Groups have documented the logging of old growth trees in at-risk areas proposed for deferral
Two years into a three-year process to defer the logging of some of B.C.'s grandest trees in its most ecologically diverse wilderness so that forestry stewardship could undergo a vast transformation, First Nations and conservationists are decrying a lack of progress and transparency.
The BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, #Justice for Jared, The Union of BC Indian Chiefs and the family of Haida Elder Jimmie Johannesson
Police killings, in general, have to end. Since a high percentage of those killed (and injured) are Indigenous people and others of non-European lineage, the specific aims outlined below are way overdue. Please take a look, give it some thought, and do what you can. And please forward this widely.
By focusing on reciprocity and the common good—both for the community and the environment—sea gardening created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse.
The projected cost of the contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline spanning northern British Columbia has jumped 70 per cent to $11.2 billion in the wake of a freshly inked deal between operator TC Energy Corp. and the group building a liquified natural gas terminal on the West Coast.
The fact is that the soul-saving missionaries believed the main job of their "educational" institutions was to "get the Indian out of the child." That cannot be divorced from the simultaneous imperialist project of getting "the Indian" off the land. And the shallowness, if not blatant hypocrisy, of the Papal apology cannot be divorced from the many current battles occurring today over pushing Indigenous peoples off their lands to make way for oil/gas wells, pipelines, mines, highways, etc. etc. etc.
