An academic known for her incredibly racist, colonialist views on Canada's residential school system was arrested for trespassing at the University of Lethbridge over the weekend.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/frances-widdowson-university-of-lethbridge-9.7180156
“While Ottawa sleeps, Alberta's first inhabitants are doing everything we can to save Confederation. ... We shall never allow our treaties to be broken. ... We are standing up for our treaties, for our people and for the land that is all under threat through this referendum effort.”
> First Nations leaders in B.C. are urging B.C. NDP MLAs to reject Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend some sections of the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), as the government prepares to bring the proposal forward as a confidence vote.
First Nations leaders in B.C. are urging B.C. NDP MLAs to reject Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend some sections of the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), as the government prepares to bring the proposal forward as a confidence vote.
'The world should see this', say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers
"For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia's current activities in the far south eastern corner of the republic, South Papua province, surpass all."
a critique of the 100th anniversary history of the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
by Dr Martin Fisher, a senior lecturer above the bar at the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, University of Canterbury.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/a-more-critical-history-of-forest-bird/
it's hard to overstate how much i detest the 3-term-majority Doug-Ford-led conservative government of Ontario 🤬
The Ontario government has quietly given itself the power to override archaeological protections on development sites.
It's a shift that, for the first time, places millennia-old Indigenous history under direct political control & raises the alarm among experts & First Nations that cultural & burial sites could be erased in the name of economic growth.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-bill5-heritage-act-archaeology-indigenous-burial-9.6984496
In Ontario, where ancient Indigenous burial grounds and village sites lie beneath rapidly expanding suburbs, the government has granted itself powers to bypass archaeological protections, raising fears that centuries of history could be lost with the stroke of a minister’s pen.
YESSSS.
"A federal judge has sided with two First Nations in Manitoba and one in Ontario that sued the Canadian government over its duty to provide them with safe housing and clean drinking water, in separate rulings delivered Friday."
A federal judge has sided with two First Nations in Manitoba and one in Ontario that sued the Canadian government over its duty to provide them with safe housing and clean drinking water, in separate rulings delivered Friday.
"The University of Auckland has abandoned its compulsory introductory paper on the Treaty of Waitangi.
Emeritus Professor Alison Jones is one of those who led the development of the university’s first-year courses.
She writes here that the decision is politically-motivated and a betrayal of academic freedom."
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/a-betrayal-of-academic-freedom/
#NZ #AcademicFreedom #ColonialistNonsense #HonourTheTreaty #ToituTeTiriti
"Like a thief in the night, this [NZ conservative coalition] government comes through with this legislation that will raupatu (confiscate), the biggest raupatu that Māori will suffer, to our mana takutai moana - because what was the issue? What was the problem that this government is seeking to change and improve?"
— Green MP Hūhana Lyndon
A-Dub 🥝
A-Dub 🥝