Alliance leaders have been talking sense to news media about issues around hereditary chiefs and elected councils. For example, Alliance CEO Karen Ogen-Toews, a former elected chief councillor of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, was on CBC Radio’s Early Edition show, discussing the matter with host Stephen Quinn. Among other things, she said, the people of any …
‘Whether we’re elected chiefs or hereditary chiefs, we must find ways forward for our people.’ And the people are the most important and critical factor. The CBC News story: https://bit.ly/2VYme7F And the audio recording of her interview with CBC Radio’s Stephen Quinn: https://bit.ly/2Hf4OAA
(And was our December busy!) Our social-media traffic soared in December, with big interest in posts that centred on the differences of opinion among elected and hereditary chiefs on the Coastal GasLink natural-gas pipeline, and blockades of the line’s route. The heavy online activity began with a guest column by our Alliance chair, Chief Dan …
The following guest column by our Karen Ogen-Toews ran in the Prince George Citizen on 22 December 2018: It is difficult to see as a positive development this week’s announcement of a second road blockade at the Unist’ot’en camp to block the Coastal Gaslink gas pipeline, in Wet’suwet’en territories. We cannot see how setting the …
By Laurie Hamelin APTN News A hereditary chief in British Columbia says people standing in the way of the LNG pipeline need to step aside and let the project get up and running. “I’m just getting tired of hearing about it,” she says. “I’m just waiting for the shovel to get into the ground , …
