This week’s articles will inform and help create a better understanding as we walk together on our journey of reconciliation.
Reconciliation or recolonization? What Canada can learn by looking abroad
First Nation looks to expand gardening programs after landing national award – Windspeaker.com
Iskum Investments Announces Study of a New State-of-the-Art Wood Processing Facility – Iskum
Permafrost thaw is transforming northern communities | The Narwhal
Native American tribes built America’s forgotten pyramids – then their world went silent
In the Okanagan desert, snakes offer lessons on protecting a fragile ecosystem – Indiginews
The Ktunaxa Nursery Restoring BC’s Interior | The Tyee
The Indigenous nation that history tried to silence
The Indigenous history quiz: 10 questions most Canadians would fail
syilx paddlers complete commemorative Unity Canoe Trek
Indigenous people demand more say at the UN, as new crises hit their homelands – Indiginews
Six Nations lacrosse squad eyes fourth consecutive national championship – Windspeaker.com
Aboriginal traditional owners win landmark native title fight in major court ruling
Banner message along Edmonton area highway deemed ‘racist’
BC lakeside community in ruins as chief says 230 homes destroyed by wildfire
On The Corn Pollen Trail With Deb Haaland – Native News Online
| DRUMBEATS: B.C. Premier Eby and First Nations Secure North Coast Protections Premier David Eby and coastal First Nations leaders celebrated the Canada-B.C. Cooperative Prosperity Agreement, which keeps British Columbia’s oil tanker ban on the North Coast in place to secure a marine and coastal economy that generates more than $3 billion annually.Marilyn Slett, President of the Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative and elected Chief of the Heiltsuk Nation, said the agreement allows Indigenous partners and the province to build durable economic partnerships and invest in the infrastructure needed to support safe, reliable shipping as project activity increases.Northwest B.C. accounts for a third of major projects announced across Canada over the past year, she said, a share that is driving higher shipping traffic through the North Coast.The agreement also commits federal support to the North Coast Transmission Line and to growth in B.C.’s critical minerals sector, giving Indigenous nations and industry a funded pathway to move both energy and minerals to market.The tanker ban has been in place since 2019, but this agreement locks in that protection without modification, removing a regulatory variable that had remained open to revision. The Institutions Financing Indigenous Canada A quiet transformation is underway in Canada’s Indigenous economy.Ten years ago, many First Nations relied heavily on government transfers. Today, some are raising billions in capital markets, financing infrastructure through their own revenues and taking equity stakes in nationally significant projects.The First Nations Finance Authority has issued more than C$4 billion in debentures backed by First Nations’ own-source revenues, while the Canada Indigenous Loan Guarantee Corporation has C$10 billion in federal guarantee capacity to support Indigenous ownership in major infrastructure, energy and resource projects.Ernie Daniels, President and CEO of the First Nations Finance Authority, shared that example during the third Canadian Indigenous Investment Summit, alongside Kristan Straub, President and CEO of the Canada Indigenous Loan Guarantee Corporation. Canada has quietly built two institutions that are changing how Indigenous communities finance growth. But how did Canada build this financing model, and what does it mean for investors?The latest episode of Drumbeats explores how that transformation happened.. Germany’s Uniper Seals Second Ksi Lisims Deal, Deepening Nisga’a’s LNG Stake Ksi Lisims LNG has signed a binding agreement with Germany’s Uniper to supply two million tonnes of Canadian LNG annually for up to 20 years, with first deliveries expected in 2032. Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Tim Hodgson, announced the agreement alongside British Columbia’s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions, Adrian Dix, and Eva Clayton, President of the Nisga’a Lisims Government on 29 July.The agreement follows a 20-year deal signed with Germany’s SEFE in May for one million tonnes per year, bringing total contracted volumes to three million tonnes annually, around a quarter of Ksi Lisims LNG’s planned 12 million-tonne export capacity.The proposed C$30 billion project is led by the Nisga’a Nation in partnership with Western LNG and the Rockies LNG producer consortium, making it one of Canada’s largest Indigenous-led energy developments.Ukraine Seeks 30-Year Canadian LNG Security Bridge Ukraine has proposed a 30-year strategic energy agreement with Canada, with Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal describing an “energy security bridge” centred on Canadian LNG supply. Shmyhal raised the proposal with Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Tim Hodgson, following talks between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Mark Carney. The two sides also discussed £347 million in direct Canadian grant support for winter gas purchases and cooperation on small modular reactors.Any long-term Canadian LNG supply agreement with Ukraine would likely rely on export projects that are already securing long-term commitments from European buyers. Ksi Lisims LNG, led by the Nisga’a Nation in partnership with Western LNG and the Rockies LNG producer consortium, has already contracted a quarter of its planned 12 million tonnes per annum capacity to Germany’s SEFE and Uniper under 20-year agreements.UAE’s C$70 Billion Pledge Targets Indigenous-Owned LNG and Mining The UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi,announced on 24 July that negotiations on a Canada–UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) had concluded, marking the latest step in deepening economic ties between the two countries. The agreement builds on the UAE’s C$70 billion investment pledge announced during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Abu Dhabi in November and is intended to expand market access and reduce tariffs.The UAE has identified energy, mining, artificial intelligence and ports as priority investment sectors, with ADNOC leading discussions on energy projects. Al Zeyoudi also said a majority of the UAE’s sovereign wealth funds are expected to attend the Canada Investment Summit in September this year, where investment announcements are anticipated.Among the projects likely to attract attention are Canada’s LNG developments, including Ksi Lisims LNG, which is majority owned by the Nisga’a Nation, and LNG Canada, where five First Nations hold an option to acquire up to C$1 billion in Phase 2 storage infrastructure. |
