Idle No More gets US boost from top climate activist for day of action
One of the U.S.’s most prominent environmentalists has thrown his considerable clout and that of his organization behind Idle No More’s planned Oct. 7 day of action.
One of the U.S.’s most prominent environmentalists has thrown his considerable clout and that of his organization behind Idle No More’s planned Oct. 7 day of action.
A sheriff posted an injunction notice at the site of a week-long blockade on a diamond mine ice road a little over four hours after he was turned away from the Attawapiskat airport.
It has been a busy week of protests, hunger strikes and controversy in Atlantic Canada, as the “Idle No More” movement continues to grow.
The Idle No More movement made it’s presence known today in Atlantic Canada with protests and events held across the region.
The Tyendinaga Mohawk police have been asked to investigate whether the band council has been criminally negligent in its handling of the on-going water crisis where children have recently been diagnosed with cancer and developed body sores.
From 1965 to 1985 an estimated 16,000 Aboriginal children in Ontario were removed from their homes and placed in mostly non-Aboriginal communities.
Iranian state-controlled television used a Vancouver-based “human rights lawyer” who believes U.S. President Barack Obama visited Mars to attack Canada over its treatment of Indigenous people on the eve of a visit to Tehran by two former chiefs.
First Nations chiefs are the most powerful people in the world, but fear holds them back, said Terry Nelson, one of the candidates running for national chief.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper decided to cancel scheduled meetings on an upcoming economic summit in Switzerland to spend the day Tuesday listening to First Nations chiefs, according to a senior government official.