Nine arrested after RCMP blocks teepee raising on Parliament Hill

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This month a cargo ship carrying 55,000 tonnes of phosphate rock will land in North Vancouver. The cargo ostensibly belongs to Canadian-based Agrium Inc., purchased from the Moroccan state mining company OCP Group to produce fertilizer.


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A large Marine Protected Area (MPA) planned for Canada's East Coast will allow oil and gas exploration in much of its territory, according to newly published regulations, raising environmental activists' ire.


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Outside the tent-turned-holding cell along the sidewalk by Parliament Hill's East Block Jocelyn Iahtail and Elder Sophie Gunner-Sackabuskum wanted to know what happened to someone named 'Crow' who they said was arrested along with nine others for trying to carry teepee poles onto the Hill grounds without a proper permit.


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A group of Indigenous people and supporters headed to Parliament Hill Wednesday night to try to perform a ceremony and erect a teepee, but faced opposition from police.


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What is the fiscal infrastructure of colonialism? It is a barebones cash transfer program that Indigenous Affairs manages to produce a state of permanent austerity on reserves. It is a funding program that has been weaponized against First Nations nationally.


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On, June 30th, 2017, First Nations activists from Winnipeg will be shutting down a portion of the TransCanada Highway to protest the Canadian government and bring awareness to the youth suicide crisis in First Nations communities.


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The point is to make you uncomfortable. If you drive east through the sage-spotted Similkameen Valley, between Keremeos and Osoyoos, you'll be confronted with a billboard that reminds travellers of the difficult realities of colonization.


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The organizers of the Unsettling 150 campaign wish to offer our sincere respect and admiration for the young leaders who were arrested, rough-housed, and confronted by police on Parliament Hill last night but still persisted until the early hours of the morning to erect a ceremonial tipi on the lawn.


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In early May, evidence emerged that natural gas companies had built dozens of large dams during a poorly regulated building spree.


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As thousands of people flocked to downtown Halifax to take part in Canada Day celebrations, a small group gathered at the foot of an Edward Cornwallis statue to try to call attention to darker chapters of the country's past.


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How long have I known you, Oh Canada? A hundred years? Yes, a hundred years. And many, many seelanum more. And today, when you celebrate your hundred years, Oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout the land.


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'Every single promise that Prime Minister Trudeau has made on the Indigenous front has been broken,' says Pam Palmater, chair of Ryerson University's Indigenous governance program.


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Cold irony has outdone Canada's 150 year anniversary. While the nation guts out some US$385 million to commemorate its birthday, more than a hundred communities continue with drinking water advisories in place.


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The minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs hosted her regular celebratory Canada Day picnic on Saturday against a backdrop of Indigenous anger and protest.


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As the pageantry around Canada 150 begins, Ricochet and our Indigenous Reporting Fund present 'Resistance 150: Unsettling Canada's Hidden Economic Apartheid,' a series honouring and continuing the pathbreaking work of the late Arthur Manuel.


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http://socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls357.jpgStudies in Political Economy Book Prize 2017 was awarded to Glen Coulthard. He spoke on issues arising from his celebrated recent work and from subsequent developments in academe, activism and the links between the two. Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Recorded in Toronto, 31 May 2017.

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Last Friday (July 14), a fleet of canoes will approach the shores of Vancouver in an event awash in meaning and symbolism. What transpires next will be a ceremony that has been practised for thousands of years on the shared, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh.


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Several hundred people showed up at Cornwallis Park for a ceremony to 'remove' the statue honouring Edward Cornwallis. Speaker Elizabeth Marshall opened the proceedings by telling the crowd that there have been differing opinions in the Indigenous community about what to do with the statue.


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Like the rest of the world, in 1931 Halifax was reeling from the Depression. As downtown merchants were figuring out how to implement a newly minted sales tax (with surprisingly few complaints), Premier Gordon Harrington was fending off rumours of an imminent election call, and despite the foul economy, the Halifax Herald thought prosperity was just around the corner.


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The chiefs of Waterhen Lake First Nation and Flying Dust First Nation, which are an hour a part and both in Treaty 6 territory, signed two Memorandums of Understanding with each other at the end of June stating that any sale or lease of unoccupied Crown land would be opposed by their leadership.


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Underscoring the Alberta NDP government’s fealty to Big Oil and the financial elite, Premier Rachel Notley has vowed to dramatically increase the transport of untreated bitumen to tidewater.

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The unanimous 8-0 decision released Thursday resolves many important legal questions, such as how to determine aboriginal title and whether provincial laws apply to those lands. It will apply wherever there are outstanding land claims.


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In February 1992, six Innu children were killed in a house fire in Davis Inlet, Newfoundland and Labrador. One year later, in January 1993, six Innu children there were caught sniffing gasoline on camera, yelling that they wanted to die.


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Canadian universities have begun interviews to fill Canada 150 Research Chairs, a $117.6-million initiative by the government of Canada to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Confederation. It is a good investment, but scholars living in Canada are excluded. Only foreign-trained and Canadian expatriates can apply.


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Canadian academics and perhaps a handful of other people will have heard over the last month or so of a new program: the 'Canada 150 Research Chairs'. This is a version of the long established Canada Research Chair program, by which generously funded chairs in all manner of disciplines are allotted to universities across Canada to hire promising or prominent researchers (there are different 'tiers' of CRC for researchers at different career stages).


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