Michele Pineault’s daughter was killed on Robert Pickton’s farm, one of Canada’s 600 missing and murdered Native women. She spoke with the Left Coast Post at a closure ceremony on Wednesday.
The British Columbia government stands to regulate on-reserve business development for the first time under new legislation.
Aboriginal leaders are outraged after secret documents revealed that police have been keeping tabs on critics of Enbridge Corp.’s Northern Gateway pipeline.
Underneath the vibrant, diverse surface of a thriving arts and culture scene, Vancouver faces a loss of its brightest painters, dancers, designers, makers and performers to greener pastures. VO investigates how rising real estate prices are crunching our city’s artists.
A coalition of interested groups have rejected pleas to rejoin BC’s missing women inquiry, saying they will instead focus on a United Nations investigation and proposed royal commission.
Natural Resources Minister’s comments go beyond paternalism and border on racist, First Nations Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said.
Sara MacIntyre, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former press secretary, made a splash in her first week on the job as British Columbia Premier Christy Clark’s media handler. And handle the press, she did.
Lawyer Robyn Gervais resigns from Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.
The Pickton inquiry faced a new setback today, as the lawyer for Aboriginal interests quit – the latest in a string of boycotts and criticisms which some say has cost the commission its legitimacy.
Speaking out on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and mining near his home, the author of Sacred Headwaters spoke with VO on nature, industry and First Nations.
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