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VIFF to screen RAVEN’s Heiltsuk film at Pacific Cinemateque October 8

By Andrea Palframan | September 23, 2019

This special screening features two films that delve into Indigenous Nations’ relationships with the respective…

On Strike for the Climate: At Work for the Future

By Andrea Palframan | September 20, 2019

The anticipation is building: in city after city, around the world, millions of people are…

Together against TMX: First Nations launch new round of legal challenges

By Andrea Palframan | September 18, 2019

Watch the video from the press conference in which First Nations officially launched their appeals…

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By Andrea Palframan | September 18, 2019

by Mark Gauti, T’Sou-ke Nation  This image was created by Mark Gauti and represents Raven…

Another barrier to TMX, brought to you by Indigenous Nations

By Andrea Palframan | September 18, 2019

In a victory for the Squamish Nation — and a setback to TMX — on September 17,…

Game-changing: The Bitumen Reference Case

By Andrea Palframan | September 13, 2019

Who gets to regulate the flow of bitumen through boundary-traversing pipelines: the province or the…

Sentencing of Kirby Takes Place in Bella Bella, an Unprecedented Assertion of Indigenous Law

By Andrea Palframan | September 12, 2019

In October, 2016 a tug without a certified pilot ran aground and spilled over 110,000…

Tsilhqot’in win injunction: Taseko drilling and road building HALTED pending civil case

By Andrea Palframan | September 9, 2019

Victory!  In what has been a decade’s long fight to stop mining at Teztan Biny,…

Now is the time to Pull Together

By Andrea Palframan | September 4, 2019

On September 3, 2019, the Federal Court of Appeal tossed out all non-Indigenous cases challenging…

Magnificent Peel Watershed protected for future generations

By Andrea Palframan | August 29, 2019

After 15 years of court challenges that went all the way to the Supreme Court,…

Media Misinformation and the price of doing business

By Andrea Palframan | August 21, 2019

On August 20, the Vancouver Sun announced that “A B.C. judge has ruled that close…

The Legal Breakdown of Indigenous Rights and the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

By Andrea Palframan | August 18, 2019

What you need to know about the legality around Indigenous rights and the Trans Mountain…