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A person at a demonstration in solidarity with the Neskantaga First Nation, where residents were evacuated over tainted water, outside Queen’s Park in Toronto in November 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Carlos Osorio

Canada’s proposed clean water act needs stronger protections for Indigenous communities

Kerry Black, University of Calgary; Irving Leblanc; Kathleen Padulo, and Linda Debassige

In its current form, safe drinking water legislation would weaken key legal provisions, particularly those related to rights and governance for First Nations.
Fred Ngusilo, left, a member of the Ogiek community, works with a relative to sift through the ruins of their grandfather’s house in the Mau forest, destroyed by Kenyan police. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

Efforts to combat climate change often exclude Indigenous people – and they may not have any recourse

Buket Altınçelep, UMass Boston

Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.
Critics of the project say Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization must seek the free, prior and informed consent of all affected First Nations. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

Ontario’s proposed nuclear waste repository must obtain consent from all affected First Nations

Larissa Speak, Lakehead University; John Sinclair, University of Manitoba, and Warren Bernauer, University of Manitoba

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has proposed building a nuclear waste repository at a site in northern Ontario. But nearby First Nations say they weren’t consulted.
Indigenous leadership, community members and allies of Treaty 8 territory of northeast B.C. converge on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to protest Site C hydroelectric dam projecton in 2016. The dam is located on BlueBerry First Nation territory. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

What a landmark court victory for B.C. First Nation means for Indigenous rights and resource development

Giuseppe Amatulli, Durham University

Is this decision a real ‘bombshell,’ as it has been depicted? Or does it represent an important step towards the implementation of UNDRIP within provincial and federal legal framework?
Eabametoong First Nation (Fort Hope), seen here in 2012, is one of the communities located near the proposed Ring of Fire development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Ottawa steps into ‘Ring of Fire’ debate with Doug Ford

Dayna Nadine Scott, York University, Canada

Ontario’s approach to assessing the environmental impacts of mining in the Ring of Fire region couldn’t address concerns about the cumulative consequences of development.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, centre left, joins a coalition of youth climate leaders and environmental groups during a climate strike outside the United Nations, Aug. 30, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

#Fridaysforfuture: When youth push the environmental movement towards climate justice

Joe Curnow, University of Manitoba

A research team of youth climate activists and academics is examining how environmentalists learn about solidarity and justice.
B.C. green-lighted an exploration permit to a mining company, despite the fact that plans for a mine were rejected both federally and by the Tsilhqot’in National Government. (Garth Lenz/ Tsilhqot’in National Government)

Tsilhqot’in blockade points to failures of justice impeding reconciliation in Canada

Justine Townsend, University of Guelph; Faisal Moola, University of Guelph, and Megan Youdelis, University of Guelph

Dasiqox Tribal Park offers a powerful example of what true reconciliation can mean for Canada when Indigenous peoples and their rights are respected and upheld.

Related Topics

  1. First Nations
  2. Indigenous
  3. Indigenous land rights
  4. Indigenous lands
  5. Indigenous rights
  6. Mining
  7. Nuclear
  8. Ontario
  9. Ring of Fire
  10. UNDRIP

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