This week’s edition – June 4

This week’s edition has acknowledgement about Chief Terry Paul being inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. A well deserved recognition for a friend I have known since our days on a National Financing Task Force and our work together in getting Membertou ISO certified, the first such community in the world to be so certified. Chief Terry Paul is a reflection of leadership being a submission to duty and not an elevation to power.

The Deloitte article highlights the role of sovereign Indigenous economic relations in building a more prosperous Canada

Several articles on the important role First Nations in Alberta are playing with respect to the Referendum. They shed light on the important Treaty obligations that exist.

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Links to the articles below:

Chief Terry Paul inducted into Canadian Business Hall of Fame | PNI Atlantic News

Breaking trail | Deloitte Canada

First Nations leaders seen as key in Alberta referendum push

Government of Canada invests $22.8 million in Indigenous sport programs to empower First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities – Canada.ca

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/geraldton-main-street-rehabilitation-project-9.7211679

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/geraldton-main-street-rehabilitation-project-9.7211679

AFN chief rebukes Alberta separation talks in meeting with King Charles

Indigenous speakers, politicians watching audit of languages office closely

B.C. Aboriginal title chaos the predictable result of NDP virtue-signalling: Karen Restoule in the National Post | Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Atlantic chiefs call for Indigenous collaboration on offshore wind farm development – Rocky Mountain News

‘Substantial difference:’ Bamkushwada LP receives 20 per cent ownership in East-West Tie Transmission Line | CBC News

First Nations want power of their own

Anishinabek Nation statement on the importance of recognizing First Nations’ rights and land sovereignty – Anishinabek News

Indigenous elder hits out at welcome to countries being used ‘before every meeting’

Feds order financial audit into Indigenous languages office amid anonymous complaints | CBC News

https://khelsilem.substack.com/p/what-the-supreme-courts-wolastoqey

Ruling against Aboriginal title on private land is allowed to stand by high court

Mining industry warned: Certainty requires First Nations partnership | Sudbury Star

N.B. government supports inquiry into systemic racism against Indigenous people in justice system | CBC News

On Brazil visit, UN Experts to provide guidance on protecting Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation | OHCHR

First Nations want power of their own

Yukon gov’t to pay $45K to First Nation over Beaver River watershed court dispute

(1) B.C. First Nation wants treaty process paused or they could exercise civil disobedience | Globalnews.ca

ʔAkisq̓nuk First Nation launches study into 2 East Kootenay lakes amid boating debate

First Nations step up efforts to have Dryden, Ont., paper mill shut down over mercury contamination

Impact of Environmental Degradation and Climate Change on Indigenous Communities in Canada – The Canadian Centre for GBA+

Microsoft Word – NIEDB – EN – Economic Reconciliation – FINAL REPORT 10979388

Is the financial crisis at the UN impacting Indigenous Peoples?

BC Indigenous relations face ‘fraught context’ but treaty commissioner undeterred

Newly carved totem pole raised in Haida Gwaii—a ‘small act of reconciliation’ – Indiginews

Supreme Court of Canada to hear BC appeal over Indigenous rights and mineral claims – The Northern Miner