The following is a guest column by our Alliance chair, Chief Dan George, that ran in The Vancouver Sun on 15 December 2018. Reaction to the Coastal GasLink application for a court injunction to lift the blockade of a public bridge in Wet’suwet’en territory highlights two major issues that First Nations must resolve. The first …
Our letter to the editor in the Victoria Times Colonist on 08 December 2018: LNG means a lot to First Nations Re: “An effective climate plan must be bold and can’t include LNG,” Comment, Dec. 4 So the Sierra Club thinks an effective B.C. climate plan can’t include liquefied natural gas. They have missed the point …
News release: John Alan Jack, an elected councillor of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations on Vancouver Island and chair of the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, has joined the board of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance of BC. On the board, he succeeds Robert J. Dennis Sr., the elected chief councillor for Huu-ay-aht First Nations. Jack leads …
For the record, there are 634 First Nations in Canada, 198 of them in British Columbia. There are 1.3 million First Nations people in Canada, 5.6% of the population. More than 275,000 of them are in British Columbia, 6% of the provincial population. Also for the record, their past is one of colonization and repression, …
“Job applicant must have valid driver’s licence.” OK, no problem. Seventy-five per cent us in B.C. have a licence unless you’re a First Nations member. Then the chances are dramatically different. In many Indigenous communities in B.C., the number of people with driver’s licences is well below 50 per cent. In some, as few as …
