Overturning racist policies: Podcast with RAVEN’s Ana Simeon
The murder of George Floyd has sparked a global movements to overturn racist policies and institutions. Canada has its own history with racism embodied in the colonial agenda to dispossess First Nations of their inherent rights and title over the land. In Episode 9 of the Awake in Relationship podcast, our Fundraising Campaigns Director, Ana... Read More
Reclamation of Governance: Short Film on Heiltsuk’s Constitution
Earlier this year, we witnessed the historic Big House opening on Heiltsuk territory. During a four day potlach ceremony, totem poles were raised that tell the story of who the Heiltsuk are and where they are going. Guided by 14,000 years of history, ancestral laws, memory and tradition, the Heiltsuk are deeply committed to revitalizing... Read More
Winners announced: essays by young scholars explore Indigenous law, environmental planning
Photo by Robin Munshaw We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2020 Harmony Environmental Essay Prize for Young Scholars. Please meet our winners and read their carefully researched papers: First Place – Da Chen “Sharing of the Dish: The Dish with One Spoon and Environmental Planning in Toronto” Through key informant interviews,... Read More
Folk that Pipeline Raises $10K for First Nations to stop TMX
Over 1000+ people signed up for last night’s “Folk The Pipeline” festival. This incredible community raised over $10k to ignite the next phase of support for Indigenous legal action against Trans Mountain. With stellar sets by Dan Mangan, The Wilds and Luke Wallace, we came together with warmth and solidarity to renew our commitments to... Read More
Water is Life: Coldwater steps up to protect aquifer
The Legal Battle against Trans Mountain Expansion Project Continues: Coldwater Perseveres to Protect Drinking Water On July 2nd, 2020, our community watched in dismay as the legal challenges of the Squamish Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Coldwater Indian Band were pushed aside; Nations pressing for their Section 35 rights were denied leave to appeal by the... Read More
A volcano brewing beneath Canada
Was it only two years ago that Canada promised to develop legislation to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? Just three years since Prime Minister Trudeau declared that no relationship was more important to this country than the one with Indigenous Peoples? And has it really been five years since people... Read More
Orca soundings and the seeds of regeneration
This piece comes from a talk given at the opening of “Against the Current”, an art exhibit featuring work by Salish Sea artists in celebration of orca culture. Learn more about the Orca Soundings project at https://orcasoundings.org. Moby Dick is a book that presents one of the most pure villains in literature: Ahab, the captain... Read More
Wet’suwet’en decry Coastal Gas Link permit violations
As their beleaguered fracked gas pipeline slowly snakes its way across northern British Columbia, Coastal Gas Link has been caught in another act of environmental destruction. This time, CGL was caught building unpermitted roads and workcamps, and clearing protected wetlands. The violations are in clear contravention of BC’s environmental regulations as well as the company’s... Read More
Latest study shows that mercury exposure causes premature mortality in the Grassy Narrows First Nation community
Since the 1960s, the Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation) has lived with the consequences of one of the worst environmental disasters in Canadian history. The community’s livelihood, major food source, and health were devastated by the uncontrolled spill of approximately 22,000 pounds of mercury from a chlor-alkali plant in Dryden, Ontario. The toxins... Read More
