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Sweetgrass and CFWE news - May 25, 2016

Bennett, Feehan to meet with Alberta Chiefs

May 25, 2016. The provincial and federal Indigenous relations ministers will be in Calgary Wednesday. Enoch Cree Nation Chief Billy Morin says Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Minister Carolyn Bennett and her Alberta counterpart Indigenous Relations Minister Richard Feehan will be addressing First Nations leaders at the Alberta Organization of Treaty Chiefs gathering.

 

 


Alberta introduces climate change bill

 

Plan still to be ironed out for returning to most damaged neighbourhoods

May 24, 2016.

Officials are still working on a plan that will allow residents in the largely destroyed Fort McMurray neighbourhoods of Waterways, Abasand and Beacon Hill to be able to return to their homes and personally retrieve keepsakes and valuables.

Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee said Tuesday that she understands the importance of that step. Following the Slave Lake fire in 2011, residents, whose homes were destroyed, were unable to return. They had to depend on first responders to wade through wreckage and rescue what was salvageable.

Blackstock to receive honourary degree

May 24, 2016. The University of Saskatchewan will present Cindy Blackstock with an honourary degree at its June 2 spring convocation. Blackstock, as executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, carried the cause of First Nations children’s rights all the way to the Federal Court of Appeal in a decade-long legal campaign that resulted in a landmark decision in January by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

NEB conditionally approves Trans Mountain pipeline

May 19, 2016. The National Energy Board has approved Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion but with 157 conditions. Among those conditions is consultation with Indigenous peoples. NEB’s recommendation for Indigenous interests states, “Should the project proceed, Trans Mountain would be required to continue its consultation with potentially affected Indigenous groups throughout the life of the project.

NEB conditionally approves Trans Mountain pipeline

May 19, 2016. The National Energy Board has approved Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion but with 157 conditions. Among those conditions is consultation with Indigenous peoples. NEB’s recommendation for Indigenous interests states, “Should the project proceed, Trans Mountain would be required to continue its consultation with potentially affected Indigenous groups throughout the life of the project.