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A third strike against climate action and Indigenous rights
As Earth Day approaches, Canada faces a difficult but necessary question: What is the value…
Honouring Women in Water Protection: An Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Perspective
Every year on World Water Day, we are invited to pause and reflect on the…
Re-storying Justice Episode 3: Reimagining Conservation through Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas
In episode 3 of Re-Storying Justice, RAVEN talks with KJ England, Planner and Consultant for…
The Law is Connected: New Submissions to the Federal Court of Appeal about UNDRIP
Gitxaała Nation’s recent decision in the BC Court of Appeal (BCCA) in Gitxaala v. British…
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…
Who is Responsible for the Climate Crisis? How the Courts are Weighing In (and what’s next for Canada)
As our futures unfold alongside wildfires scorching millions of hectares of land, intensifying flooding on…
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…
Exacerbating the Mercury Crisis: No More Permits on Grassy Narrows Territory
Grassy Narrows First Nation is going toe to toe with Kinross Gold, a mining company…
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…
Of salmon and ice: Honouring the bond between glaciers and sockeye.
This World Water Day, we are celebrating the link between glaciers and sockeye salmon —…
