By Aaron Walker, Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
As First Nations leaders challenge one of Canada’s largest proposed artificial intelligence data centres over its potential impact on fresh water, many say Ottawa’s newly introduced clean water legislation leaves a fundamental question unanswered: Who ultimately decides what happens to waters in First Nations territory?
Continue reading AI Data Centres: Can Bill C-37 deliver real authority to First Nations over water?
IndigiNews, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Prime Minister Mark Carney has earned a “mixed” report card over his first year in office, according to the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).
Asked to grade the Liberal leader’s performance, Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak told IndigiNews he “is at a crossroads” if he wants to earn Indigenous people’s trust while also achieving his economic ambitions.
Continue reading ‘Carney is at a crossroads’ with First Nations, says AFN national chief
By Jeremy Appel, Alberta Native News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
(ANNews) – The national advocacy organization for Treaty First Nations has joined the chorus of First Nations telling Alberta premier Danielle Smith that a referendum on Alberta independence would be illegitimate without consulting the land’s original inhabitants.
“Any proposed separation of Alberta from Canada would be fundamentally illegitimate and unconstitutional without the explicit, prior, informed and collective consent of the First Nations whose lands and rights predate the formation of the province and of Canada,” Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Woodhouse Nepinak said in a May 12 news release.
Continue reading First Nations criticism of Danielle Smith goes national
By Sheri Narine, Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s been a “challenging” 10 days, says RoseAnne Archibald in an extensive interview with Windspeaker.com conducted June 25.
The first woman leader of the largest, best-funded Indigenous organization in the country may or may not have been suspended from her position as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, but Monday she meets with chiefs in British Columbia, at their invitation, and says she’ll present them with documented evidence of alleged corruption at the AFN.
Continue reading RoseAnne Archibald to reveal documents to BC chiefs of alleged corrupt practices at AFN, she says
