UNDRIP is now part of Canadian law as an interpretive tool From the law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP In 2025, both the B.C. Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Canada issued significant decisions that speak to the role of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in interpreting and …
The new federal Budget 2025 is being hailed as indicating “a change of tone” on natural-resource issues. All in all, says Heather Exner-Pirot of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, the budget shows signs of a better mix of “carrot and stick” than did the Justin Trudeau government. “The last budget was still in the ‘stick’ era. Finally, …
Prime Minister Mark Carney will start meeting Indigenous representatives on July 17 as he and his cabinet work to decide which major national resource projects get fast-tracked. “I will be meeting with First Nations rights holders on July 17, here in Ottawa, Inuit leadership in late July, and Métis leadership soon thereafter,” Carney announced. “I’ll …
Donald Trump’s dictatorial tariffs, and his chaotic off-again-on-again-up-again-down-again execution of them, is naturally causing economic and political woes for Canadian people, markets, and governments. But nowhere are the threats greater than for Indigenous Peoples and their communities, as so many Indigenous people are hit far more strongly than other Canadians by rising prices and economic …
‘This is why we say Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG’ From a speech by Alliance CEO Karen Ogen (photo above) to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute’s conference on the global role of LNG, in Ottawa on Feb. 13, 2025. The First Nations Natural Gas Alliance was founded in 2014 not long after the idea of …
