people are coming together to challenge injustice, working…
Wolastoqey Nation’s Big Next Step in Aboriginal Title, and What That Means for Private Property
The Court of King’s Bench in New Brunswick released a decision regarding the Crown and…
