KATHRYN BLAZE CARLSON OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Last updated Thursday, Jun. 26 2014, 9:55 PM EDT Far beyond British Columbia, where a First Nation asserted its rights to ancestral land, proponents of resource development projects will now confront a changed landscape created by the Supreme Court’s decision in the historic case. Governments and companies eyeing mining… Read More Aboriginal Land Case Reshapes Resource Sector Nationwide
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Mi’kmaq lawyer Pam Palmater said this decision provides important clarification over what having aboriginal title means and how it will affect resource development projects. “The aboriginal group in question has the exclusive authority to decide who uses that land and who benefits from that land and, as a result, provincial laws…
Albert Camus once said that “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” In a similar spirit, nasty bastard Nietzsche erupted “without music, life would be a mistake!” In this fine gent, so calm, so optimistic, so focussed I… Read More Virtuous Acts of Rebellion
Vandana Shiva is coming to Halifax as the keynote for the Food Secure Canada conference in November 13-16. http://foodsecurecanada.org/who-we-are/what-we-do/our-8th-assembly OUR 8TH ASSEMBLY Hundreds of food leaders from across Canada will converge on Halifax November 13-16th, 2014 for Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All, Food Secure Canada’s eighth National Assembly. Farmers, fishers, dietitians, policy… Read More Vandana Shiva to Lead Food Secure Canada Halifax Nov. 13-16
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I am a Black African Queen with four arms and three eyes with a thousand snakes that coil from the top of my crown chakra my upper left hand holds the key to the shackles of slavery my lower left hand holds the book of my testimony my upper right hand holds a bell that… Read More The Tantra of Vimilasara
from Survival International Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of uncontacted Amazon tribes – despite international outrage, the resignation of three ministers, and condemnation by the United Nations and international human rights organizations. Peru’s Ministry of Culture, tasked with protecting the country’s indigenous population, has approved plans by oil and gas… Read More Peru Approves Drilling in Machu Pichu, Death for Local Tribes
