By Jake Cardinal, Alberta Native News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
(ANNews) – A class-action lawsuit has been filed in B.C. seeking reparations for the province’s birth alert practice that disproportionally affected hundreds of Indigenous and other racialized peoples.
Continue reading Indigenous lawsuit seeks damages from B.C. for disproportionate birth alertsBy Athena Bonneau, The Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Penticton Indian Band (PIB) is working with BC Wildfire Serviceon a new wildfire risk reduction project using traditional syilx methods.
“All of the PIB [wildfire risk reduction] projects are informed by Elders and knowledge keepers,” says James Pepper, director of PIB’s natural resource department. “They write the prescriptions, then we implement them.”
Continue reading Penticton Indian Band is using syilx traditional methods to reduce wildfire riskBy Jeremy Appel, Alberta Native News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
(ANNews) – First Nations perspectives need to be front-and-centre in any response to the climate crisis, Indigenous delegates to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow say.
Continue reading Indigenous COP26 delegates want to be heard by governmentsBy Matt Simmons, The Narwhal, Local Journalism Initiative reporter
When B.C. Supreme Court Justice Emily Burke served her ruling on a long-fought case between Blueberry River First Nations and the province in late June, unequivocally determining the B.C. government breached the Nations’ Treaty Rights by permitting and encouraging widespread resource extraction, she noted B.C.’s regulatory regime for industrial development is broken.
Continue reading How the Blueberry ruling in B.C. is a gamechanger for the Site C dam, extractive industries and Indigenous RightsBy Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
While floods and other extreme weather events take up most of the popular attention on climate change’s health impacts, some medical students want to learn, and in turn teach, that it goes much further than that.
Continue reading Young med students want to learn more about planetary health
