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Newsletter: Alliance to BC Premier: Clean Energy plan will disproportionately hit First Nations

Our newsletter: 15 February 2024 Alliance letter to Premier David Eby Our Feb. 14 letter to B.C.’s premier says B.C.’s Clean Energy plan means negative impacts that will be ‘larger for Indigenous people given pre-existing and long-standing income gap issues.’ We point out that we are strongly supportive of having leading environmental policies and contributing…

Karen Ogen: MP’s bill to ban oil and gas promotion is ‘reprehensible’

This column first appeared through the Macdonald-Laurier Institute Photo of NDP MP Charlie Angus By Karen Ogen: Proposed ban on oil and gas promotion revives paternalistic treatment of Indigenous peoples: MP Charlie Angus needs to withdraw his offensive attempt to silence discussion, and apologize. First Nations are used to oppression. We lived for over a…