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Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council

At the recent summit in Brazil, Indigenous leaders launch global council to centre Indigenous solutions and knowledge in ...
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In the home of the caribou, the looming shadow of an open-pit mine threatens the Kaska way of life

On the shores of Frances Lake, Yukon First Nations fight to defend their land, language, and water as a new mining project ...
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Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source

In a community grieving five recent deaths after a decade of government inaction, elders signal they’re done being ignored as ...
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What we’d once consider a scandal is now just another day in Doug Ford’s Ontario

Once a $16 orange juice could end a career. Today, Ford’s government shrugs off allegations of a billion-dollar slush fund, revealing a political culture reshaped — and degraded — by a decade of far-r ...
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Ottawa won’t back down on Ring of Fire environmental assessment

Doug Ford wants to fast-track critical mineral development, but First Nations say both governments are stripping away ...
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Canada’s next extractive industry: How AI is following the fossil fuel playbook

Ottawa is betting nearly a billion on artificial intelligence, ignoring warnings of its environmental risks. Just like Big Oil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to ...
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Ontario First Nations say it’s ‘now or never’ to stand up to resource extraction bills

Legal experts warn that laws are undemocratic and unconstitutional, while leaders across the north call for a united front to defend their lands and sovereignty The 49 chiefs of First Nations in ...
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That time Canadian MPs gave a standing ovation to an American white nationalist

Both Conservative and Liberal Canadian MPs stood to applaud and honour Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on September 10. Kirk was the leader of a far-right, white nationalist movement, and he was ...
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Northern Ontario First Nations are building a village in the path to the Ring of Fire

There’s a brand-new clearing on the point above the rapids on the Attawapiskat River, 70 kilometres from Neskantaga First Nation. By the time Ontario’s planned Northern Link road is built to the edge ...
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Could publicly-owned grocery stores break Canada’s grocery oligopoly?

A bold proposal from New York’s Zohran Mamdani is sparking interest north of the border. Experts say a Canadian public option is not only possible — it’s long overdue New York City's Democratic ...
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Kanehsatake 35 years later: Remembering the day Canada sent in the military to violently clear Mohawk land for a golf course

Mohawk warriors and land defenders during the 78-day siege of Kanesatake, also known as the “Oka Crisis,” on July 11, 1990. Photo via Ellen Gabriel. Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel is a Mohawk activist, ...
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Zohran Mamdani’s victory should be a wake-up call to Canadian progressives

Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old New York State Assemblyman and democratic socialist won the New York Democratic Primary this week. By all the usual measures in American politics, it should never have ...