Highway of Tears investigation leads RCMP to taxi drivers’ DNA
In British Columbia, police are chasing a new angle to solve the murders of women along the province’s infamous Highway of Tears.
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BC RCMP search for missing Nikita Jack
Surrey RCMP investigators are trying to track down a 23-year-old First Nations woman who was last seen this past Thursday after leaving her three-year-old daughter at a relative’s home in Surrey, B.C.
Prosperity mine resurrection?
British Columbia Liberal leadership candidate Christy Clark says if chosen leader she would resurrect Taseko Mine’s controversial Prosperity mine project which would drain a lake sacred to area First Nations.
‘Duty to consult’ meaning muddy
Five years after the Supreme Court of Canada decision established the “duty to consult” the actual meaning of the term remains unclear.
‘There is urgency,’ says BC minister
The federal government has long been criticized for its lack of commitment to First Nations child welfare. Mary Polak, British Columbia’s minister of children and family development, appeared before the committee to talk about the situation in her province.
Squamish RV park feud heating up
A man arrested after the Squamish First Nation seized control of his family’s business, is now claiming that the band council is acting out of personal interest.
Old growth Douglas fir facing FNs axe
Despite cries of protest from government officials and environmentalists, the Nanoose First Nation plans to cut down a patch of forest west of Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island.
Elite BC school facing human rights complaint
Six months after enduring a tirade from a supervisor, a staff member at an elite British Columbia private school says going to work is now unbearable.
Tobacco battle flares in two more provinces
Authorities in British Columbia and Saskatchewan have recently seized thousands of cigarettes shipped by a Mohawk tobacco company in Kahnawake, Que., aiming to establish a reserve-based distribution network throughout the Western provinces, APTN National News has learned.