“I’m very relieved and very proud of all the hard work of our team and of all the leaders and Tahltans that have been advocating to protect this area for the decades,” Chad Norman Day, president of the Tahltan Central Government, said in an interview. “Mount Edziza is one of those areas, similar to the Stikine River, the Sacred Headwaters and Sheslay Valley, that is amongst the most sacred places to the Tahltan people culturally.” Skeena Resources, a mining company with several interests on Tahltan territory, agreed to surrender its claims on the mountain’s slopes for $5 million, roughly one-fifth of the market value, according to the company. The province paid half the bill and the federal government and NGOs, including the BC Parks Foundation and the Nature Conservancy of Canada, funded the remainder.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland will table the federal budget on April 19 in Ottawa.(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
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Gauri Sreenivasan, Mandy Gull and Jacqueline Scott
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Sreenivasan is policy director at Nature Canada. Gull is Deputy Grand Chief of the Cree Nation Government. Scott is a PhD student at the University of Toronto and founder of Black Outdoors.
The federal government is hard at work finalizing a budget that will underwrite our path forward out of the pandemic as a country. That s why 50 women leaders from diverse regions and sectors, and across Indigenous, Black, racialized and LGBTQ2IS+ communities, are writing to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland this week to remind her that nature s recovery is essential to our own.
Indigenous and Western Scientists and Knowledge Holders Partnering for the Public Good
Protect the Arctic Refuge youth rally in front of the Yukon legislative assembly. Katarzyna Nowak
Indigenous and Western Scientists and Knowledge Holders Partnering for the Public Good Katarzyna Nowak, lecturer at University of Alberta / Yukon University; Jared Gonet, PhD student at University of Alberta / Yukon University., UCS Science Network, UCS | April 7, 2021, 3:25 pm EDT This post is a part of a series on
We are two conservationists: a First Nations Yukoner and Canadian, and a first generation immigrant-settler with dual Poland-U.S. nationality. Our paths crossed through mutual interest in Indigenous-led stewardship, Two-Eyed Seeing, and holistic approaches like One Health. We are proponents of two-eyed seeing which means, “To see from one eye with the strengths
The subject was first broached earlier in the week when the NDP unveiled its election platform.
The announcement was made by NDP candidate George Bahm.
“I’m happy to announce that a Yukon NDP government will require Yukon First Nations’ consent for all major resource development projects, renewable and non-renewable,” he said.
“We will put this into law because we commit to adopting the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
A Yukon NDP government will move swiftly to align all territorial legislation with the goals and recommendations of the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.