Tag Archives: First Nations
Kenney wants Ottawa to approve Teck mine for benefit of First Nations
CALGARY - Alberta's premier says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to move swiftly to approve the Teck Frontier oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray. Jason Kenney says there is no reason to del...
Jan 27, 2020
BC Utilities Commission seeks input on Indigenous Utilities Regulation
KAMLOOPS - A consultation process is underway between the BC Utilities Commission and First Nations throughout British Columbia. The inquiry is about the regulation of utilities operated by Indigenous...
Jan 14, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Alberta fires back at UN committee for criticism of energy megaprojects
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the United Nations is an unelected, unaccountable body that has no business criticizing Canada's energy megaprojects.Sonya Savage, in a statement, says that i...
Jan 07, 2020
Mayor Ken Christian highlights the big plans and projects of 2019
KAMLOOPS - It's been a year of growth and new challenges for the city of Kamloops. Mayor Ken Christian sat down with James Peters for Balance of Power this week to discuss the year that was. 2019 was ...
Dec 19, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Plans advancing for First Nations' pipeline purchase
KAMLOOPS - A leader of one of the First Nations communities situated right along the path of the Trans Mountain pipeline says plans to buy the project are moving along. Chief Mike LeBourdais of the Wh...
Dec 12, 2019 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Action plan on missing, murdered Indigenous women coming by June: Bennett
OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the federal government will release by June 2020 its plan to respond to the final report of the inquiry into missing an...
Dec 04, 2019
Upper Nicola Band reaches working agreement with Trans Mountain
SPAXMN / DOUGLAS LAKE, B.C. - The Upper Nicola Band and Trans Mountain have now reached an agreement surrounding the pipeline expansion project. In a joint release from the band and Trans Mountain tod...
Nov 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Metis veterans get long-awaited recognition ahead of Remembrance Day
OTTAWA - Metis contributions to Canada's Second World War effort are being recognized at a special ceremony in the nation's capital today. The ceremony comes two months after the federal governme...
Nov 08, 2019
Skeetchestn chief hopes B.C.'s adoption of UNDRIP will set example for Canada
KAMLOOPS - The Chief of the Skeetchestn Indian Band is calling B.C.'s adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous People (UNDRIP), "courageously historic." Legislation to imp...
Oct 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Expansion of family research project honours Secwépemc veterans
CHASE, BC - Of the approximately 650,000 Canadians who served in World War I, about 4,000 of them were Indigenous. And when 1 million Canadians fought for their country in World War II, over 3,000 Ind...
Oct 18, 2019 Allan and Ethel Manuel (Image Credit: Carryl Coles)
