Métis lawyer Robyn Gervais wins civil liberties award
The Métis lawyer who made headlines when she resigned in protest from the job of Aboriginal counsel at B.C.’s missing women inquiry has been awarded the province’s top civil liberties award.
Tag Archives: Indigenous
My extensive reporting on aboriginal issues has been short-listed for two awards by the Canadian Association of Journalists.
From in-depth coverage of missing and murdered aboriginal women, to profiles of indigenous artists, leaders and environmental advocates, my work has been published in the Toronto Star, Windspeaker, Indian Country Today Media Network, The Tyee, THIS Magazine, and the Vancouver Observer.
Below are some samples from my aboriginal and indigenous portfolio.
Grassy Narrows marchers offer government mercury-tainted fish
Decades after Dryden Chemicals dumped 10 tonnes of the neurotoxin into northwest Ontario’s English-Wabigoon River in the 1960s, Aboriginal communities are literally reeling from its effects.
Palmater dubbed a “wild card” in race for National Chief
Palmater, a lawyer and chair of Ryerson University’s Centre for Indigenous Governance, joined the quest for leadership of the Assembly of First Nations.
First Nations call for greater representation on fisheries boards
With salmon numbers in B.C.’s once-abundant Fraser River stocks predicted to take another devastating hit this summer, some are questioning why First Nations are under-represented in managing a fishery that has become almost exclusively theirs.
Self-determination key plank in Gabriel’s campaign
Decades after being chosen to represent her people in the 1990 Kanehsatà:ke standoff, Ellen Gabriel at is back in the spotlight as a candidate for National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Missing Women Inquiry Hearings End Amid Cover-Up Charges From Victims’ Families
Eight months after they began, hearings into why police failed to catch serial killer Robert Pickton sooner ended much as they began: with families and aboriginal groups protesting outside.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip on Bill C-38: It’s time to ‘take this to the streets’
In the wake of the omnibus budget bill’s passage, a B.C. indigenous leader calls C-38 an “absolute attack on democracy” – warning that resistance will “play out on the streets and at the barricades.”
Exclusive: Ex-Pickton worker echoes lawyer allegations of police cover-up
Co-winning submission, Canadian Journalism Foundation 2012 Excellence in Journalism Award (small media). Describing a ‘turning, wrenching feeling,’ would-be police informant Bill Hiscox reveals to VO what it was like on serial killer Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton’s farm.
Missing women inquiry ends in outrage: ‘We need more answers, what really happened?’
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.
Budget bill will have ‘direct impact on our rights,’ says Atleo
Aboriginal leaders are increasingly turning their sights on the federal government’s Budget Implementation Bill, Bill C-38.
David P Ball 