Canada

Canada Owes First Nations Billions After Making ‘Mockery’ Of Treaty Deal

July 29, 2024 Leyland Cecco, Portside. Resist! Canada, First Nations, Indigenous Rights, Legal System, Treaties, Victory

An “egregious” refusal by successive Canadian governments to honor a key treaty signed with Indigenous nations made a “mockery” of the deal and deprived generations of fair compensation for their resources, Canada’s top court has ruled. But while the closely watched decision will likely yield billions in payouts, First Nation chiefs say the ruling adds yet another hurdle in the multi-decade battle for justice. In a scathing and unanimous decision released on Friday, Canada’s supreme court sharply criticized both the federal and Ontario governments for their “dishonourable” conduct around a 174-year-old agreement, which left First Nations people to struggle in poverty while surrounding communities, industry and government exploited the abundant natural resources in order to enrich themselves. But while the closely watched decision will likely yield billions in payouts, First Nation chiefs say the ruling adds yet another hurdle in the multi-decade battle for justice. In a scathing and unanimous decision released on Friday, Canada’s supreme court sharply criticized both the federal and Ontario governments for their “dishonourable” conduct around a 174-year-old agreement, which left First Nations people to struggle in poverty while surrounding communities, industry and government exploited the abundant natural resources in order to enrich themselves.

Airport Disruption Entered Fourth Day; Starmer’s Government A Target

July 28, 2024 The Canary. Resist! airplanes, Airports, Austria, Canada, climate crisis, Climate Justice, Montreal, pollution, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom (UK)

On Saturday 27 July, peaceful protests took place in at least six cities across six countries in support of Oil Kills – an international uprising to end oil, gas and coal by 2030. Airport disruption was a key feature, again – with more arrests amid blockades. However, in the UK things went up a gear – as activists targeted Keir Starmer’s new Labour Party government. Across the UK, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, the USA, and Canada, protesters are gathering to demand their governments commit to establishing a legally binding treaty to stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal by 2030 as well as supporting and financing poorer countries to make a fast, fair, and just transition.

Canada Set To Revoke Jewish National Fund’s Charitable Status

July 26, 2024 Yves Engler, Mondoweiss. Resist! Canada, Jewish National Fund, Nonprofits, Zionism

Score a significant victory against apartheid, genocide and Canada’s most significant contribution to Palestinian dispossession. The powerful Jewish National Fund of Canada has reportedly had its charitable status revoked. Under pressure from Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) and others the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) instigated an audit of the JNF in 2018. JNF Canada was eventually forced to differentiate itself from its parent organization in Israel and to stop “co-mingling” its funds with that organization. JNF Canada was also instructed to stop assisting projects in the illegally occupied West Bank and initiatives supporting the Israeli military.

What We Can Learn From Cities With Transit-Oriented Development

July 25, 2024 Shonda Wang, Next City. Create! Canada, Japan, Public transportation, tokyo, Toronto, Transportation, Urban Design

In my early twenties, I lived in Chofu, a city of over 240,000 people on the west side of Tokyo Metropolis. My apartment building was less than a 10-minute walk from Chofu Station, which is at the center of a bustling, fully “amenitized” mini-city, with easy pedestrian access to an urban-scale grocery store, ever-busy retail shops and restaurants, multiple schools, and small-but-mighty parks. Walking and taking transit every day was easy, and without question, my mode of choice. That was more than 20 years ago, but the memories of Tokyo’s transit system and the feelings I had experiencing it stayed with me. And they’ve informed my efforts to build vibrant, livable communities around — and integrated with — public transit stations in Vancouver, Toronto and Mexico.

Canada Makes An Unprecedented Push For Multifamily Housing

July 19, 2024 Akielly Hu, Scheer Post. Create! Canada, Housing, Sustainability, Urban Design

For more than a century, zoning ordinances rooted in segregation have encouraged the construction of single-family homes, often at the expense of apartment buildings and other structures that promote urban density. Beyond contributing to a mounting housing shortage and spiraling prices, such policies have contributed to sprawl and dependence upon automobiles. Canada has decided to try something different. The government has taken the unprecedented step of offering provincial governments billions of dollars in infrastructure funds with one catch: To receive it, they must require cities to abandon single-family zoning laws and allow the construction of fourplexes.

Court Rejects Jail For Wet’suwet’en Chief Who Defied Injunction

July 5, 2024 Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee. Resist! Canada, Coastal GasLink Pipeline, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Wet’suwet’en

A Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief will spend two months under house arrest for interfering with construction on the Coastal GasLink pipeline project nearly three years ago. The sentence comes more than four months after Chief Dsta’hyl, a Wing Chief of the Likhts’amisyu Clan who also goes by Adam Gagnon, was found guilty of criminal contempt for breaching a court injunction obtained by Coastal GasLink. The injunction bars anyone from impeding work on the controversial pipeline project. As he emerged from the Smithers courthouse following Wednesday’s sentencing, Dsta’hyl announced he will appeal his conviction.

The Kenyan Intervention In Haiti: A Wave Of ‘Diplomatic’ Terrorism

July 3, 2024 Kevin Edmonds, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Canada, Foreign Intervention, Haiti, Kenya, US Imperialism

The invasion of Haiti that has just begun with the arrival of Kenyan police, was long in the making. It is the end result of a long imperialist war of destabilization and propaganda against the country. Kenya's involvement is said to be a better solution than previous interventions, but it is just a cover for the goals of western imperialist machinations.

First Nations And Allies Resist Radioactive Waste Repository

July 3, 2024 Warren Bernauer, Laura Tanguay, Elysia Petrone, and Brennain Lloyd, Canadian Dimension. Resist! Canada, climate crisis, Energy, Environment, First Nations, Fossil Fuels, Indigenous Rights, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste

On April 30, 2024, First Nations leaders organized a rally in Anemki Wequedong (Thunder Bay) to protest a proposed nuclear waste repository in northwestern Ontario between Ignace and Dryden. The speakers included representatives of Grassy Narrows First Nation, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation, Gull Bay First Nation, and Fort William First Nation. Michele Solomon, Chief of Fort William First Nation, welcomed all the participants to her traditional territory and stated that her community is “strongly opposed to the transportation of nuclear waste through our territory and we will stand by that, we will continue to stand by that, and we stand with all those who are also opposed.”

Why Housing First Failed In Canada

June 30, 2024 Laurence Braun-Woodbury, Canadian Dimension. Create! Canada, Decommodify, Homelessness, Housing, Housing First

Every day more Canadians are being pressed into homelessness. Shelters are overflowing. Tent cities are ubiquitous. Diseases more commonly associated with refugee camps have popped up with alarming frequency in inner-cities across the country. The numbers are devastating: up to 300,000 Canadians will experience homelessness this year—a substantial increase from the 235,000 who were homeless in 2016. Cities are scrambling to find solutions; sanctioned encampments, increased shelter capacity, forced removal by police. Nothing is working. It’s a crisis the federal government has been trying to solve.

The Travesty Of Listing IRGC, The Biggest Anti-Terror Force, As ‘Terrorist Entity’

June 26, 2024 Wesam Bahrani, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Canada, Iran, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Terrorism, Terrorist List

Canada’s decision to blacklist Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist entity” aligns with a series of politically motivated actions against Tehran by many Western states in recent years. This designation – of the world’s most powerful and respected anti-terror force – is not only disconnected from reality but also violates international norms by interfering with a sovereign nation. The IRGC has not only provided security for Iranians by safeguarding the country’s borders from various threats but has also protected West Asia and the world from the scourge terrorism, including that of Daesh.

Arresting Reporters Is A Crude Form Of Censorship

June 22, 2024 Jen St. Denis, The Tyee. Educate! Canada, Journalism, Press Freedom, State Repression

Press freedom advocates in Canada are calling on Quebec prosecutors to drop mischief charges against Savanna Craig, saying her arrest and charges are part of a larger trend across Canada. Craig was arrested in April while covering a pro-Palestinian protest at a Scotiabank branch in Montreal for CUTV, a university television station at Concordia University. Although she identified herself as a journalist to police and showed them her press card, she was detained along with 44 protesters. Police have now recommended mischief charges against her. “We’re very concerned about the behaviour of Montreal police towards Savanna Craig on April 15, and local law enforcement’s decision to recommend charges against her despite the evidence that she was not in violation of Canadian law at the time of her arrest,” said Katherine Jacobsen.

The Real Cowboys Of Alberta Battle Zombie Coal Mine

June 18, 2024 Mitch Anderson, DeSmog. Resist! Alberta, Canada, Drought, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, mines, Water

Ranchers in southwest Alberta are contending with one of the worst droughts on record and a dwindling mountain snowpack. However, the latest threat to critical rivers near the Crowsnest Pass is being served up not by climate change but their own provincial government — in the form of a zombie coal mine proposal on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains that simply refuses to die. The Grassy Mountain open pit mine proposal from Australian-based Northback Holdings, formerly known as Benga Resources, was rejected by both provincial and federal regulators in 2021 because the impacts from water contamination were judged to outweigh the limited benefits.

Threat Of Canadian Rail Strike Looms After Bid For Conciliation Fails

June 11, 2024 Charlotte Goldstone, The Loadstar. Resist! Canada, Railroads, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Last week’s meetings between the Teamsters union (TCRC) and Canadian National Railway (CN) were abandoned less than halfway through, as the parties refuse to see eye-to-eye. Rail workers at CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) were set to strike on 22 May, but a request from the government for the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to “review if a strike could endanger public safety” put this on pause. The CIRB process does not impact continued bargaining, and last week TCRC and CN planned three days of meetings with the participation of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services.

Source Reveals US Secret Services Enabled Jorge Glas Kidnapping

May 15, 2024 Aidan Jonah, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Canada, Ecuador, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Jorge Glas, Kidnapping, Mexico, US Imperialism

A well-placed individual speaking on the condition of anonymity has informed The Canada Files that US secret services embedded in Ecuador – through spying on Mexico’s embassy – ensured President Daniel Noboa knew of Mexico’s plan to get former Vice President Jorge Glas to Mexico after granting him political assembly, enabling Noboa to order the illegal raid on Mexico’s embassy and kidnap Glas. The kidnapping of Glas, who has faced political persecution through Ecuador’s judiciary since 2017, sparked international outrage as a blatant violation of the Vienna Convention and Mexico’s sovereignty. Mexico cut off diplomatic relations with Ecuador and has taken Ecuador to the International Court of Justice for this violation.

Canceled Canadian CCS Project Deemed ‘Not Economically Feasible’

May 12, 2024 Taylor Noakes, DeSmog. Educate! Canada, Carbon Capture, Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Energy, False Solutions

Capital Power Generation has canceled a $2.4 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at their Genesee Generating Station, claiming it is “technically viable but not economically feasible.” The project aimed to capture and sequester up to 3 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions from the Genesee Power Plant, located southwest of Edmonton, Alberta, a plant that’s in the process of being converted from coal to natural gas. Julia Levin, associate director of National Climate with Environmental Defence, characterized the cancellation as yet another failure for carbon capture.

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