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?
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 nationalBy 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 governments
