Winnipeg Free Press March 15, 2008

Everybody hates people who say “I told you so!” when they prove to be right about something. And most people who have any sense never ever say “I told you so!” (Keep reading…)

March 5, 2008 Nationhttp://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41469

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Mar 5 (IPS) - Algonquin community leader Robert Lovelace had never been charged with an offence, but when a uranium company began prospecting for radioactive ore on unceded native land without engaging in consultation, he decided to take action, organising a non-violent blockade. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut
by Peter Kulchyski
University of Manitoba Press, 2005. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

The application of treaty rights as a legal strategy implemented by the First Nations themselves must be the key focus in efforts to challenge Big Oil in Alberta. Resources and effort must be placed into building the knowledge and capacity amongst First Nations and Métis leadership, including grassroots, elders and youth, to engage in both an indigenous-led corporate-finance campaign and in decision-making processes on environment, energy, climate and economic policies related to halting the tar-sands expansion. Canadian policy makers need to understand that there is an inextricable link between indigenous rights and energy and climate impacts. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

Plans are afoot for the wholesale ecological reconfiguration of vast parts of the northern hemisphere. The planners are suggesting that infrastructure is required to facilitate far-reaching change: the second-largest dam in the world, a possible nuclear-power station at Peace River, and pipelines across Alberta to the west coast, across the prairies, and down the Mackenzie River. These changes are being drawn up primarily to satisfy the insatiable needs of our neighbours to the immediate south. This current Harper/Stelmach energy sell-out is Phase Two of the selling of Canada initiated by their true predecessor, Brian Mulroney. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press March 2, 2008

TWO months ago judgment was delivered in one of the most important cases ever to be decided by the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench — the Manitoba Métis Federation, and some of its individual members against the government of Canada and the government of Manitoba. (Keep reading…)

First Nations people must hold leaders accountable

Winnipeg Free Press Feb 11 2008

KING Louis’s crown got another dent when a Peguis First Nation band audit hit the news. Louis Stevenson — the former long-standing chief — received a salary and honorariums totaling $240,000, as well as $113,000 in travel expenses. (Keep reading…)

BRODIE FENLON Globe and Mail Update and Canadian Press January 15, 2008

Canada’s aboriginal population has increased 45 per cent over a decade and cracked the one-million mark for the first time since records have been kept, new census data indicate. (Keep reading…)

Special to Globe and Mail Update January 15, 2008

In schoolyard politics, the in crowd is always invited to all the cool parties. So is the case in Canadian politics. While it would have consoling to learn that Phil Fontaine’s invitation to the first ministers dinner meeting was simply lost in the mail, the reality is that the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations wasn’t on the guest list to Friday’s event at 24 Sussex Dr. (Keep reading…)

Freedom Socialist Newspaper, Vol. 28, No. 6 December 2007 — January, 2008 www.socialism.com (Keep reading…)