Columnists
Construction of the Keeyask dam. Image: Manitoba Hydro/Twitter
The silence of the dams: Manitoba Hydro's Keeyask dam
Matthew Behrens | Last summer, Manitoba Hydro began the flooding of 45 square kilometers of Cree lands at the massive Keeyask dam, which the energy utility solemnly acknowledges will result in ecological devastation.
Blog
Isabel Zuleta of Movimiento Ríos Vivos Antioquia in Colombia and Natalia Atz Sunuc of the Guatemalan association Kaji' Ajpop. Image: KAIROS
Women land and water defenders are the real peacebuilders
Gabriela Jiménez | Large-scale resource extraction perpetuates violence, even in countries with peace accords. Women are often on the frontlines of mobilizing to protect land and water.
Blog
Image: Joe Brusky/Flickr
Trudeau's politics of fashion fails Indigenous communities on climate change: weekly news roundup
Sophia Reuss | We can't sit around waiting for Trudeau to change his tune on reconciliation and climate change. He's not interested in a politics of liberation, of real material change. His is a politics of fashion.
Blog
Reconciling energy and Indigenous rights
David Suzuki | Most of Canada's fossil-fuelled energy policies are on a collision course with reconciliation. Shifting to renewable energy would be a win for the environment, climate, economy, and Indigenous rights.
Podcast
Senator Murray Sinclair speaks about Truth and Reconciliation
Senator Murray Sinclair speaks about Truth and Reconciliation
Victoria Fenner | The Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission speaks about what reconciliation means in a keynote address at this year's Tommy Douglas Institute at George Brown College in Toronto.
Blog
Image: Mike Beauregard/Flickr
Reports emphasize urgent need to reverse biodiversity decline
David Suzuki | As with climate change, we have ample evidence that we're facing a biodiversity crisis, we know what's causing it and we have numerous solutions. It's time to act.
Blog
Deepwater Horizon BOP extraction. Image: Deepwater Horizon Response/flickr
BP's dirty (huge) Nova Scotian secret
Andrea Harden-Donahue | BP, the company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon spill, wants to explore offshore drilling in Nova Scotia.
News
Photo of walk participants courtesy of Albert Dumont
Algonquin elders hold Faith is Peace walk to save sacred site Akikodjiwan
Albert Dumont | On June 23, Algonquin elders took part in the Faith is Peace walk from Victoria Island to Parliament Hill, joined by the region's faith leaders in support of the struggle for sacred Akikodjiwan.
Columnists
'Rise' series documents frontlines of Indigenous movements
June Chua | Rise is a fantastic new series that covers a resurgent Indigenous cultural urgency, filmed by Toronto's Christopher Yapp and executive directed by award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer.
Columnists
Trudeau's Trumpishness bulldozes Indigenous rights
Matthew Behrens | Under the deceptive banner of "Canada is back," the Trudeau Liberals are intent on the delivery of a Trump-like policy platform that runs roughshod over Indigenous rights.
Columnists
Unrestrained resource extraction isn't ancient history -- it's a crime still in progress
Naomi Klein | We have a new federal government, a new tone around First Nations and the environment. But when it comes to concrete action on lowering emissions and respecting land rights, much remains the same.
Blog
Photo: Members of the Tsilhqot'in Nation on the front steps of the Supreme Court
Lasting ramifications of Tsilhqot'in decision on fish farms, pipelines
Brent Patterson | In 2014 a Supreme Court decision affirmed Tsilhqot'in Nation's title to their territory in B.C. Now it's at the centre of new protests and legal cases concerning First Nations land property rights.