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Day of Action for a Just Transition: Indigenous Nations leading the way to renewables

By Andrea Palframan | March 10, 2022

The world is embroiled in another war powered by oil. Putin’s motives for invading Ukraine…

Water is life: a final chapter for Pull Together

By RAVEN | March 9, 2022

Water is life. That’s the organizing principle that drew so many of us together to…

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RAVEN Champions of February 2022

By Jamie-Leigh Gonzales | March 7, 2022

We are so happy to see our list of RAVEN champions continually grow! Learn more about our February business supporters.

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Join Run for FUNds for Wild Salmon

By Jamie-Leigh Gonzales | March 2, 2022

The Run for FUNds fundraiser organized by RAVEN supporters, Kayci Lesosky and Sarah Legg, is fast approaching! On April 2, 2022 Kayci and Sarah are inviting everyone to come out to a community fun run at Elk Lake provincial park in Victoria. Their goal: to bring awareness to the Wild Salmon campaign, supporting Indigenous Nations to rid the Discovery Islands of dangerous fish farms once and for all. 

VIDEO: Treaty People’s Briefing

By Andrea Palframan | March 2, 2022

A video released by Mining Injustice powerfully frames the dilemma Neskantaga and neighbouring Anishinaabe Nations…

Heiltsuk decry DFO’s unilateral closure of vital SOK herring roe fishery

By Andrea Palframan | March 1, 2022

Spring is normally the time when mariners from Heiltsuk Nation head out on the water…

PETITION: Canada — Don’t smother the Breathing Lands

By RAVEN | March 1, 2022

At the end of 2021, RAVEN launched a new campaign to support Neskantaga Nation’s Free,…

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Thank you to RAVEN business champions

By Jamie-Leigh Gonzales | February 28, 2022

Here at RAVEN, we are so grateful for all our donors and we’d like to show our appreciation for some of the businesses that have been supporting us the last few months.

Don’t just sit there. Organize! Festival Afloat wants YOU

By Andrea Palframan | February 26, 2022

 Last year, RAVEN hosted a series of fundraising concerts from Montreal to Vancouver. Thousands of…

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VIDEO: DJ O Show says diversity makes beautiful music

By Andrea Palframan | February 25, 2022

In celebration of Black History Month, we caught up with DJ O Show. She’s a…

Infographic: The Ecosystem of Kelp, the life cycle of a legal precedent

By Jamie-Leigh Gonzales | February 18, 2022

Last year, Pro Bono Students Canada helped RAVEN by looking at the legal precedents that have been set by cases our community has fundraised for and supported. Focusing on the specific achievements of Gitxaala v. Canada —  the legal victory over the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline — student legal researchers went looking for new legal cases that had cited Gitxaala. Check out this infographic illustrating the findings.

#365 Indigenous: Louis Riel doesn’t need exoneration. Canada does. 

By Andrea Palframan | February 17, 2022

In 2020, Canada was seriously considering pardoning Louis Riel – just in time for the 135th anniversary of his killing. But Métis leaders are resisting the drive.