Edmonton’s river valley moves closer to becoming an urban national park
by Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – On March 14, 2022 the Government of Canada announced that they were working with the city…
Environment
Two First Nations sign boreal caribou protection agreement with feds
By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) have signed an agreement…
World’s Largest Protected Boreal Forest sees major expansion
By Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The Mikisew Cree Nation is celebrating the expansion of the Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Park in Northern…
B.C. First Nations concerned with provincial logging process
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – First Nations in B.C. are concerned with the government’s old-growth deferral process, believing that the province…
Catastrophic flooding in BC will have long term detrimental impacts
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Over the past week, a major storm in B.C. has caused catastrophic flooding and mudslides within…
RCMP clashes with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders
By Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Last Friday, the RCMP forcibly entered an Indigenous resistance camp in B.C. that opposed the construction…
Indigenous COP26 delegates want to be heard by governments
By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – First Nations perspectives need to be front-and-centre in any response to the climate crisis, Indigenous delegates…
Chief Perry Bellegarde named Honorary President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
(CNW) – On November 4, in a ceremony held at Canada’s Centre for Geography and Exploration, headquarters of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Chief Perry Bellegarde was…
Feds officially kill Grassy Mine Coal Project
By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The federal government has officially put a nail in the coffin of the contentious Grassy Mountain…
Controversy surrounds the cancellation of Grassy Mountain Coal Project
by Jake Cardinal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Last month, a joint panel made up of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and the Impact…